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Pope Francis visit to Mexico

Pope Francis urged Mexican priests and nuns on Tuesday to not despair in the face of violence as he visited a former bastion of a cult-like drug cartel.

The pontiff made his plea during a mass with tens of thousands of clergymen and seminarians at a stadium in Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan.

Michoacan endured some of the most gruesome episodes of Mexico's drug war, which has left 100,000 people dead or missing in the past decade.

Around 40 clergymen, seminarians and Catholic lay people were killed in that span, including five in Michoacan, according to the Catholic Multimedia Center. One priest celebrated mass with a bulletproof vest in Michoacan. (AFP)


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