been set up though banners welcoming pope francis to peru are seen in lima jan 13 2018 pope francis will visit the cities of puerto maldonado trujillo and lima between jan 18 and 21 ernesto benavidesafpgetty images on his last day in chile before traveling on to peru the pope is scheduled to meet two victims of the countrys military dictatorship under the late augusto pinochet burke the vatican spokesman did not say who they were or why they were chosen but said they will present a letter to pope francis during the meeting tens of thousands of people were killed tortured or imprisoned for political reasons in chile during pinochets reign and many others went into exile a police officer patrols in front of a banner reading pope francis welcome to la araucania ahead of the papal visit in temuco chile jan 14 2018 edgard garridoreuters sex abuse cases have hurt the churchs reputation in peru too last week the vatican announced it had taken over a perubased catholic movement sodalitium christianae vitae whose founder was accused of sexual and psychological abuse the conservative movement has about 20000 members throughout south america and the us banners welcoming pope francis to peru are seen in lima jan 13 2018 pope francis will visit the cities of puerto maldonado trujillo and lima between jan 18 and 21 ernesto benavidesafpgetty images meanwhile pope francis will not be visiting argentia drawing great speculation and questions asked why the pope will be returning to south america for the sixth time but has still not been back as pope to argentina burke cited personal reasons he added however that the popes plane will fly over the country and that the pope is expected to issue a significant message to his native land argentina will not be sending any special representative to neighboring chile for his visit but up to 1 million argentine pilgrims are expected to cross the border to catch a glimpse of their native son members of a lay community hold banners reading osorno suffer as they gather at a rally against osornos city bishop juan barros accused of covering up a religious show more ristobal saavedra vogelreuters this will be the popes first foreign trip in 2018 future trips have yet to be announced officially but a visit to ireland in august is being planned vatican officials are studying the possibility of at least another trip this year possibly to the baltics or asia