A CNN video report says that the Chibok girls, abducted by the Boko Haram sect in April 14, 2014, are still alive. This story was recounted by Monica Sunday, a 20-year old Christian woman who said that she was held by the sect for 3 days last November. She said, while speaking with Channel 4 that the girls were not harmed, but were cooking for the insurgent. …

Pope Francis on Saturday condemned female mutilation and domestic violence against women, calling them degradations that had to be combated. “The many forms of slavery, the commercialization, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought …