Overview
- Pope León XIV held a private audience with Peru’s judiciary chief Janet Tello in the Vatican and sent blessings to Peru, urging the next government to govern for all with priority on the most vulnerable.
- Her visit coincided with a Pontifical Academy workshop on climate-resilience laws, where she presented Peru’s court policies and rulings on environmental protection.
- She described itinerant justice that sends judges to remote coastal, highland, and Amazon communities so people far from courts can access legal services.
- She outlined court-ordered repairs for environmental harm and resocialization programs in which people with minor convictions perform community work tied to environmental recovery.
- She gave the Pope a book on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and media said a possible papal trip to Peru was discussed though no visit has been confirmed.