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March 16, 2016

Syrian children bear the brunt of war tearing nation apart

UNICEF estimates that 80 per cent of Syria’s children have been harmed in the nation’s now five-year-old civil war.

With seven million Syrian children forced into poverty, almost three million out of school and two million living in cities under siege, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF estimates 80 per cent of Syria’s children have suffered harm in the five-year-old war.

Published in Canada
June 10, 2014

Pope tells traffickers, arms manufacturers that God's judgment will come

ope Francis holds a pamphlet for the Red Card to Child Labor campaign as he leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 11. One day in advance of the World Day against Child Labor, the pope appealed to the international communit y to help safeguard children from forced labor. The words on the pamphlet in Italian say: "All together against child labor."

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis denounced those responsible for human trafficking, slave labour and arms manufacturing, saying people producing weapons of war are "merchants of death."

Published in Vatican