The Vatican has just announced the first overseas trip that Pope Francis will make in 2018. In the January of that year, he is going to Chile and Peru. In Chile, he will visit the capital, Santiago, as well as the cities of Iquique (in the far north of the country) and Temuco (in the south). In Peru, he will take in the capital Lima, as well as the cities of Puerto Maldonado and Trujillo.

This coming September he is going to Colombia. Thus, by this coming January, he will have visited most of the countries in Latin America, having taken in Brazil in 2013, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay in 2014, Cuba in 2015 and Mexico in 2016.