Trafficking of Africans: across the Sinai desert...

(Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick recenly met up with Sister Azezet Kidane while accompanying Bishops from Euope and North America on an annual fact finding visit to the Holy Land. A visit which this year focused in a special way on suffering and vulnerbale people.

Sister Azezet is a Comboni sister who has made it her mission in life to minister to African migrants crossing the Sinai desert into Israel. Migrants who are forced into what she calls "modern slavery" and the object of a lucrative business. Slaves who are subjected to all kinds of horrors such as rape and torture.

A tragic reality everyone knows about, sister Azezet insists, but nobody does anything about ...

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