Faith

This U.S. nuns' home is helping girls freed from sex trafficking

Sat, 27 May 2017 11:00:00 -0400

BATON ROUGE, La. – The numbers are staggering. Each year in the U.S. alone, some 300,000 minors are victims of sex trafficking.

Program aims to include girls in politics

jean.kodin@catholicregister.org (Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register) — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:00:00 -0400

TORONTO - The walls of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen��Ƶapp Park are engraved with the names of former legislators from the province��Ƶapp past. Not many of these names are female. It��Ƶapp something a group of girls from Waterloo, Ont., wants to change.

Sewing hope for Ugandan girls ravaged by war experience

ruane@catholicregister.org (Ruane Remy, The Catholic Register) — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 08:00:00 -0500

TORONTO - Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe is determined to teach women how to stitch their lives, torn by war and slavery, back together again.

Vatican calls for release of kidnapped Nigerian girls

Wed, 07 May 2014 20:00:00 -0400

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican issued an urgent appeal today for the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.