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Their shared views on the need for wealthy countries to drastically change course to address climate change bump up against Morales’ anti-clerical initiatives that have roiled relations with the local church. But he has alienated lowlands natives by promoting a highway...

Espinal, a follower of the left-wing liberation theology, was kidnapped and tortured by Bolivia’s right-wing regime before his body was dumped on a highway in La Paz.

House Speaker John Boehner announced Wednesday that the speech to be delivered by Pope Francis to a joint session of Congress on September 24 will be broadcast live on a huge screen in front of the Capitol, given the “historic” nature of the occasion.

Francis, the first Latin American pope, will become the first pontiff to address a joint session of the US Congress during the much anticipated September 19-27 trip.

Pope Francis went on to celebrates a Mass for families in Guayaquil Samanes Park. Those services are not a type of alms, but rather a genuine “social debt” with respect to the institution of the family, which contributes so greatly to the common good.

Across the park, Ecuadoran national flags and papal banners waved above the enormous sea of people, cheering, “Francisco!”

Francis’ stops later in the week include a violent Bolivian prison, a flood-prone Paraguayan shantytown and a meeting with grass-roots groups in Bolivia, the sort of people he ministered to in the slums of Buenos Aires.