Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Pope Francis performed an impromptu wedding ceremony for a flight attendant couple while aboard the papal plane on its way between cities in Chile.
Flight attendants Paula Podest Ruiz, 39, and Carlos Ciuffardi Elorriga, 41, told Pope Francis they had been married in a civil service, but were unable to conduct a religious ceremony after their Chilean capital, Santiago, was damaged in an earthquake in 2010.