In a lengthy (5,100 words), impassioned, and wide-ranging address to the 3rd Encuentro Mundial de Movimientos Populares (3rd World Meeting of Popular Movements), Pope Francis urged the movements to continue to advocate, through nonviolent protest, for the “three t’s” (tierra, techo, and trabajo, or land, housing, and work).
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development organized the meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Pope’s first address to popular movements. The Vatican uncharacteristically has not published any translations of the Pope’s Spanish-language address, delivered on September 20, though Vatican News did offer an English-language summary of several of its themes.
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