A woman holds up an Ecuadorian national flag in a crowd of thousands waiting in the Samanes Park for the start of an outdoor Mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Monday, July 6, 2015. Francis chose to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay specifically because they are among the poorest and most marginal nations of a region that claims 40 percent of the world's Catholics. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara), APTOPIX