Pope Francis has not granted a request from the Catholic bishops of the Amazon to allow for the priestly ordination of married men in their territories in order to address a severe lack of ministers across the nine-nation region.

Pope Francis denounces in perhaps his strongest terms yet the unrestrained development in the Amazon that he says destroys one of the planet's critical ecosystems and disenfranchises its indigenous peoples.

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