The Nina Maria day care center is one of many projects run by the Diocese of Cucuta to help Venezuelan migrants, who are leaving their country to escape poverty, violence and an increasingly authoritarian government.

Venezuelan migrants and refugees have ended up mostly in nearby countries like Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where governments have struggled to provide them with basic services.

“The pope is an Argentinian concerned for his fatherland and for his people. He loves the Argentinians very much.”

Catholics who work in the Amazon say members of small, isolated villages believe the church could be more present in their lives if it allowed the ordination of married men.

A visit to the pope’s old haunts.

The Bolivia Child Welfare Agency estimated that in 2014, there were 14,000 cases of rape of children and women nationally.