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Updated September 26, 2015 11:56:11

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Pope Francis has spent an emotionally-charged day in New York on Friday (local time) including morning prayers at the 9/11 Memorial, a drive accomplished adherent masses thronging Central Park, visiting a academy in Harlem and acclamation the Affiliated Nations.

It was in Central Park area rock-star screams for the "people's Pope" were the loudest as a army of 80,000 bodies gathered.

They waited for hours. Some alike fainted from calefaction and abridgement of food. But back Pope Francis glided through Central Park on his "Popemobile", the screams were deafening.

It was a army of tens of thousands, fatigued from all corners of the apple and affiliated in acceptance or their adulation for a baton who has transcended religious boundaries to embrace all in his reach.

"Wow. I had a wow moment," said Indira Fraser, an accountant who is not Catholic, but who took the day off assignment to bless her altogether as the plus-one of a abutting friend.

"It's my altogether treat," she laughed. "I'm not Catholic. I'm actuality because the Pope calls out for account for the association and I'm a volunteer, and additionally to attestant this history.

"He's the people's Pope, he alcove out to everyone."

She came to America 30 years ago from Guyana and, like abounding others in her amplitude of crowd, is a first-generation immigrant who has accustomed the Pope's beat to migrants.

"I got chills," breathed her friend, Marilyn Ballie from Queens who works as an auditor. She said she had chock-full activity to abbey afterwards the sex scandals that had swept the priesthood.

"He has renewed my faith," she said.

The Central Park actualization was amid the Pope's admirers with accouchement at a Catholic academy in Harlem and a accumulation at Madison Square Garden.

Waving chicken and white Vatican flags, some dressed in "I adulation Pope Francis" T-shirts, others bouncing the colours of South American countries, they came calm in a carnival-like atmosphere.

One brace wore Argentine civic football shirts and added the country's dejected and white banderole to the metal railings.

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All owed their abode to acceptable two spots in an online lottery.

Many were immigrants from Latin America who said they acquainted a appropriate affiliation to Francis, the aboriginal Pope from the continent.

Earlier, Francis was accustomed in song and amusement on a acquiescently affecting appointment to a Catholic academy in New York's East Harlem neighbourhood.

Beaming and relaxed, alike appointment to a selfie or two, the Pope — who is already a anniversary into an agonizingly arranged American bout — seemed to appear animate during the hour he spent with the accouchement at Our Lady, Queen of Angels school.

Flag-waving acceptance chanted "Holy Father, we adulation you!" as the Pope lingered animated and acquisitive hands, afore branch central the academy to a acceptable from a choir of its abundantly atramentous and Latino students.

Holding easily and affectionately patting heads, the Argentine abbey toured the classroom chatting in Spanish, afore affair with a accumulation of casual workers and their families who presented him with ability including a book affairs calm their assorted activity belief and a set of accoutrement on account of the Big Apple's army of day labourers.

Earlier, Pope Francis led prayers for accord during his affecting appointment to the 9/11 Memorial.

The arch of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics paid accolade to the victims and those who responded to the affliction attacks on US clay that dead about 3,000 bodies on September 11, 2001.

The 78-year-old Argentine batten to ancestors of victims and aboriginal responders who fell in service, afore arch a multi-faith adoration for apple accord and a atramentous moment of silence.

"In this abode of affliction and afterthought I am abounding of achievement because of the befalling of abutting the leaders apery so abounding religious traditions in the activity of this abundant city," he said.

"I achievement our attendance actuality sends a able assurance of our ambition to allotment and acknowledge the ambition to be armament of reconciliation, armament of peace, of justice," he told a acquisition of 700 people.

Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Greek Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish leaders additionally offered meditations from the rostrum.

It was the additional assurance on a arranged agenda for the visibly beat Pope.

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At the alpha of the day, in his abode to the UN, the Pope apprenticed a added accommodating all-around arrangement that respects the poor and the environment, and criticised the bread-and-butter order.

The pontiff, whose reform-minded access has won him a activation all-around afterward alike from non-believers, offered his eyes of a bigger apple on his latest stop of a US bout that has brought bags to the streets to acceptable him.

Taking the UN rostrum, the baton of the world's added than 1 billion Catholics alleged for ameliorate to all-around bodies, including the UN Security Council and banking lenders, to "limit every affectionate of bribery and usury".

In a complete speech, Pope Francis afflicted on an arrangement of hot-button topics, including the animality of Christians, the Iran nuclear deal, biologic trafficking "silently killing millions" and the rights of girls to an education.

"The all-embracing banking agencies should affliction for the acceptable development of countries and should ensure that they are not subjected to backbreaking lending systems which, far from announcement progress, accountable bodies to mechanisms which accomplish greater poverty, exclusion and dependence," he said.

The pontiff, the aboriginal Latin American pope, hails from Argentina — area bread-and-butter crises accept fuelled criticism of the altitude set by the All-embracing Monetary Fund and added institutions.

He additionally gave his latest amorous appeal to assure the environment, as he accurate aplomb that a high-stakes UN appointment on altitude change would ability a "fundamental and effective" acceding in Paris in December.

Reaffirming a "right to the environment," the pontiff, 78, said that the cosmos was "the bake-apple of a admiring accommodation by the Creator" and that altruism "is not authorised to bribery it, abundant beneath to abort it".

"A egocentric and great appetite for ability and actual abundance leads both to the abusage of accessible accustomed assets and to the exclusion of the anemic and disadvantaged," he said.

The poor book affliction because they are "forced to alive off what is alone and ache unjustly from the bribery of the environment", he said.

During his UN address, Pope Francis appealed for accord about the apple and fabricated his latest appeal for the aegis of Christians, as able-bodied as others, afflicted by extremists in Syria and Iraq.

He offered a able endorsement of Iran's acceding with the US and bristles added apple admiral to complete its nuclear program, a day afterwards speaking to the US Congress, area abounding assembly angrily argue the deal.

"[The Iran agreement] is affidavit of the abeyant of political goodwill, acclimatized with sincerity, backbone and constancy," the Pope said.

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"I accurate my achievement that this acceding will be abiding and efficacious, and accompany alternating the adapted fruits with the cooperation of all the parties involved."

He aloof some of his arch words for biologic trafficking, a affliction that has abnormally afflicted Latin America.

The abbey declared biologic trafficking as a battle that is "not consistently so open, yet is silently killing millions of people".

"Drug trafficking is by its actual attributes accompanied by trafficking in persons, money laundering, the accoutrements trade, adolescent bribery and added forms of corruption," he said.

Pope Francis warned that trafficking had extensive accident and, "in abounding cases, has accustomed acceleration to a alongside anatomy which threatens the believability of our institutions".

The Pope, who was called in 2013, has won an almighty ardent afterward alike amid non-Catholics for his embrace of causes such as altitude change and about-face abroad from a adamant focus on amusing issues.

In one acknowledgment that shaped opinions aboriginal in his papacy, he said of gay priests: "Who am I to judge?"

But at the Affiliated Nations, he signalled that the Abbey was not accessible to best transgender rights, an affair that has fatigued growing absorption in the US as adequation for homosexuals becomes mainstream.

"The defence of the ambiance and the action adjoin exclusion appeal that we recognise a moral law accounting into animal attributes itself, one which includes the accustomed aberration amid man and woman and complete account for activity in all its stages and dimensions," he said.

AFP

Topics: religion-and-beliefs, human, united-states

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