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Sign of Hope: Operation Day's Work

This student-run campaign, focused on helping students become aware of socially justice issues and solidarity with others across the world, offers a sign of hope.

Child Soldiers in Uganda

Up to 20,000 children in northern Uganda have been kidnapped and forced to fight in a conflict that has been raging for 19 years. Other children flee from rural areas to villages to sleep at night,...
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Tolerance and the Caste System

This four-page handout/ bulletin insert offers innovative ways to reflect on the lack of tolerance in formal caste systems--and in our own informal social systems. A beautiful Prayer Service for...
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Prayer for Victims of the Mudslides and Earthquake

The United Nations Fact Sheet

  On 24 October 1945, the United Nations was formally established. Learn about the UN with this two-page summary designed for this anniversary. Pope Benedict XVI addressed the...
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Derechos Humanos (Human Rights) - in Spanish

A new Spanish-language unit on human rights provides basic information on human rights and a creative activity to help students think about local-global connections in human rights can be found at...
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Halloween Chocolate is No Treat for Child Cocoa Laborers

While millions of people around the world will stock up on Halloween candy in the new few months before Halloween, we are called to reflect on the child cocoa workers in many countries in the...
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Service, Part 2: Surrounded by the Faces of God

"Surrounded by the Faces of God" is the second reflection/activity in our Service and Justice series. It focuses on helping students who perform service to see the faces of God and the dignity of the...
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Prayer for Nuclear Disarmament

The Catholic Perspective on the Death Penalty (Sept. 2005)

This bulletin insert/fact sheet is based the recent campaign by the U.S. Catholic Bishops to end the death penalty.
Prayer Service

Litany for an End to the Death Penalty

A main tenant of Catholic Social Teaching is the dignity of every human person. Popes and Bishops have consistently called for an end to the death penalty. This Litany is for an End to the Death...
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Nuclear Disarmament

While enormous amounts of money are spent daily on the build-up of weapons, especially nuclear weapons, which threaten the well-being of all creation. Pope John Paul II spoke repeatedly about the...
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