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Virginia Mata, Ph.D., is the director of Respect Life and Social Justice Ministries for the Archdiocese of San Antonio and an action researcher specializing in faith-based community organizing.
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Ngala Killian Chimtom writes for OSV News from Yaounde, Cameroon.