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Pope calls for action to stop human trafficking

From Times Online
April 5, 2009


(Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI said human trafficking urgently needed to be addressed

Richard Owen, Rome

Pope Benedict XVI today called for urgent global action to halt human trafficking, recalling last week's tragedy when more than 200 migrants heading for Europe drowned off the Libyan coast after their overloaded boat capsized.

"We cannot resign ourselves to such tragedies, which unfortunately have been repeating themselves for some time," Pope Benedict said at Angelus prayers after his Palm Sunday Mass on St Peter's Square. He described the victims as "our African brothers and sisters".

"The scope of the problem requires urgent strategies co-ordinated by the European Union and African countries, as well as the adoption of adequate humanitarian measures to prevent these migrants from going to unscrupulous traffickers," the Pope declared.
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