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By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Marking the feast of St. JosephineBakhita, a former slave, Pope Francis urged Christians to help victims of humantrafficking and migrants, especially the Rohingya people being chased fromMyanmar.For the Catholic Church, St. Bakhita's feast day, Feb. 8, is aday of prayer for victims of trafficking.Pope Francis asked government officials around the world to"decisively combat this plague" of human trafficking, payingparticular attention to trafficking in children. "Every effort must bemade to eradicate this shameful and intolerable crime."Describing St. Bakhita as a "young woman who wasenslaved in Africa, exploited, humiliated," Pope Francis said she nevergave up hope and, finally, she was able to migrate to Europe.Holding up a booklet with a photograph of the Sudanesesaint, who died in Italy in 1947, the pope continued telling her story. InEurope, he said, "she heard the call of the Lord and became a nun,"joining the Canossian Daughters of Charity...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Shawn Blazsek would go days without sleeping and was forgetting how to tie his shoes. He knew a string of concussions from high school football and boxing was catching up with him. Still, at age 33, he was stunned when told he had Alzheimer's disease....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline called for protests around the world Wednesday as the Army prepared to greenlight the final stage of the $3.8 billion project's construction....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- In a sign of improving ties, Turkish officials said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and responded "positively" on two key Turkish demands that had soured Ankara's relations with the Obama administration....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Brittany Ross was savoring the smell of her aunt's simmering white beans when a tornado lifted their trailer into the air and slammed it back down....
CAMP TAJI, Iraq (AP) -- Forces fighting the Islamic State group should be able to retake the IS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia's new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as the long-chaotic country moved toward its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic senators fighting to derail Jeff Sessions' nomination as attorney general repeatedly challenged Republicans Wednesday by reading aloud from a critical letter from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, a day after the Republicans silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren for doing the same....
LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) -- Madonna was asked "uncomfortable questions" by a judge in Malawi during the pop star's successful application to adopt more children from the southern African country, according to a court document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed the court that is deliberating his immigration and refugee executive order for having motivations he described as "so political."...
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