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July 5, 2016

South African cardinal calls U.S. abortion rate ‘a genocide’ for blacks

Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa, arrives for the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 14. In a series of tweets, Napier says abortion rates among blacks in the U.S. is "a genocide."

A South African cardinal who recently rejected calls for the Catholic Church to apologize to gay people has said the abortion rate among black women in the U.S. is “a genocide” and added: “Isn’t this something we should be apologizing for?”

Published in International