Pope Heads To Chile Indigenous Area After Churches Burned

By NICOLE WINFIELD and PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 2:21am

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Looking to put Chile's sex abuse scandal behind him, Pope Francis dives Wednesday into another divisive issue roiling the South American nation: the plight of the indigenous Mapuche and their long-running conflicts with government authorities. In an ominous reminder of how the centuries-long conflict has occasionally erupted in violence, two Catholic churches were torched in the Araucania region on the eve of Francis' arrival — one burned to the ground.

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