(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, 08 SEPT - "I have a deep desire to come and visit Rome and, if possible, to meet the Holy Father".
Thus Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who, accused of blasphemy, lived ten years of harsh imprisonment and was then acquitted and released.
In an interview with the director of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need, Alessandro Monteduro, the woman expresses her desire to meet the pontiff and claims to always pray for him "who supports us in faith".
Asia Bibi has become an international symbol of the struggle for religious freedom.
The woman, who after the liberation chose to leave her country and now lives with her family in Canada, then launches an appeal to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan to put an end to the drama of child-brides, mostly Christian girls, kidnapped, forcibly converted and given in marriage to their kidnappers: "Please help our girls because none of them have to suffer!".
(HANDLE).