Pope Francis Should Look East to End Poverty
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March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Philippine President Benigno Aquinofaces a huge roadblock in his push to end the poverty weighingon his 106 million people: the Catholic Church.
I was in the predominantly Catholic nation earlier thismonth when the Vatican named the first non-European as pope inmore than 1,200 years. Filipinos rejoiced in the choice of aLatin American pontiff with a passion for helping the poor. One-fifth of Filipinos live in slum conditions even as the economygrows 6.8 percent.