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Sep 19, 2014

They traverse an “underground railroad” system as they make their escape from their captors. They stay in safe houses, scattered across the country to hide and protect them. Similar to the enslavement of African-Americans 150 years ago, today’s slavery is more commonly called human trafficking, be it women forced into

By Michael O'Loughlin

Joe Biden thanks ‘Nuns on the Bus’ tour for their effort

Sep 18, 2014

DES MOINES, Iowa — “We the people, we the voters” is the theme of the third “Nuns on the Bus” tour, which kicked off Sept. 17 in Des Moines with Vice President Joe Biden thanking the sisters for their effort. The sisters began a 10-state tour promoting voter registration and

By Catholic News Service

Biden, a Catholic school ‘kid,’ praises nuns under fire from the Vatican

Sep 18, 2014

DES MOINES — At a Vatican meeting a few years ago, Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly asked Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for some advice. “You are being entirely too hard on the American nuns,” Mr. Biden offered. “Lighten up.” Last year, Mr. Biden seized on an audience with Pope

By christina.reinwald

Brutally murdered nuns laid to rest in the Congo as crime investigation continues
- Sep 12, 2014
Three elderly Italian nuns murdered in Burundi were laid to rest Thursday in a Xaverian cemetery in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened calls for action about their death. Sister Lucia Pulici, 75, Sister Olga Raschietti, 82, and Sister Bernadetta Boggian, 79, of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary

By Religion News Service
Government presses nuns to comply with contraception mandate
- Sep 9, 2014
DENVER — The federal government is pursuing its case against the Little Sisters of the Poor in an attempt to get the religious order to comply with newly issued interim rules regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraception mandate under the Affordable Care Act. The government filed a

By Catholic News Service
Nuns to pope: Revoke 15th-century doctrine that allows Christians to seize native land
- Sep 9, 2014
In November, Sister Maureen Fiedler hand-delivered a letter to Pope Francis’ ambassador in Washington, D.C., urging the pontiff to renounce a series of 15th-century church documents that justify the colonization and oppression of indigenous peoples. She doesn’t know if the letter made it to the Vatican. But she’s hopeful a

By Religion News Service