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Morales, a prominent member of South America’s leftist bloc and one of the region’s most popular leaders, told Reuters in an interview he had sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama but had not received a response.

Twenty-five delegates of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, or CONAIE, attended an invitation-only gathering Tuesday evening that included business leaders, and cultural and sports figures.

Francis started his last full day in Ecuador by saying an open-air Mass for almost a million people on the grounds of a former airport in the capital, Quito.

“It’s wonderful that the pope really knows us”, said Raquel Amarilla, 39, who cried throughout the Mass and was accompanied by her 13-year-old daughter.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez flew in to attend the mass along with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes.

In this Wednesday, July 8, 2015 photo, Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia. He also made numerous historical pronouncements and railed against ideologies.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – President Evo Morales is a huge fan of Pope Francis, and says he couldn’t be happier they are of the same mind that capitalism promotes social inequalities that leave the poor by the wayside. The city he’s just left, Quito, Ecuador, is...

Francis said such cowardice is “a grave sin”.

Each statue is progressively degraded and broken, and less recognizable as a man. On the top step, there simply stands a pair of damaged feet: humanism has triumphed; humanity has been destroyed.

The Pope gave a speech to the deleg…

Three inmates told Pope Francis of their tribulations inside the prison.

Since his election in 2013, the first pope from Latin America has often spoken out in defense of the poor and against unbridled capitalism but the speech in this Bolivian city was the most comprehensive to date on the issues he has championed.

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.

Morales then hung a pouch around Francis’ neck, woven of alpaca with indigenous trimmings.

As already its previous predecessor John Paul II., Francis asked the original inhabitants of America for all crimes committed during the colonial period in the name of the Church for forgiveness.