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Pope Francis spoke about immigration during his visit to Mexico.

The pope delivered a mass directed at migrants in Ciudad Juárez — a town so close to the U.S.-Mexico border that you can see El Paso, Texas — who are punished both by violent conditions at home and hostile attitudes abroad, BuzzFeed News’ Karla Zabludovsky reports from Mexico. Francis’s stage was set up close to the border so people from both sides could see him.

Thousands of Central American migrants, many of them unaccompanied minors, have crossed through a hyper-violent Mexico and into the U.S. since 2014.

The pope also met with about 800 inmates at a prison in Ciudad Juárez. “The pope’s meeting with inmates follows a week in which he addressed those who live on the fringes of society — the impoverished and indigenous, in particular — while berating members of the church who have become corrupt and self-serving,” Zabludovsky writes.

People waited in line to attend Pope Francis’s mass.

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And a little extra.

Pope Francis’s visit to Mexico comes at a time when the Catholic Church is rapidly losing members, Zabludovsky writes. The number of Catholics in Mexico has steadily decreased over the years. In the state where Ciudad Juárez is located, 76% of the 3.4 million residents are Catholic, Zabludovsky writes.

Libya is a fragmented mess and there’s no easy way to intervene.

Five years after the uprising against former leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, the oil-rich, North African country is in chaos. There are three competing governments, numerous assorted militias, and ISIS has taken over large parts of the country.

A civil war has been raging in the country for 21 months. Western governments are weighing up military intervention to fight ISIS, but there are no viable partners on the ground, BuzzFeed News’ Borzou Daragahi reports from Libya.

Wreckage left behind after a car bomb attack in Misrata, Libya.

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Today Libya is the ultimate failed state. “Electricity sputters in and out every few hours, running water frequently shuts off, and schools and hospitals bleed staff abroad, as medics join the tens of thousands sheltering in Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and the Arabian Peninsula,” Daragahi writes. In this mess, the Libyan branch of ISIS — which declared itself in 2015 — has established the country as a destination for recruits who are unable to make their way to Syria or Iraq.

At least 28 people were killed and 61 others injured in an explosion in Turkey’s capital, Ankara.

The explosion occurred during the city’s rush hour on Wednesday and is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Turkey over the past year, including one by a suicide bomber in January that killed 10 tourists, BuzzFeed News reports.

And a little extra.

Nine people have been arrested since Wednesday evening’s blast, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. Davutoglu said the blast was carried out by a Syrian national with links to Syrian Kurdish militia and that authorities believe he collaborated with Turkey’s Kurdish rebels to carry out the attack.

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