He again wore a sombrero when addressing worshippers congregated outside Colegio de Miraflores on the last night of his visit.

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The passion for learning about social and environmental issues in other cultures and educating youth led me to teach high school Environmental Systems for two years at Colegio Americano in Quito, Ecuador.

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Roberto Blancarte, a sociologist of religion at the Colegio de Mexico, points out that in Chiapas, a state with a high proportion of indigenous people, almost 14% of the population is now Protestant.

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Professor Monica Serrano from the Colegio de Mexico, a university in Mexico City, says the cartels' use of threats and extortion to boost funds is forcing people to leave their homes and in many cases make themselves "disappear".

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Cuando vino por primera vez a mi pais yo estaba cursando 6to grado de primaria y recuerdo que conocimos su vida, su obra en el Colegio, recuerdo las imagenes en television y lo que me venia a la mente era bondad, amistad y paz, algo que vivi cuando lo vi en su segunda visita: la paz que contagiaba era increible.

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