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BY PAULO WINTERSTEIN AND JOHN LYONS
GUARATIBA, Brazil—With the World Cup and Olympics approaching fast, Rio de Janeiro’s track record for hosting global events faced a new low in this muddy field outside the city, where Pope Francis was to give mass for one million faithful Sunday at the end of a weeklong Brazil trip.
Event organizers late Thursday relocated the mass to Rio’s Copacabana beach after rains liquefied the field, called Camp Faith, making it unfit for the hundreds of thousands of worshipers who were expected to overnight here in vigil before the mass. The mucky expanse was so watery it was starting to transmit …
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