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- Nov 27, 2020
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Iowa Catholic college to remove statue of its bishop founder over slavery
- Sep 8, 2020
A private eastern Iowa college has announced it will remove a statue of the school’s founder after officials there learned new details about his slave-owning past.
Papal aide sees whole drama of trafficking in one Sierra Leone woman
- Jun 19, 2020
Augusta Ngombu had been orphaned as a child. Exploited and abused by a family member, she fled her home and ended up as a prostitute in the streets in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where over 50 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty.
Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves
- Dec 3, 2019
Millions of people voted in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill. But many might not have known the story of her life as chronicled in a recent film, “Harriet.”
Pope tells Thailand’s Catholics to be ‘missionary disciples’ not ‘mercenaries of faith’
- Nov 21, 2019
Speaking to some 60,000 members of Thailand’s tiny Catholic community, Pope Francis on Thursday called them to be missionary disciples, explaining that being a “mercenary of the faith” does not compel others to convert.
Church’s historic ties to slavery examined at Independence Day conference
- Jul 11, 2019
Independence Day took on a special poignancy at a conference for African American Catholics held a few miles from the nation’s capital, as participants at a July 4 workshop reflected on the Catholic Church’s connection to what has been called the country’s original sin — slavery.
Georgetown students vote for student fee to pay reparations over slavery
- Apr 14, 2019
Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.
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