Vatican City, 31 October, 2024 / 2:10 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis received in audience on Wednesday members of “Project Hope,” a program of accompaniment for the spiritual and emotional healing of women and men who suffer the consequences of having chosen abortion.
The members of the initiative, which has spread to most Latin American countries, aim to help those who seek “reconciliation and forgiveness” and experience God’s mercy.
Since 1999, these “companions” — whom the Holy Father referred to as “angels” — have been caring for the “other victims of abortion,” those who have decided to end the lives of their children.
Project Hope came about from women and also men asking for help “with tears in their eyes and expressing the need to know how to cope with unbearable pain.”
The goal of the project is to help the parents work out their grief “with the help of trained professionals and through an approach of acceptance, understanding, and confidentiality, which seeks to facilitate the encounter of the mother and father with their child who was the victim of an abortion.”