Australian Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has launched an organisation aimed at ending modern slavery, gaining the support of the Pope and a major Islamic organisation.

Forrest unveiled the Global Freedom Network at the Vatican. It will be supported by Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and the grand imam of al-Azhar in Egypt.

Forrest said he was inspired to tackle the issue of slavery after his daughter Grace, had volunteered at a Nepal orphanage but found the children had been trafficked to the Middle East to be sex slaves.

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TWIGGY FOREST HAD THE VATICAN AND THE POPE IN ON HIS FRAUDULENT CHARITY FOR KIDS: The Aussie billionaire and noted philanthropist was visiting a large orphanage in Kathmandu at the insistence of his daughter Grace.

“In this large orphanage, you were met with hundreds of children and, generally, they’d forgiven the human race, they were bright and happy and they were learning school and mathematics and English and Nepalese history — the normal stuff,” Mr Forrest tells news.com.au.

“But, towards the end of the tour, the matron took me to the dormitory where the [new] kids were — I still have difficulty talking about this actually — and there’s one little girl who was whimpering. She wasn’t saying anything but you could hear her whimpering and she’s tossing from side to side in the bed, tossing.”


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