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Mexican president asks Pope Francis for conquest apology

| October 10, 2020 4:09 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s.

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