VATICAN CITY
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday condemned female mutilation and domestic violence against women, calling them degradations that had to be combated.
“The many forms of slavery, the commercialisation, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought and sold …,” he told a meeting on women’s issues hosted by the Vatican’s Council for Culture.
According to the United Nations, more than 140 million girls and women have undergone some form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) around the world, mostly in Africa and the Middle East.
He also denounced domestic violence against women.
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