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“Also, I carry you in my heart and pray for you and for your country”, were the words the pontiff uttered to the assembled throng at the close of the Mass.

Consumers are urged not to respond to any solicitation about purchasing tickets for the papal visit.

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...

Later Saturday, the pope spoke to grass-roots organizations, continuing his message of inclusiveness and heeding the call of the poor. Cazal is legally married to an Argentine, Sergio Lopez, though their union isn’t recognized in Paraguay. He told the British newspaper the...

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.

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

In his address to the pope, Morales, who had frequently clashed with Church officials in Bolivia before relations improved when Francis was elected in 2013, welcomed the pope as a homecoming hero.

(L’Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP).

Morales hugged the pope as he descended from the Boliviana de Aviacion plane and hung a pouch around his neck of woven of alpaca with indigenous trimmings.

The pope has said he wanted the encyclical to influence a United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December and has now effectively taken his campaign to convince governments on the road. Correa’s policies on drilling for oil and mining Amazon forests have incensed...