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Mexico’s President is Asking for an Apology from King Felipe VI and the Pope 500 Years After Historical Conquest

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8. The Pope Attracted Large Crowds of Indigenous Peoples

Pope Francis held mass in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City in 2016. Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Tico Times.

Chiapas State is one of the least-Catholic areas of Mexico, and it has high populations of indigenous peoples. He held an open-air mass there, which was attended by tens of thousands of people, many of the indigenous. Indigenous women read Bible passages in their own native languages, something that they were previously not allowed to do because the Vatican did not permit their languages.

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