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Animal rights activists briefly interrupted Pope Francis' weekly audience at the Vatican on Aug. 7, holding up signs demanding an end to bullfighting.An activist of Ethical Treatment of Animals wearing a t-shirt Stop Blessing Corridas raises a poster reading 'bullfighting is a sin' during Pope Francis' weekly general audience on Aug. 7, at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican. Animal rights activists briefly interrupted Pope Francis' weekly audience at the Vatican on Aug.
The pair were briefly detained by Vatican security and Italian police, before being released, PETA said. "Corridas," or bullfights, are a controversial tradition practiced in Spain and several Latin American countries as well as in parts of southern France and Portugal.The Aug. 7 protest was one of several over the past couple of years calling for a stand against bullfighting from the Argentinian pope. In a 2015 treatise, he wrote that"every act of cruelty towards any creature is 'contrary to human dignity.
But Catholic priests still officiate at religious ceremonies in bullfights and minister to bullfighters in chapels built inside arenas, PETA said.
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