Human Trafficking

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During the meeting with members of Congress, Smith said he proposed that the full U.N. General Assembly create an ad hoc tribunal that could act more quickly on war crimes charges against Russian officials.

U.S. President Joe Biden nominated him to the Vatican post in October, and the Senate confirmed him in January.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which includes Nobel Prize winners, professors and researchers, traces its roots to the 17th century and was founded in its current form by Pope Pius IX in 1847.

Traffickers prey on refugees that are desperate to leave and go to a safer place over border.

With help from the Catholic Church in the United States and elsewhere in the world, Venezuela’s Catholics have been able to maintain ministries among the country’s most downtrodden.

In the days leading up to the Feb. 13 game in Inglewood’s new SoFi Stadium, local authorities have warned of coming sting operations and criminal penalties associated with sex trafficking.

“The thousands of women and girls who are trafficked every year denounce the dramatic consequences of relational models based on discrimination and submission,” the pope said, “and it is not an exaggeration — there are thousands of them!”