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Q: Crowds meet Pope Francis at Copacabana beach event 
  
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 Pope Francis has visited Copacabana beach, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, to hold the greeting ceremony for World Youth Day. 
  
 After arriving by helicopter, the pope drove along the 4km of the beach, stopping many times to greet the crowd. 
  
 An estimated 1 million pilgrims attended the event, following a papal visit to a shanty town, or favela. 
  
 Meanwhile, bad weather has forced this weekend's events to be moved from a drenched farm on the outskirts of Rio. 
  
 A site set up at a farm on the western outskirts of the city for Saturday's vigil and Sunday's service, where up to 2 million people are expected, was covered with mud and puddles after two days of relentless rain. 
  
 The authorities have announced that these events will now also take place at Copacabana beach. 
  
 'Olympic delegations' 
  
 Hours before the Pope arrived at Copacabana on Thursday, young pilgrims started gathering along the beach. 
  
 "I've always heard that Cariocas (Rio-born people) did not like the cold or the rain. But you are showing your faith is stronger. Well done!" Pope Francis joked with the crowd at the start of his address. 
  
 Groups resembling Olympic delegations were holding up the flags of their countries and many were carrying the distinct World Youth Day backpacks in yellow, green or blue, the colours of the host-country's flag, the BBC's correspondent in Rio, Julia Carneiro, says. 
  
 Big screens were set up on the sand and the rain stopped before the event, our correspondent says. 
  
 On the fourth day of his visit to Brazil, the first international trip of his papacy, the head of the Roman Catholic church also addressed Argentine faithful in Rio's cathedral. 
  
 During the event, he told pilgrims to take to the streets and "stir things up". 
  
 The ceremony was held on Rio's iconic Copacabana beach Young people from around the world are attending the biennial festival The Pope joked about the challenging weather conditions But the worst of the rain held off for the welcoming event Continue reading the main story previous slide next slide 
  
 "I expect a messy World Youth Day. But I want things messy and stirred up in the congregations, I want you to take to the streets. I want the Church to take to the streets," the Argentine-born pontiff told the crowd. 
  
 Before the meeting with his fellow countrymen, Pope Francis blessed the new altar at a tiny church and hugged and kissed locals who crowded the Varginha community streets. 
  
 'Forgotten community' 
  
 Security was tight in the shanty town, which is part of the larger Manguinhos favela, one of the many hillside shanty towns which surround Rio. 
  
 Helicopters and sharpshooters were on patrol as Pope Francis visited the area while school children waved flags and held up balloons. 
  
 The excitement was palpable as he arrived and resident Antonieta de Souza Costa told Reuters news agency she thought the visit would "bring people back to the Catholic Church''. 
  
 Pope Francis requested a favela, or shanty town, be included in his schedule of visits 
  
 The Brazilian government has made the "pacification" of these communities, once a byword for poverty, crime and drugs, one of its priorities. 
  
 Heavily-armed police have moved into some of the more lawless favelas, including Varginha, to "flush out" the criminals and drug dealers who controlled large swathes of these communities. 
  
 Continue reading the main story At the scene Despite the heavy rain, the residents of the small Varginha favela were out early, with umbrellas and raincoats, anxiously waiting on the street where Pope Francis was to pass. People put up banners on their houses and gathered on rooftops for the best view. One resident set up a table with coffee and cups in front of his house hoping for the pontiff to stop by for a cafezinho. Soon after he arrived, Pope Francis jumped out of his Popemobile and walked along a corridor of outstretched arms on the street, stopping to bless children and babies with a kiss on the forehead. There was heavy police presence in and around Varginha, a recently "pacified" shanty-town, part of an area previously referred to as the Gaza Strip because of drug violence. As the Pope addressed the community from a stage set up on a muddy football pitch, the crowd cheered when he said no "pacification effort" would last if society ignored the poor and abandoned them to the margins - and appealed for the rich and the authorities to battle the inequality so evident in the city of Rio. 
  
 According to official estimates, more than 20% of the population of the city live in favelas. 
  
 The Pope, who has called for a "Church of the poor" and who during his time as Archbishop of Buenos Aires regularly visited some of the poorest areas of that city, specifically asked for a favela to be included in his schedule. 
  
