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'DJ Priest' Mixes Religion and Rave in Buenos Aires Tribute to Pope Francis
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His career as a DJ began in 2016 to raise funds for his community, but his popularity reached a global level at the World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023.
Argentina: Buenos Aires mixes faith and techno in tribute to Pope Francis
Argentina marked one year since Pope Francis’s death on Friday 18 April 2026 with a large open air tribute in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires. A DJ priest led the tribute, mixing electronic music with messages of peace. The gathering drew large crowds.
The iconic Place de Mai, broken at the major political demonstrations, turned for more than two hours into a gigantic rave with several tens of thousands of participants.
Several blocks away from Plaza de Mayo, in the center of Buenos Aires, the music was already rumbling from early hours of Saturday night. Hundreds of thousands of people were walking with their glasses of Fernet with Coca-Cola in their hand as the endless rows for the portable baths augured long waits. The surrounding streets had closed to create an atmosphere of festival in which nothing was what it seemed. At the bottom, on the screen of the s…
The Portuguese priest Guilherme Peixoto led a show in Plaza de Mayo that combined electronic music and prayers in homage to Pope Francis, with more than 120,000 attendees. The proposal included videos, images and phrases of the late high priest and had the intervention of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge García Cuerva, who addressed a message to the public.The beginning of the show was marked by the projection of a video that reviewed the h…
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