Pope Francis embraced Mexico’s poor indigenous south on Monday, denouncing the people’s “systemic” exclusion from society and encouraging the use of native languages in Catholic worship in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions.

Francis courts indigenous Mexicans
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