“It’s a disgrace” that people are treated “as objects, deceived, raped, often sold many times for different purposes and, in the end, killed or, in any case, physically and mentally damaged, ending up thrown away and abandoned,” he said.
The Pope made the comments in a speech earlier today to 17 new ambassadors to the Vatican who were presenting their letters of credential to the Pontiff. Among the 17 were ambassadors representing the state of Palestine, Kuwait, Sierra Leone and Iceland.
Speaking to the group of diplomats, the Pope dedicated his entire talk to human trafficking because, he said, it is “an issue that worries me very much and today is threatening people’s dignity.”
Every country in the world is touched in some way by this new form of slavery, which often targets the most vulnerable members of society: women, children, the disabled, the poor and people from broken homes or other difficult situations, he said. (more...)
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