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Bishop Estêvão Binga, Auxiliary Bishop of Angola’s Benguela Diocese. Credit: Benguela Diocese

Catholic Bishop in Angola Cautions Parents against Child Labor, Advocates for Virtues

Jan 15, 2024

The Auxiliary Bishop of Angola’s Benguela Diocese has cautioned parents against child labor in the Southern African nation.

Congolese civil rights attorney Hervé Diakiese Kyungu testifying on July 14, 2022, at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. on the use of child labor in China-backed cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Screenshot from YouTube video

Thousands of Child Workers in DR Congo Exploited in China-backed Cobalt Mines: Testimony

Jul 16, 2022

The mines “are often no more than narrow shafts dug into the ground, which is why children are recruited — and in many cases forced — to descend into them," one witness said.

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Free Children from "brutal yoke of labor exploitation": Pope Francis

Nov 2, 2021

An estimated 112 million children work in agricultural settings.

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