The Vatican has adduced reasons
why the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis recently paid an unscheduled visit to
rehabilitation home for some 20 former prostitutes in Rome, reports ITRealms.
The women, ITRealms gathered were
rescued from their brothels and are now on sheltered protection in a cottage run
by a Catholic charity in the Roman capital, Italy.
A report by the BBC.com quoted
the Vatican source as saying that the impromptu visit to the cottage under the
term “the Pope’s Fridays of Mercy”, focused on communities that have
experienced suffering.
Also, Vatican said the pontiff conversed
with the women for over an hour; who were trafficked from Africa and other
parts of developing countries into Europe, comprising seven Nigerians, six Romanians and four Albanians, and
listened to their stories of forced prostitution.
ITRealms reports that the
79-year-old Pontiff had insisted that human trafficking is a “crime against
humanity.”
Other three in the group came
from Italy, Tunisia and the Ukraine. They were all aged about 30 and had
“suffered serious physical abuse” and now lived under protection, the Vatican
said.
Pope Francis encouraged the
former sex workers “to be strong” as they started their new lives with the help
of the Pope John XXIII Community.
Pix: Vatican News
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