VATICAN CITY : Pope Francis’s weekly normal viewers on the Vatican on Wednesday (Aug 7) was briefly interrupted by two girls from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up indicators towards bullfighting.
The ladies walked down an aisle within the Vatican’s Paul VI corridor holding indicators written in Spanish and English saying, “Bullfighting is a sin.”
They had been shortly escorted out of the venue by safety officers.
Pope Francis was holding his first normal viewers on Wednesday after a month-long summer season break throughout July. The occasion was going down within the Vatican’s viewers corridor, as a substitute of St Peter’s Sq., due to the excessive warmth in Rome.
The 2 girls wore shirts figuring out them as a part of the Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA) organisation. It was a minimum of the second protest by individuals affiliated with the group at a papal occasion this 12 months.
In January, two girls held an identical protest about bullfighting throughout a prayer service that includes the pope at Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Exterior the Partitions.
The activists contend that some Catholic monks supply blessings to native bullfighters.
Pope Francis, who has made safety of the setting a signature a part of his 11-year papacy, isn’t identified to have commented on the difficulty. However one among his predecessors, the Sixteenth-century Pope Pius V, did outlaw bullfighting, calling the apply “higher suited to demons moderately than males”.
