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Vatican hosts meeting on drugs, criminal recruitment of youth

August 27, 2026

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CWN Editor's Note: The Pontifical Commission for Latin America helped organize a three-day conference devoted to “Faith-Based Response to Drugs and the Criminal Recruitment of Young People: A Dialogue from Latin America and the Caribbean to the World.”

The Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council’s Latin American Ministry for Accompaniment and Prevention of Addictions and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission also helped organize the meeting, which began on August 25 and concludes today.

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