At UN, Vatican envoy calls for action against drug trade, human trafficking
October 09, 2015
In an October 8 address to the UN on the issue of crime, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s representative, emphasized the need to fight illegal drug trade and human trafficking.
“Illicit drug abuse destroys the social fabric of individual families, which metastasizes to the community, and leads ultimately to the destabilization of civil society,” the Vatican envoy said. He cited the worlds of Pope Francis, in an address to international drug-enforcement officials: “Drugs are evil, and with evil there can be neither surrender nor compromise.”
The archbishop went on to say that the Holy See “cannot express strongly enough its grief and concern regarding the abomination of trafficking in persons.”
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