Ecatepec (Mexico): Pope Francis urged Mexicans to reject the devil and build a nation free of “merchants of death” during an open-air mass with 300,000 people in a crime-ridden city.
The pontiff used the service in Ecatepec, a rough Mexico City suburb, to touch on two major themes of his trip to Mexico — drug violence and the plight of migrants.
The pope urged his flock to turn Mexico into a “land of opportunity,” where “there will be no need to emigrate in order to dream” and where they will “not have to mourn men and women, young people and children who are destroyed at the hands of the merchants of death.”
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