LONDON – In a less traditional piece of charitable work, more than 1,000 nuns worldwide are swapping their habits for outfits typically worn by prostitutes or laborers.
The 1,100 sisters belong to the group Talitha Kum, an 11-year-old network of women fighting human trafficking based in Rome and funded by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, according to the group's website.
In Canada, recently elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Liberal, has backed off a campaign promise to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees there by New Year's Day – limiting the intake of tired, poor and huddled masses this year to 10,000, as long as none of them are single, heterosexual Syrian men.
Earlier this week the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., or CBC, reported that the government's Syrian refugee plan will only be accepting women, children and families.
