Pope Francis has used his New Year message to denounce violence against women, hours after slapping a woman's hand to free himself from her grip.
"Women are sources of life. Yet they are continually insulted, beaten, raped, forced to prostitute themselves and to suppress the life they bear in the womb," the Pontiff told worshipers gathered at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Wednesday."Every form of violence inflicted upon a woman is a blasphemy against God, who was born of a woman.
Pope Francis smacks woman's hand to free himself from her gripRead MorePope Francis had been making his way to the Nativity scene in Vatican City on Tuesday, New Year's Eve. When he began to walk away from the crowd that had gathered to greet him, video shows a woman grabbing his hand and yanking him toward her.He became visibly upset, slapping the woman's hand in an attempt to extricate himself. Footage of the altercation also appears to show him shouting at the woman.
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