PERU: Pope Francis on Saturday urged Latin America’s faithful to fight rampant violent crime against women including murder, while holding mass in Trujillo, Peru’s largest northern city. Half of the 25 countries with the greatest number of murders of women are in Latin America, according to UN Women. In Argentina, the pope’s homeland, there were at least 254 murders of women in 2016 that authorities think were gender-related, which helped spark the online campaign #NotOneMore murder. “There are so many cases of violence that stay silenced behind so many walls,” Francis said, arousing cheers from the crowd. Pope Francis, 81, arrived Thursday afternoon in Peru, the second and last leg of a week-long South American visit.

Source: New Strait Times January 21, 2018 01:07 UTC