Pope offers words of peace amid violence in Chile
by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
Jan 18, 2018
3 minutes
TEMUCO, Chile - Pope Francis brought a message of peace and reconciliation Wednesday to a picturesque area of central Chile that has experienced a rash of violence attributed to indigenous Mapuche activists struggling to reclaim ancestral lands.
In the third day of his swing through Chile, Francis flew to the city of Temuco, 420 miles south of the capital, Santiago, in the heavily forested Araucania region.
"We have to insist that a culture of mutual esteem may not be based on acts of
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