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RNS Opening Budget — Thursday, May 13, 2021

NEWS STORY
RNS-Uyghur-UN: China Challenges UN Event Focused On Its Uyghurs Population
(RNS) — China faced condemnation from the United States and a handful of other UN member states at a United Nations event on Wednesday over its treatment of its Uyghur minority and other Turkic Muslim groups. The event sought to pressure Beijing to allow a United Nations human rights representative to visit the region to conduct an independent investigation. By Joseph Hammond. 575 words (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Clohessy-Oped: Biden must address Catholic sexual abuse crisis
(RNS) — This crisis first made national headlines more than 25 years ago. Yet U.S. abuse survivors have virtually never gotten a single official acknowledgement of their pain by any U.S. federal official anywhere. The nation’s second Catholic president should pardon those survivors whose pain has led them to behavior that put them in prison and urge Congress to hold hearings into this crisis and how similar horrors can be deterred. By David Clohessy. 600 words. (category: k)

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