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Childhood's End: Boys pan for gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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The country with the largest number of people in modern slavery is India.
Fleeing Cyclone Phailin
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Caroleen Hensgen, S.S.N.D., the first woman appointed superintendent of schools for a U.S. diocese, died on Oct. 15 in Chatawa, Miss., at the age of 98.• On World Food Day, Oct. 16, Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a “throwaway culture” and
Their City in Ruins: Children sit among rubble in a besieged neighborhood in Homs, Syria, on Sept. 19
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Jesuit Refugee Service is serving thousands of internally displaced Syrians.
Young Hispanics perform during Encuantro celebration, Oct. 2008 \
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Perhaps the fastest growing “religious” demographic among Hispanics is the unaffiliated.
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The persecution of Christians around the world has intensified over the last two-and-a-half years, according to a review of religious freedom in 30 countries by the United Kingdom branch of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. Christians also are persecuted by religious nationalists in so
Poverty and Conflict: A child in Abyei, Sudan. Most of the world's 400 million children in extreme poverty live in Africa.
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The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has sharply declined over the past three decades, but in 2010 it still included roughly 400 million children, according to a new World Bank analysis that for the first time gives an in-depth profile of the poorest people in the world.Th