NEWSWATCH: “Pope Francis visits 20 women rescued from prostitution” – NewsVa
Pope Francis visited a refugee centre … as part of his ‘Friday of Mercy’ gestures during this Jubilee Year of Mercy. … Pope Francis met 20 women rescued from the sex trade … trafficked from … Romania, Albania, Nigeria, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Italy. … victims of severe physical abuse … another reminder of the need to fight against human trafficking, which the Pope has described as ‘a crime against humanity’ …. ‘an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.’
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