 Locals say the government's policy of sending large numbers of police to the area has gone some way towards calming the area, but not enough. 
  
 "There is no state presence; our community was forgotten for a long time. I hope with the Pope's visit we can have some improvement," carpenter Paulo Lima told NBC news. 
  
 'Passing idols' 
  
 The visit comes just a day after Pope Francis said it was key to tackle the roots of drug abuse rather than consider legalising them. 
  
 At a Mass at the shrine of Aparecida, he also warned tens of thousands of faithful against the "passing idols" of money, power and pleasure. 
  
 "How many dealers of death there are that follow the logic of power and money at any cost," he told the congregation. 
  
 Leaders in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and others have spoken for softer stances on drugs policy. In Uruguay, a project decriminalising marijuana sale is set to be voted in Congress next week. ||||| Pope Francis has made his strongest condemnation yet of inequality when he used a visit to a Brazilian slum to denounce the "culture of selfishness" that is widening the gap between rich and poor. 
  
 The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome. 
  
 "You are often disappointed by facts that speak of corruption on the part of people who put their own interests before the common good," Francis told a crowd which had gathered on a football pitch to hear him speak. "To you and all, I repeat: never yield to discouragement, do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished. Situations can change, people can change." 
  
 Despite security concerns, the pope walked through the favela, which was once part of a region contested by drug-gangs that was so violent it was known as the Gaza Strip. 
  
 Varginha was "pacified" in January by special police units, which still maintain a presence in the community where Francis stopped to pray at a small local church. 
  
 The setting underscored the pope's focus on poor and peripheral communities, where the Catholic church has been losing followers in recent years to US-style evangelicalism. 
  
 On Thursday, the pontiff unleashed the most powerful and politically loaded rhetoric of his trip, attacking the "culture of selfishness and individualism" and urging more efforts to fight hunger and poverty. 
  
 "No amount of peace-building will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself," he said. 
  
 The throngs were largely kept at bay by security barriers, but Francis kissed babies and shook hands with well-wishers. Police helicopters buzzed overhead, and police snipers watched the crowd from rooftops. 
  
 In a mass the previous day, the pope had urged Catholics to resist the "ephemeral idols" of money, power, success and pleasure. He also waded into political waters gave a sharply worded condemnation of moves to legalise drug use during a visit on Wednesday to a rehabilitation centre in Brazil. 
  
 "A reduction in the spread and influence of drug addiction will not be achieved by a liberalisation of drug use, as is currently being proposed in various parts of Latin America," he said. 
  
 Those comments ran counter to a growing movement in Latin America to decriminalise the use of marijuana and other narcotics after decades of a murderous and largely ineffectual war against drugs in the region. 
  
 On Thursday evening, the pope drew hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to a World Youth Day mass on the Copacabana beach, which is better known for its sun worshippers. 
  
 Catholics from around the world flocked to Rio to hear and see Francis, whose visit for the WYD festival coincides with a wave of protest in Brazil over inequality, corruption, high prices and low standards of public service. A huge stage decorated with a crucifix and flanked by giant screens and speakers has been erected on the sands usually occupied by beach footballers, volleyball players and bikini-clad tourists. 
  
 On Thursday, however, the Catholic faithful who filled the area were shivering under umbrellas as Rio experienced one of its coldest and wettest winter days. The rain halted in time for the pope's procession through rapturous crowds, many carrying the flags of their countries, others in nuns' habits, monks' cassocks or wearing priests' dog collars. 
  
 "I've always heard that Cariocas (Rio-born people) did not like the cold or the rain. But you are here. Well done!" Pope Francis joked at the start of his address. 
  
 Many of those present had travelled for days by bus or plane to see a pope that they admire for his spirituality, lack of ostentation and strong emphasis on the poor. For many Brazilian Catholics, these qualities are appreciated at a time when more than a million people have taken to the streets to condemn local politicians and businessmen. 
  
 Giovana Mendes was one of those who took part in protests against what she described as "the shameful political situation". But the 17-year-old said she was filled with hope and excitement to see a Latin American pope. 
  
