Pope celebrates mass in Mexico city

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Pope celebrates mass in Mexico city

Pope Francis has together with 50,000 people, the first mass of his five-day Mexico tour to be celebrated. The worship took place in Guadalupe, where the largest Marian Shrine in the world.

Annually visit approximately 20 million people in the sanctuary. In the Basilica of the virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico city, said Francis to the Victims of violence and their families be comforted: “God, the mothers, fathers and grandparents, the experience must be like for your children, you are going to lose, or you get snatched away.”

Kidnappings are sad everyday life

In Mexico the abduction of children by drug gangs to Try and youths as gang members to recruit, the order of the day. The containment of the Drogengewalt in Mexico is one of the main concerns of the Pope.

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In Mexico rages for years a cruel war between the state and several powerful Drogensyndikaten, which are also mutually bloody battle. According to estimates in the Latin American country in the past ten years around 100 000 people due to the violence died.

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Mexico, after Brazil, the second largest Catholic community in the world. The Basilica of Guadalupe is considered as the most visited in the world after St. Peter’s in Rome. The sanctuary goes on apparitions of the virgin Mary back in the year 1531 there. Had notified you of the now heiliggesprochene Indio Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin.

A trusted Ambassador

The Pope stated that our lady had Juan Diego, as a “highly trusted ambassadors” selected to the construction of the term sanctuary to oversee, supervise and advance. Juan Diego did this task first of all want to refuse, because he not was, but the mother had insisted, emphasized the Pope, and he added: Guadalupe is the place for young people to become the no future for themselves would see and the many painful and dangerous situations.

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