'Repugnant' night says Ferrara diocese (2)

(ANSA) - Ferrara, October 25 - A night in which protesters raised barricades against women refugees near Ferrara was "repugnant to the Christian conscience," the archdiocese said Tuesday. It said "women and children lived on our territory a difficult and hostile night" and said the Church of Ferrara-Comacchio was "close" to them and the local bishop would visit them soon. Twelve women refugees, one of them pregnant, were forced to go to other towns in the Po delta by the road blocks put up by residents of Gorino.