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The United Nations has labeled the DRC, Africa's second largest country, as the "rape capital of the world" due to the use of rape as a weapon of war by proxy militia gangs fighting for control of Congo's easily appropriable and highly valuable natural resources.
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Reading 1, Sirach 5:1-8
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May 23 Saint of the Day

St. John Baptist Rossi
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