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AFP
Tens of thousands of faithful bearing candles prayed at an Easter ritual at Rome’s ancient Colosseum on Friday, where they and Pope Francis were told of the suffering of rejected migrants, sexually abused children and slaves.
Security was tight at the former gladiator battle ground, where a small group of believers carried a cross between 14 “stations” evoking the last hours of Jesus’s life during the traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession.
Francis, 79, sat under a red canopy next to a large cross as he listened gravely to a lengthy meditation written by Italian Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti. …
The archbishop also denounced “the wounds of children desecrated in their intimacy” through paedophilia, and the fate of women who become “objects of exploitation”.
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