"The most common abuses that we are documenting and hearing about … are torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions.”

“We make unity by walking together,” Pope Francis told the Patriarch of Moscow.

Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill walked towards each other smiling as they met for the first time ever.

His advice for new bishops: “Start off very slowly, listen deeply to your people...‘Be’ with them!”

The pope will arrive in Cuba at 2 p.m. local time, then continue on to Mexico City.

More Mexicans remain tied to their Catholic faith compared with people in many other Latin American countries.