Bolivian leader gives pope communist crucifix

Pope Francis decried what he called a genocide against Christians in the Middle East while speaking in Bolivia on Thursday. But he said Francis’ apology was particularly poignant given the setting.

“Carrying upon themselves the life, the future of their people“.

He told the assembled activists, whom he called “social poets”, that the future of humanity was to a great degree in their hands, and urged them to continue in their efforts.

In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope also asked forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic Church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest of America”.

Francis noted that Latin American church leaders in the past had acknowledged “grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God”. St. John Paul II, when he was pope, apologized to the continent’s indigenous for the “pain and suffering” caused during the 500 years of the church’s presence in the Americas during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.

He added: “I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offences of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America”.

On Wednesday he went from the oxygen-poor air of La Paz, which is more than 3,650 meters (11,975 feet) above sea level, to Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s largest and fastest-growing city, which is at 416 meters (1,365 feet).

Francis says there is a need for “a real change, a change of structures”.

Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis used the vivid image of the church as a “field hospital,” which treats those who are ailing.

His speech in Bolivia was part of a trip to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, three of South America’s poorest and smallest countries.

“Because peoples have memory, a memory that passes from generation to generation, a memory that is under way”, he said. He praised those in the Latin American indigenous peoples’ movement for embracing the mingling of cultures rather than the suppression of them.

The viewers gave Francis a standing ovation when he placed on a yellow miner’s hat that was given to him on the finish of his speech. The Vatican hosted the primary assembly final yr.

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia – Burger King has long been providing quick meals.

Thousands in the crowd were from Bolivia’s indigenous majority: Quechua, Guarani and Aymara Indians.

In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, President Morales described his relationship with Pope Francis and highlighted the importance of his message. The pope stopped and prayed at the site of the shooting on Wednesday evening.

The Vatican spokesman is the Rev. Federico Lombardi, and he said Thursday the pope had no idea that Espinal had designed such a crucifix. “Don’t expect a recipe from this pope”, he said. The government declared Thursday a national holiday so everyone could attend.

Mexican Bishop Raul Vera, who said the church was passive in the enslavement of the continent by the Spanish, said Francis’ apology was especially moving given the setting and circumstances. The restaurant was closed for business due to the Mass, in which the pope denounced consumerism.

The pontiff said that the logic of materialism results in everything becoming an object that can be bought and sold, consumed and negotiated. And while prosperity has come to some with economic growth averaging 5 per cent annually, it has “opened the door to the evil of corruption”, Francis said. “No one has to be discarded”, the pontiff told the crowd, estimated by Bolivian authorities at one million strong.

Francis had just spent more than 30 minutes in his popemobile, waving to thousands lined up on the streets of Santa Cruz.

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