Pope denounces 'scourge' of human trafficking and slavery

[Victoria33]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-trafficking/pope-denounces-scourge-of-human-trafficking-and-slavery-idUSKCN1PZ0GQ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged governments on Sunday to take decisive action against the $150 billion-a-year human trafficking business and the plight of millions of modern-day slaves.

Francis was addressing tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square two days after the Roman Catholic Church marked an annual day of prayer and awareness over human trafficking.

And this, he evoked that we ask for intercession from St. Bakhita, a Saint from Sudan. So, I think he did well and she was the Saint of the day, yesterday I believe.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...akhita-for-the-end-of-human-trafficking-75927

I applaud him. I think all of this is very honorable. The Saint was a slave at one time but not here in the USA.

St. Josephine Bakhita - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know ...

www.catholic.org

Biography.