Pope closes visit to Uruguay with message against gender-based violence in Latin America This Sunday, November 8, Pope Leo XIV urged men to respect their wives as he concluded the first leg of his tour of Latin America. In the last five years, almost 20,000 cases of murdered women have been recorded in the region, most of them by their spouses or ex-spouses.

Pope closes visit to Uruguay with message against gender-based violence in Latin America This Sunday, November 8, Pope Leo XIV urged men to respect their wives as he concluded the first leg of his tour of Latin America. In the last five years, almost 20,000 cases of murdered women have been recorded in the region, most of them by their spouses or ex-spouses.