2013年11月4日星期一

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Church set to drop new album, blow minds at CMAs

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:55 AM PST

Church set to drop new album, blow minds at CMAsEric Church isn't sure what reaction he'll get when he plays his new single, the hard rock anthem "The Outsiders," on Wednesday night during the Country Music Association Awards. It's the first ...


Human trafficking is crime against humanity:Vatican group

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:02 AM PST

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Human trafficking is a crime against humanity that should be recognized as such and punished by international or regional courts, a Vatican study group said on Monday. "International or regional courts ... should be created because human trafficking in an international phenomenon that cannot be properly prosecuted and punished at the national level," said a statement listing 50 recommendations made at a two-day seminar held at the initiative of Pope Francis on how to combat human trafficking and slavery. "The idea is that it should be something along the lines of European courts that go beyond borders," Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, said afterwards in a telephone interview. The group, which will give its recommendations to Pope Francis as well as to organizations fighting human trafficking, also said it should be defined as a crime against humanity in national and international legislation.

Pope wants to step up fight against modern slavery

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:41 AM PST

Pope Francis celebrates mass in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on November 4, 2013Pope Francis wants action against modern forms of slavery including forced labour and prostitution, the Vatican said Monday after a meeting of experts called by the pontiff to debate the problem. "Some experts believe human trafficking will overtake drug and arms trafficking in a decade, becoming the most lucrative criminal activity in the world," Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, told reporters. Sorondo said the pope was heavily invested in a subject he knows well from his years in Latin America and had even invited two experts on human trafficking that he knows from Buenos Aires.


1 killed, several injured in Ind. church van crash

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 10:43 PM PST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police and fire officials in Indianapolis say one person has been killed and several others injured after a crash involving a church van filled with passengers.

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