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February 7, 2019

To ignore human trafficking is to be complicit, Pope Francis says

Migrants, intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, walk after disembarking from a rescue boat Jan. 15, 2019, at the port of Malaga, Spain. Some 170 migrants were believed to have drowned in the sea in two separate shipwrecks in mid-January. "They were seeking a future" and "perhaps were victims of human trafficking," Pope Francis said during his Angelus prayer Jan. 20.
VATICAN – To be indifferent to or ignore human trafficking and modern-day slavery would be to become an accomplice to those crimes, Pope Francis said.
Published in International