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Pope slams slave labor

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Pope Francis. Screengrab from youtube.com/vaticanPope Francis, speaking at a Mass on Wednesday, condemned the exploitation of workers and slave labor, in a subtle reference to the tragedy in a Bangladeshi garments factory. “Not paying a just (wage), not providing work, focusing exclusively on the balance books, on financial statements, only looking at making personal profit. That goes against God!” he said, quoted on the Vatican Radio website. A week after a garment factory collapsed in the outskirts of Dhaka, the death toll has risen to over 400. CNN reported workers are gradually picking up the debris and huge slabs of concrete. They continue to find and remove bodies, many of them decomposed and difficult to recognize.


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