ASUNCION, Paraguay: Pope Francis decried the scourge of corruption as the “gangrene of a people” in Paraguay, one of the poorest countries in South America and where graft is rampant.

The 78-year-old pope -- in Paraguay on the last stop of a three-nation tour of South America -- also railed against ideologies and hammered home the central theme of his trip to his home continent: equality.

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