The Catholic Church in the country has added its voice to the growing concern over human trafficking cases, as it launched a campaign against this vicious crime. | kdevillaINQ /PDI
“The church can’t be passive, hence her involvement in putting a stop to this vicious crime,” he added.The Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, an advisory body of the CBCP regarding migrant concerns, had recommended to the bishops that they consecrate one Sunday of the year in behalf of trafficking victims.
The significance they now accord to this first Sunday of February is also timed with the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking on Wednesday. Born in 1869, Bakhita was a slave in her native Sudan who was eventually brought to the custody of Canossian sisters in Italy where she became a nun. She died in 1947 and was canonized in 2000, the first Black woman given that honor by the Vatican.
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