Alfie Evans' father on Thursday
appealed to Pope Francis to travel to Liverpool to see the
situation of his seriously ill son.
"I call on the pope to come here to see what is happening,"
Tom Evans, who has been in a series of legal battles with
Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital, told the Catholic channel
TV2000.
"Come here and see how my son is the hostage of this
hospital. What we are enduring is not right".
Rome's Vatican-owned pediatric hospital Bambino Gesù has
offered to treat the 23-month-old boy, who has a serious
undiagnosed brain condition.
The government in Rome has granted Alfie Italian citizenship
in a bid to bring him to Italy and beat rulings to let him die.
But the British courts have refused to allow the child, who
continues to fight after being taken off life support earlier
this week, to be transferred to Italy.
"Thank you Italy. We love you," Tom Evans said.
"Alfie is part of the Italian family. He is part of Italy. We
belong to Italy".
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