Pope call to stop killing

POPE Francis urged Latin America’s faithful to fight rampant violent crime against women including murder, while holding mass at the weekend in Trujillo, Peru’s largest northern city.

“I wish to invite you to combat a plague across our Latin American region: the numerous cases of violent crimes against women, from beatings to rape to murder,” the visiting pontiff told thousands in Trujillo’s main colonial-era square.

Half of the 25 countries with the greatest number of murders of women are in Latin America, according to the UN.