Better Call Moses - The Priest Saving Souls
Father Mussie is the Eritrean Priest who is helping desperate African migrants.
In a small parish in the town of Erlinsbach, in Switzerland, is a priest, not totally out of the ordinary, until you discover his amazing story of leaving his home country and travelling to Europe and becoming a priest in the Catholic church.
That's not the most amazing thing about him. Father Mussie has a phone number, which can ring dozens of times a day from callers who are themselves fleeing war, poverty, religious persecution, or all three.
John Laurenson meets Mussie, a man of life long faith, whose phone number is a lifeline for African migrants stranded between war torn Africa and a haven in Europe. Scrawled on the wall in prisons in Libya and in the hold of boats bringing refugees across the Sea to Europe, the telephone number of a Swiss-based Catholic priest, has saved the lives of thousands of people.
(Photo: (R) Father Mussie, courtesy of John Laurenson)
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