An Italian priest says he is organising the world’s first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour.

“Nuns are – above all – women, and beauty is a gift from God,” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper.

He is asking nuns to send their photos to him, saying that internet users will then choose the winner.

Father Rungi stressed that nuns were not being invited to parade in bathing suits, saying …

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