Leaders in Mexico are reacting to the news of Pope Francis’s death.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum extended her condolences to Catholics in Mexico during her morning press conference in the hours after the death of the pope.
“But also to non-Catholics, Pope Francis was a humanist,” Sheinbaum said, calling him a man who was always on the side of the poor. Sheinbaum comes from a secular Jewish background.
The archbishop of Hermosillo called Pope Francis a “true missionary disciple” on social media.
Pope Francis was from Buenos Aires, Argentina and became the first pope from the Americas when he was named pope in 2013. He traveled to Mexico in 2016, where he visited Mexico City as well as Ciudad Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border.
He was a vocal advocate for migrants during this time as pope.
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