Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 4, 2008 / 21:03 pm
The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, warned against the modern forms of slavery and exploitation during a Mass this week for immigrants, women involved in prostitution and victims of slave labor.
During the Mass, which commemorated the anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and was held at the shrine of Our Lady of Immigrants in Buenos Aires, Cardinal Bergoglio pointed to the need to work for ending modern-day forms of slavery. “Our country shelters slave traders: men and women who buy and sell people. Men and women who act at the same as those Egyptian foremen did with the Israelites: they beat them, the make them work more, the take away their papers so they cannot travel about. You all know about this,” the cardinal said.