By Nathan Gill
(Bloomberg) — Pope Francis, the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church, called for unity and greater respect for diversity Tuesday during a mass in Quito, where thousands camped overnight in the rain to hear the pontiff speak.
“There was no shortage of conviction or strength in that cry for freedom which arose a little more than two hundred years ago,” Francis told about 1 million people gathered in Quito’s Bicentennial Park. “But history tells us that it only made headway once personal differences were set aside, together with the desire for power and the inability to appreciate other movements of liberation.”
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