 "It's indescribable, marvellous. I have butterflies in my stomach. It's an amazing feeling," she said. "In my life, he is the best pope. He's for the people." 
  
 The focus of the pope's visit has been on drawing more young people into the church. Brazil is the world's most populous Catholic nation, but in recent years the Vatican has been alarmed by the rise of secularism and an exodus of worshippers to US-style evangelical groups. 
  
 In the 1980s, nearly 90% of Brazilians identified themselves as Catholic. Today, however, census data suggests only 65% do so, while 22% describe themselves as evangelical, and 10% say they are not religious. 
  
 Many expressed hope that the new pope would offer a change of style and focus that would help to reverse the decline. 
  
 "He's very humble. He likes to speak the language of young people," said Renan Maia Londrino, a 22-year-old from Paraná state. "I hope he can mobilise young people who are outside the church. This is an important moment for the entire world." 
  
 The authorities appear to have struggled with the conflicting desire of the pope to be as accessible as possible and the government's instinct to step up security at a time of heightened protest. 
  
 Another demonstration was staged on Thursday evening a few kilometres further along the coast outside the home of the unpopular Rio state governor, Sérgio Cabral, in Leblon. Protests at the same location earlier in the week were broken up with rubber bullets and teargas. 
  
 Although the pope has been careful not to take sides, the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, said her government needed to work closely with the Vatican "against a common enemy – inequality" and to do more to improve the lives of its people. 
  
 Although Francis had a somewhat conservative reputation in his home nation, Argentina, up until he was chosen as pope, his comments prior to his visit to Brazil on "savage capitalism" and the "dictatorship of the economy" heartened many on the left and those who joined the recent protests. 
  
 "The church fights with us. Pope Francisco fights with the people in these demonstrations," said Walace Luiz Herbst, a pilgrim from Brazil's Espírito Santo state. "Christ, the pope and the church won't sit quiet about injustice and inequality." 
  
 However, some demonstrators are unhappy that Brazil is reportedly spending $51m on hosting the pope. The organisation has hit occasional glitches. The Vatican announced on Thursday that the pope's schedule will have to change because the custom-built site where he was supposed to preside over Sunday mass has been waterlogged by the rain. Instead the event will take place on Copacabana beach. ||||| Side lit by a stage light Pope Francis addresses the youth gathered at the World Youth Day Welcome Feast on the Copacabana beachfront in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Francis addressed... (Associated Press) 
  
 The 76-year-old Argentine Jesuit, who lost most of one lung following an infection in his youth, has been acting like a man half his age during his first international trip as pope, adding in events at the last minute to his already full schedule and gamely going with the flow after heavy rains forced major changes in the World Youth Day agenda. 
  
 His spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, noted Thursday that such vigorous activity has been the norm at the Vatican ever since Francis came to town, saying the Vatican's usually staid bureaucrats were getting "stressed out" by his pace _ and that that was a good thing. 
  
 But he quipped: "I'm happy we're half-way through because if it were any longer I'd be destroyed." 
  
 Francis added two unscheduled events Thursday to an already full day: a morning Mass with some 300 seminarians from the region, and then a meeting at Rio's cathedral with some 30,000 Argentine pilgrims. 
  
 Asked when Francis would actually return to his home country, Lombardi revealed that there were no plans for a trip to Argentina in 2014 as had been widely expected. 
  
 Rather, he said, the pope planned to visit another continent given he had already been to Brazil in 2013 and, as he announced somewhat unexpectedly on Wednesday, would be returning in 2017 to mark the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron saint. 
  
 Lombardi didn't say which continent might get a papal visit in 2014, but mentioned Africa, Asia or the Holy Land as possibilities. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Felipe Dana / AP Policemen from Brazil's Pacifying Police Unit patrol the poor Varginha favela ahead of Pope Francis visit on Thursday. 
  
 RIO DE JANEIRO – Just a short ride away from Rio’s legendary beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana are some of the most crime-ridden slums in Latin America. Known here as favelas, they are equally legendary, but for all the wrong reasons. Pockets of relentless poverty, drugs and weapons flood streets dotted with ramshackle buildings. 
  
 Pope Francis will step into one of these neighborhoods, Varginha, in the larger Manguinhos favela, on Thursday. 
  
