Georgetown announced it would commit to raising around $400,000 a year to create a fund for reparations to the descendants of 272 slaves sold by the college in the pre-Civil War era.
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Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council blames government for murder
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been recorded several times stating that he does not agree with the number and size of indigenous territories.
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Remembering the children who died in detention during Día de los Muertos
“They died on their way to this country and made that journey from life into death,” Ms. Marquez said. “In the end, we will find them there with our God.”
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Iran furthers nuclear program on anniversary of U.S. Embassy crisis
Tehran has gone from producing some 450 grams (1 pound) of low-enriched uranium a day to 5 kilograms (11 pounds)
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Eldest Mercy sister in world dies at age 111
The eldest Sister of Mercy in the world and possibly the oldest living religious died Oct. 25 at the age of 111 at the Convent of Mercy retirement home in Mobile.
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Pope Francis recalls persecuted Christians during Mass in catacombs
Celebrating Mass in the underground burial chamber, Pope Francis said he naturally thought “of the life of those people who had to hide, who had this culture of burying their dead and celebrating the Eucharist inside here.”