Pope Francis urges care for environment

Pope Francis flew to Bolivia after drawing about 1.5m people to Masses in Ecuador on the first leg of a “homecoming” tour, where he urged the world to take better care of the environment and the poor.

The Argentine-born pontiff spent his last few hours at a home for the elderly in Ecuador’s highland capital Quito and a shrine just outside the city where he met priests, nuns and seminarians.

He then fly to high-altitude La Paz, in Bolivia.