Copy Desk Daily, June 27, 2019

by Teresa Malcolm

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Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily highlights recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.

On Guatemalan gang turf, Oblate sister reaches out to women in prostitution. The dangers of the district called La Línea are well-known in Guatemala City, but Sr. Angélica Segoviano goes there all the same, visiting the women who work there, listening to their often-wrenching stories. Get to know some of them in Soli Salgado's report.

You don't have to go to a red-light district to be in a world touched by human trafficking: Whether we know it or not, trafficking weaves a web around our lives, writes Sr. Nancy Sylvester. Bring that reality into your prayer life, she says, sharing words she prays to be mindful of those who are suffering under human trafficking.

"Defund hate. Invest in love." In Washington, D.C., detention watchdogs rally against immigration enforcement funding, as border operations dominate the national conversation.

Jason Berry's new book elucidates contradictory history of New Orleans, a city that is a crossroads of humanity. NCR columnist and New Orleanian Alex Mikulich reviews City of a Million Dreams.

John Gehring of Faith and Public Life argues that Catholic bishops need a year of abstinence on preaching about sexuality.

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