>>9421
He's trying to do an bigger embrace of the third world, especially with his focus on the "poor and underprivileged". The Church has done stuff like this for a while, as far back as the 1600s when Spanish Church officials got angry about the treatment of natives in the New World.
This might ruffle some feathers, but think of religion like a company or business for a moment. Christianity is dying in the west, it's more pronounced in Europe, but it's also occurring in the US in a major way. When your "market" of believers dries up, you need to find a new one, found in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Christianity's embrace of universalism and egalitarianism doesn't help in that aspect either.