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Article: Crucifixes Made Under Horrific Sweatshop Conditions In China Linked to St. Patrick's Cathedral and Trinity Church in New York, and Nationally to the $4.63 Billion Association for Christian Retail

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November 20, 2007
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NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a press conference today in front of Saint Patricks Cathedral in New York City, Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, released a 73-page report documenting the brutal sweatshop conditions under which crucifixes are made for Saint Patricks Cathedral, Trinity Church and the Association for Christian Retail at the Junxingye factory in Southern China.

Holding up a crucifix made in the Junxingye factory and sold at Saint Patricks and Trinity, Kernaghan said, This crucifix was made by young women--several just 15 and 16 years of age--who were ...

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