FT reports ‘modern slavery’ in Catholic organization Opus Dei

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journalist of the publication Finance Times Antonia Kandy’s research claims that girls around the world have been forced into grueling labor by the powerful Catholic organization Opus Dei for decades.

The publication tells the story of Anne Marie Allen, one of the girls who joined the organization 46 years ago at the age of 15 at the invitation of a priest. After taking a catering course, she became one of the assistants of numinarians who devoted their lives to Opus Dei as domestic servants, in many cases doing so without pay and against their will. The figures themselves are people who have taken a vow of celibacy but have an ordinary worldly job.

Kandi points out that Allen is one of 16 assistants she was able to talk to. Between 1977 and 2020, they worked unpaid for Opus Dei in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Latin America.

Members of the organization recruited girls from rural areas and forced them into modern slavery through a harsh system of psychological control.

Before that, in the Sverdlovsk region, Novoutkinsk police officers together with activists of the movement “Alternative” to combat human trafficking and modern forms of forced labor helped A Belarusian citizen who works on a farm for 10 months to obtain food and cigarettes must leave his employer.

Previously in France allowed The plane takes off upon notice that there are slaves on board.

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