September, 2014
Vatican arrests ex-envoy Wesolowski over child abuse
September 30, 2014 ·
Jozef Wesolowski is the highest ranking Vatican official to face abuse charges
Read More...Miles de menores languidecen en precarios centros de detención de Filipinas
September 30, 2014 ·
Vida | 23/09/2014 Helen Cook Manila, 23 sep (EFE).- Miles de menores filipinos languidecen en precarias celdas de los centros de detención del país, adonde son trasladados tras ser arrestados por la Policía y donde permanecen durante meses en pésimas condiciones. Según cifras del Servicio de Prisiones Jesuita de Filipinas, unos 20.000 menores pasan […]
Read More...SMILES
September 25, 2014 ·
‘SMILES”, REFLECTION OF VOLUNTEERING IN PREDA 2014 By Fionn Kinne-Coyle When I first told people I was going off to the Philippines to volunteer, their first question was “”Are you going to get paid?” I thought this was quite amusing because I could see that they couldn’t really get through their […]
Read More...Gardaí probe rape of elderly woman
September 25, 2014 ·
The incident took place last March in south Dublin and detectives are completing a detailed file for the Director of Public Prosecutions. The DPP, in consultation with senior officers, will make the decision whether or not to direct a prosecution. The girl, 15, has claimed that five boys, one of whom is aged 14, raped her at a party in her own home after alcohol was consumed.
Read More...Comfort Women – Healing an Old Wound
September 25, 2014 ·
The Vatican announced in March that South Korea will be the first Asian nation to be visited by Pope Francis. His visit will take place from Aug. 14 to 18, which includes a date of critical significance not only for Korean and world history but also for Catholicism.
Read More...Jonathan Dwyer Joins NFLers Facing Assault Charges
September 22, 2014 ·
THE ARIZONA CARDINALS’ RUNNING BACK FACES MULTIPLE ASSAULT CHARGES By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Newser Staff Posted Sep 18, 2014 3:00 AM CDT NEWSER) – The hit list keeps growing, and unfortunately, that is meant literally. In the first few weeks of the NFL season, a slew of domestic violence and child abuse allegations have come to light […]
Read More...Texas woman executed for starving child to death
September 22, 2014 ·
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas woman was executed Wednesday evening for her role in the torture and starvation death of her girlfriend’s 9-year-old son.
Read More...Voices: Beating a child bloody is not 'cultural'
September 22, 2014 ·
I was at a local park with my biological father in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, where we lived. He’d given me instructions to stay within a specific area, where he could see me while he played ball. But I didn’t listen.
Read More...When is punishment child abuse? #tellusatoday
September 22, 2014 ·
As a pediatrician, I am required to report child abuse, or any reasonable suspicion of child abuse, and failure to do so would be a crime. But the cases are not always black and white. Human beings are making these judgments so they will never be perfect (“Whippings part of Adrian Peterson’s childhood”).
Read More...The most important in the Kingdom
September 19, 2014 ·
September 6, 2014 10:44 pm Recently I was talking to a group of forty young boys who had been taken out of filthy jails and sub-human conditions in the so-called youth detention centers of Metro Manila. I told them, “You are the children of God and the most important in God’s family. That’s why […]
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