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		</div><p>Pilgrims and tourists have flocked to the Colosseum for the Way of the Cross procession to join Pope Francis for a Good Friday night ritual in Rome.</p>
<p>The procession commemorates the suffering of Jesus.</p>
<p>This year, meditations to be read aloud during the ceremony will reflect on the modern-day plight of migrants whose traffickers force them to endure prostitution and other humiliations.</p>
<p>As part of heightened security, buses and other traffic were rerouted away from the ancient Roman arena for the evocative, torch-carrying procession, which draws thousands of faithful annually.</p>
<p>Composing the meditations for Way of the Cross, or Via Crucis, event was an Italian missionary nun, Eugenia Bonetti, who has worked for a quarter-century rescuing migrants and other women forced into prostitution on Italy’s streets by human traffickers and other exploiters.</p>
<p>Pope Francis has frequently championed the welfare of migrants and denounced human traffickers.</p>
<p>In an early evening prayer service in St Peter’s Basilica, Francis listened in silence to a homily by the papal preacher.</p>
<p>Readings focused on the torture and suffering Jesus endured before being executed upon a wooden cross.</p>
<p>Wearing bright-red coloured robes to symbolise the blood shed by Jesus, Francis was helped by aides to kneel in quiet reflection, with his head bowed and hands folded.</p>
<p>He also took his turn kissing a crucifix held up in the centre aisle of the cavernous basilica, then pressed his forehead for a moment against the wooden statue depicting Jesus.</p>
<p>In another moment, he lay prostrate on the basilica floor in a sign of humility.</p>
<p>Solemn Holy Week ceremonies lead to the joyous celebrations of Easter Sunday, when Christians mark their belief of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.</p>
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