Corruption poses a grave threat to the people of Latin America, Pope Francis has warned.
In a letter to the Latin American bishops' council, or CELAM, meeting in El Salvador, the Pope said corruption "is one of the most serious sins that plagues our continent today."
"Corruption devastates lives by immersing them in the most extreme poverty. Corruption, which destroys entire populations by subjecting them to precariousness. Corruption that, like a cancer, consumes the daily life of our people. And there are so many of our brothers and sisters who, admirably, go out to fight," he wrote.
