Mexico: Mexico’s President published an open letter to Pope Francis calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s.

In the letter published on Saturday, Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also asks the Pope to lend Mexico ancient pre-Hispanic Mexican or colonial- era documents. The Church, the Spanish Monarchy and the Mexican Government should make a public apology for the offence atrocities that indigenous people suffered, the letter states.

Obrador asked the Pope to make a statement in favour of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico’s 19^th century Independence leader who was once believed to have been excommunicated by the Church for his involvement in the apprising.

But, researches later said it appeared that Hidalgo has confessed his sins before he was executed.