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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, takes members of the UN Security Council, including U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, right, on a tour outside the presidential compound in the capital Juba, South Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. South Sudan has agreed to the deployment of a 4,000-strong regional protection force approved by the U.N. Security Council after first rejecting the peacekeepers as a violation of its sovereignty. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)

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South Sudanese activists face intimidation for meeting with U.N. Security Council

Justin Lynch - Associated Press

September 08, 2016

The government harassment is in response to position papers that supported an arms embargo on South Sudan or a new regional protection force.

Heather Bar, center, a researcher at the New York-based Human Rights Watch speaks during the release of a report on child marriage in Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016. Traditional practices, poverty, last year's massive earthquake and Nepal's ongoing political instability mean child marriages remain a serious problem in the country, where 10 percent of the girls marry before they are 15, even though the government says it is making progress to combat the problem, rights groups say. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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In Nepal, 37 percent of girls are married before 18

Bin Gurubacharya - Associated Press

September 08, 2016

Poverty, lack of access to education, child labor, social pressures, and dowry practices were among the factors driving child marriage.

Pope embraces Father Guillermo Marco (his former press officer), as Rabbi Daniel Goldman and Islamic leader Omar Abboud look on.

Dispatches

Pope Francis: Jews, Christians and Muslims must work together to protect creation.

Gerard O’Connell

September 08, 2016

“The believer is a defender of creation and of life and cannot remain silent.”

In All Things

Do you suffer from spiritual Imposter Syndrome?

Valerie Schultz

September 08, 2016

We who write about God are probably least helpful when we think we are most profound.

A woman sits on the curb as Chicago police investigate the scene where gunfire at a birthday party on Aug. 7 left a man dead and a woman injured. Chicago police recorded 90 homicides in August, the highest monthly death toll in two decades. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Dispatches

After an increasingly violent summer, Chicago community leaders look to instill hope

Judith Valente

September 07, 2016

With gang violence on the rise, residents in the city's deadliest neighborhoods try to steer teens in a better direction.

Phyllis Schlafly, 92, died Sept. 5 at her home in Ladue, Missouri, outside St. Louis, according the Eagle Forum, an organization she founded in 1975. She is pictured in a 2013 photo. (CNS photo/Mary F. Calvert, Reuters)

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Phyllis Schlafly remembered for her advocacy for socially conservative causes

Catholic News Service

September 07, 2016

Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis said in a brief statement that Schlafly "displayed an ardent commitment to the teachings and defense of the Catholic faith."

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, center, listens to a Rohingya religious and community leader as he is explained the situation in the Internally Displaced People's camps as the Rakhine Advisory Commission visits a camp in Thetkabyin village, outside Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state. Annan is visiting as part of a commission set up last month to help find solutions to "protracted issues" in western Rakhine state, where human rights groups have documented widespread abuses by majority Rakhine Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

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The future of the Rohingya community in Myanmar rests with an advisory committee

Esther Htusan - Associated Press

September 07, 2016

Hundreds of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in 2012 unrest in Rakhine state, and many continue to be confined to squalid camps there.