Pope Visits Mexico's Poorest State

Pope Francis travels Monday to heavily indigenous Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state, where he will preside over a Mass conducted in three indigenous languages.  He then visits Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan where farmers in 2013 took up arms to battle the so-called Knights Templar drug cartel. On Sunday, Francis held an open air Mass for some 300,000 Roman Catholic faithful in Mexico City's gritty suburb of Ecatepec. The pontiff spoke out against the...

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