Pontiff meets president Enrique Peña Nieto for private talks ahead of address expected to touch on drug violence and migration: ‘He comes to give us peace’Pope Francis kicked off his first day in Mexico with a long popemobile ride past adoring crowds,launching into a day that started with tough-love speeches to the country’s political and church elite and was due to end with a silent prayer before the Virgin of Guadalupe at the largest and most significant Marian shrine in the world.
Cheers erupted as the popemobile pulled out of the residence where the pontiff was staying, and he abruptly stopped to greet elderly, and sick and disabled people who had gathered external. He handed out rosaries to the faithful in wheelchairs and embraced a young boy wearing a surgical mask.
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Source: theguardian.com