The Pope said a short phrase in one of the southern region’s native tongues in a sign of his effort to reach out to indigenous communities of the country’s poorest and least Catholic State.
Source/Credit: The Hindu
By AFP | February 16, 2016
Pope Francis asked Mexico’s indigenous population on Monday for forgiveness over the exclusion they have suffered as he led an open-air mass in native languages in impoverished Chiapas state.
The Pope said a short phrase in one of the southern region’s native tongues in a sign of his effort to reach out to indigenous communities of the country’s poorest and least Catholic State.
The Pope issued a decree allowing indigenous languages to be used during masses.
More than a quarter of Chiapas’s population speaks an indigenous language.
While Mexico is the world’s second most populous Catholic nation after Brazil, with 82 per cent of its population of 122 million identifying with the religion, only 58 per cent are loyal to the Vatican in Chiapas.
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