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Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

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Trafficking expert tells Vatican summit, ‘Slavery was never abolished’
- Nov 7, 2017
At a Vatican news conference on Monday to wrap up a Nov. 4-6 summit, a victim of modern-day slavery said, “Remember me when fighting human trafficking.” One expert called for significantly increased awareness of this $32 billion illegal industry, saying the sobering reality of the early 21st century is that “slavery was never abolished.”

By Inés San Martín
California governor uses Vatican conference to attack Trump on climate change
- Nov 5, 2017
California Governor Jerry Brown told a Vatican conference on climate change that the “Trump factor is very small. Very small indeed.” Brown said the majority of the American people support taking action to combat climate change, but warned work had to be done “to move aside the huge rock of indifference, complacency and inertia.”

By Charles Collins
Vatican official hints at unofficial agreement with China on bishops
- Aug 9, 2017
A process to normalize the appointment of bishops in China, so they are confirmed by both the Vatican and the ruling Communist Party’s Catholic bodies not affiliated with the Vatican, has been at the center of negotiations for three years.

By Catholic News Service

Chinese state media highlights Vatican official at organ trafficking conference in Beijing
- Aug 4, 2017
The Chinese state-owned Global Times, an English-language newspaper, has quoted Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo’s positive remarks about China. Sánchez Sorondo is in Beijing, and state media in the communist country usually does not draw attention to the presence of Vatican officials when they are in the country.

By Crux Staff
Catholic leaders “disappointed” by Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement
- Jun 1, 2017
Catholic leaders, including the U.S. bishops’ conference and Catholic Relief Services, have issued statements criticizing President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement “represents the important awareness that, faced with issues as complex as climate change, individual and/or national action is not enough; instead it is necessary to implement a responsible collective response truly intended to work together in building our common home,” Pope Francis wrote to the 22nd session of the UN convention on climate change in 2016.

By Claire Giangravè
Vatican official says Trump leaving Paris deal would be ‘slap in the face’
- Jun 1, 2017
Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, head of the Vatican’s Academy of Sciences, said that if President Donald Trump does in fact take the United States out of the Paris deal on climate change, signed in Dec. 2015, “it would be a disaster for everyone” and also a “slap in the face” for the Vatican too.

By Inés San Martín