00:00Poplia, the 14th on Tuesday, called on Equatorial Guinea to commit itself to the service of law and justice
00:07on the first day of its visit to the authoritarian nation,
00:10widely seen as one of Africa's most isolated states and frequently criticized for human rights violations.
00:19May your country not hesitate to evaluate its own paths of development
00:23and the positive opportunities of positioning itself on the international stage in the service of law and justice.
00:32The leader of the global Catholic community expressed sorrow that the divide between a small minority of the population
00:39and the vast majority has dramatically increased.
00:44Drawing a parallel between our contemporary era and the times of Poplia XIII's Rerum Novaro,
00:53I have previously emphasized that exclusion is the new face of social injustice.
00:59The gap between a small minority, 1% of the population, and the overwhelming majority has widened dramatically.
01:11The U.S.-born pontiff arrived in the Spanish-speaking country
01:15as part of the final leg of his extensive 11-day tour across the continent.
01:21the U.S.-born
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