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Young Haitian women displaced by gang violence in Cité Soleil take refuge at Hugo Chavez Square in Port-au-Prince Oct. 16, 2022. Haiti is making news for gang violence, but the violence disproportionately affects women, especially with increasing incidences of rape. (CNS photo/Ricardo Arduengo, Reuters)

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Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has 'disproportionate impact' on women

Catholic News Service|Oct 24, 2022|5 Min Read

Participants are pictured in a file photo during a protest demanding the release of political prisoners in Minsk, Belarus. Human rights groups say at least 1,260 political prisoners are currently jailed in Belarus. (CNS photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)

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Exiled Belarusian priest wants bishops to speak out for clergy

Catholic News Service|Sep 28, 2022|3 Min Read

Displaced Nigerians camped near St. Francis Xavier Parish in Agagbe, Nigeria, in 2022. (Courtesy of Adakole Daniel via CNA)

World

Human rights activists call on US State Department to return Nigeria to religious freedom watchlist

Catholic News Agency|Sep 20, 2022|2 Min Read

Bishop José Álvarez Lagos is surrounded by police officers on Aug. 4, 2022. The bishop's detention was cited in a Sept. 13, 2022, U.N. human-rights report. (Diocese Media TV Merced/Diocese of Matagalpa via CNA)

World

UN human rights report on Nicaragua cites ‘attacks on Catholic Church’

Zelda Caldwell|Sep 15, 2022|3 Min Read

Former Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom will be the keynote speaker at the March for the Martyrs. (Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons; Screenshot from the National Catholic Register via CNA)

This Muslim NBA vet is marching for persecuted Christians

Joe Bukuras|Sep 3, 2022|4 Min Read

Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China. (Jonathan Densford/Shutterstock via CNA)

World

China defiant in face of Uyghurs UN report

Jonah McKeown|Sep 1, 2022|5 Min Read

Guarani Indigenous people protest as they mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in São Paulo Aug. 9, 2022. The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council said record violence last year against traditional peoples may have made 2021 "the worst year of the century" for Indigenous peoples. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)

World

Violence against Indigenous in Brazil surges, says Catholic council

Lise Alves|Aug 18, 2022|3 Min Read

A man who said his village was burned and relatives killed by Myanmar soldiers comforts his wife as Rohingya refugees arrive by a wooden boat from Myanmar in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Oct. 1, 2017. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters)

World

U.N. report: Myanmar junta 'committing systematic crimes against humanity'

Catholic News Service|Aug 10, 2022|3 Min Read

The Court of Appeal is based at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. (Anthony M./Flickr via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0)

Parents of Archie Battersbee lose appeal: 12-year-old can be removed from life support, judges rule

Catholic News Agency|Jul 26, 2022|2 Min Read

A general view shows miners at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga, Congo, Aug. 1, 2018. (CNS photo/Djaffar Al Katanty, Reuters)

World

House hearing examines child labor abuses in Chinese-owned mines in Congo

Catholic News Service|Jul 22, 2022|5 Min Read

Father Franco Mella, a missionary with the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions, sits as he begins his hunger strike outside Shek Pik Prison in Hong Kong July 14, 2022. Father Mella is calling for freedom of all political prisoners. The Milan-born priest, who is a longtime rights activist in the Chinese-ruled city, vowed to refuse food as he stood on a dam wall overlooking the prison on an isolated stretch of Hong Kong's Lantau Island. (CNS photo/Lam Yik, Reuters)

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Missionary priest's hunger strike protests Hong Kong activists' detention

Catholic News Service|Jul 15, 2022|3 Min Read

An elephant at the Bronx Zoo. (Shutterstock)

Species arguments: Does Happy the Elephant have rights?

Charles Camosy|Jun 7, 2022|5 Min Read

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