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Fast-food workers and supporters demand higher wages during rally in New York (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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According to a study released on Oct. 22 by the University of California’s Berkeley Labor Center and the University of Illinois, more than half the nation’s fast food workers rely on public aid because their wages are not sufficient to support them. Fifty-two percent of families of fast
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
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On Sept. 23 the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court issued a decision effectively denationalizing an estimated 250,000 people residing in that country. The ruling retroactively denies Dominican nationality to anyone born after 1929 who did not have at least one parent of Dominican blood.
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