Posts Tagged ‘Jose Mujica’

Pope Francis happy to meet ‘wise’ atheist

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Pope Francis has expressed pleasure at meeting “a wise man” after a private audience with the Uruguayan president, Jose Mujica, an atheist. Mujica, a former guerilla fighter, has been described as “the world’s ‘poorest’ president”. He donates 90 per cent of his salary to charities, lives with his wife in a modest farmhouse instead of Read more