Francisco: free women from slavery to prostitution

When one of the Fridays of Mercy, during the Extraordinary Holy Year, I entered the house of Pope John XXIII's Community, I did not think that I would find women so humiliated, afflicted and exhausted. Women really crucified. In the room where I found the girls released from forced prostitution traffic, I breathed all the pain, injustice and the effect of oppression. An opportunity to relive the wounds of Christ. After hearing the poignant and very human stories of these poor women, some of them with the child in their arms, I felt a strong desire, almost a need to apologize for the real tortures they suffered. customers, many of whom are defined Christians. One more impetus to pray for the reception of victims of trafficking for the purposes of forced prostitution and violence.

A person can never be put on sale. That is why I am happy to be able to publicize the valuable and courageous rescue and rehabilitation work that Don Aldo Buonaiuto has been doing for many years, following the charisma of Oreste Benzi. It also implies a willingness to expose oneself to the dangers and reprisals of crime that have turned these girls into an inexhaustible source of illicit and shameful profits.

I would like this book to be heard as much as possible, so that, knowing the stories behind the scandalous traffic figures, we can understand that without putting an end to such a high demand from the customers, the farm can not be effectively tested. and the humiliation of innocent lives.

Corruption is a disease that is not limited to itself, it serves as a level of individual and collective consciousness, as well as a church, to truly help our unhappy sisters and to prevent the wickedness of the world from falling upon the living beings. more fragile and more fragile. Defenseless creatures. Any form of prostitution is a reduction of slavery, a criminal act, a disgusting vice that confuses love and detoxification by torturing a defenseless woman.

It is an injury to the collective consciousness, a deviation from the current imaginary. The mentality according to which a woman must be exploited as if it was a commodity to use and then to discard is pathological. It is a disease of humanity, a wrong way of thinking of society. The liberation of these poor slaves is a gesture of mercy and a duty for all men of good will. His cry of pain can not leave indifferent individuals or institutions. No one should turn on the other side or wash their hands with the innocent blood shed on the roads of the world.

Francisco