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Pope: priests must protect kids (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the Regina Caeli prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 25, 2010.The Pontiff is praising an Italian priest's group which battles pedophilia. Benedict's encouragement for clergy and lay people to work to prevent sexual and other abuse of children comes after weeks of accusations he and other top churchmen helped perpetuate systematic cover-ups of molester priests worldwide. The pope told pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter's Square Sunday that he was grateful for those who are supporting his papacy with prayers but made no direct mention of the accusations. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI told priests Sunday to safeguard children in their charge from evil and win the “absolute” trust of their flock, even as his own papacy is…

Haiti parents take back kids given to missionaries (AP)

March 17th, 2010

Twin sisters Nacoza, center, and Penny, partially obscured behind at right, sit with their mother in a truck after being reunited at an orphanage run by SOS Children's Villages International on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 17, 2010.  Families reunited with the children they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago who were detained while trying to bus them to the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.


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Parents take back kids they gave to missionaries (AP)

March 17th, 2010

Tailor Joseph Vital, 55, looks at his mother Elita Vital, 76, holding his three-month-old baby Stania inside a makeshift tent at the camp for earthquake survivors set up at the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Two months after the quake, many homeless victims still have received no food and only 60 percent of the 1.3 million homeless have got plastic sheets or tents, according to U.N. coordinators of the massive but overwhelmed binternational/b relief effort. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.


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