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I really don\u2019t know quite how to respond to this article. \u00a0It is shocking indeed, and I urge us to pray for this nation:<\/p>\n

Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.<\/p>\n

I first met Manoli Pagador in Getafe, in a working-class suburb of Madrid. She was attending a meeting for people affected by the scandal Spaniards call \u201cninos robados\u201d \u2013 stolen children.<\/p>\n

She has three daughters and lots of grandchildren, but she has never got over the loss of her first-born \u2013 a son \u2013 nearly 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

She had come to think she was crazy for believing he was alive, instead of dead and buried as hospital doctors had told her.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow,\u201d she said, gripping my hand tightly. \u201cLook around the room at the other women here. All like me. The same background. The same experience. I\u2019m not mad and my family finally believes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

via BBC News \u2013 Spain\u2019s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really don\u2019t know quite how to respond to this article. \u00a0It is shocking indeed, and I urge us to pray for this nation: Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s. 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