 Little seems to faze Pope Francis. The throngs of well-wishers who mobbed his car, overwhelming his security detail on Monday just seemed to make him smile even more broadly. And visiting Varginha's mean streets likely won't faze him either. 
  
 As the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis regularly visited the poorest, most dangerous areas of that city, and he specifically asked that Varginha be added to his schedule. An estimated 1.2 million people, or 22 percent of Rio’s population, live in favelas. 
  
 Varginha is known locally as the "Gaza Strip" for its spiraling violence between rival drug gangs. The area was recently "pacified" by police – a policy of flooding the area with heavily armed officers, both uniformed and plainclothes, to form a visible presence to disrupt and disperse criminal activity. 
  
 Officers wearing bulletproof vests patrolled the streets during a recent visit, keeping a watchful eye on the cramped apartment windows above. 
  
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 But the effort has not been entirely successful - far from it. A pitched gun battle erupted between rival gangs here just last month. 
  
 Paulo Lima, 58, a carpenter, who like most here barely ekes out a living, would like to see more police action. 
  
 "Police pacification brought some peace here, but it's not enough for us. We need much more," he said. "There is no state presence; our community was forgotten for a long time. I hope with the pope's visit we can have some improvement." 
  
 While there have been some cosmetic improvements ahead of the pope’s visit – such as paved sidewalks and the removal of trash – there is still room for much more in terms of sanitation, health care and education. A fetid river runs behind the small cinderblock church Francis will visit. 
  
 Pope Francis heads to Brazil for World Youth Day where more than one million young people are expected to gather. The high cost of the trip to the Brazilian government has stoked fears that the event will be marked by protests. NBC's Anne Thompson reports. 
  
 When it rains, the sewage-ridden waters flood the neighborhood’s streets, carrying life-threatening diseases that sicken the area's children. A new sewage system was promised, but as it often happens here, improvements have yet to arrive. 
  
 Ranger Silva, a 24-year-old student, has heard it all before. "People here are still skeptical. We need to see these changes lasting, and not only because the pope is coming." 
  
 As the Vatican's first Jesuit leader who called for a “church of the poor," the simplicity of the Capela Sao Jeronimo church Francis will visit is fitting. It's a small chapel nestled inside a box-like structure and has only 18 simple wooden pews inside. Francis is expected to speak with residents and give a blessing. 
  
 Francis' effort to reach out to the poor during his visit has been welcomed by many Brazilians - particularly in the wake of massive anti-government protests across the country last month over corruption and the run-away costs of next year’s soccer World Cup. 
  
 There were a few signs of progress and hope in Varginha. Boys in brand new team jerseys played soccer on the field where the pope will address the community – their dazzling, effortless skills would be the envy of any American suburban youth coach. 
  
 And the sounds of a rock band filtered out of the little church Francis will visit. 
  
 Anderson Braz, 19, expertly strummed his electric guitar, as the group rehearsed their upcoming performance for the pope. 
  
 "I'm nervous now," he said. "Imagine on the day – it will be pure heart, pure emotion." 
  
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Pope Francis may be 76, but that's not slowing him down: He's maintaining a schedule so busy—and getting busier—that aides are struggling to keep up, the AP reports. Yesterday, for instance, he had a full day planned in Brazil, then added two extra events, including a morning mass and a cathedral meeting with pilgrims. Vatican workers are "stressed out" by the pope's schedule, but that's not a bad thing, says rep Rev. Federico Lombardi. Still, "I'm happy we're halfway through (the trip), because if it were any longer, I'd be destroyed." Indeed, bad weather can't stop the pontiff as he celebrates World Youth Day. Yesterday saw him visiting Rio's Copacabana beach, where he was joined by some one million pilgrims despite rain beforehand, the BBC reports. That was after his visit to the slum of Varginha, where he walked on foot, the Telegraph notes. There, he called on residents not to lose hope despite corruption, as he slammed a "culture of selfishness and individualism." "No amount of peace-building will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins, or excludes a part of itself," he said, per the Guardian. "Our community was forgotten for a long time," a local carpenter told NBC News. "I hope with the pope's visit we can have some improvement."