May, 2015
Italian ships rescue nearly 6,800 migrants; baby born at sea
May 5, 2015 · By (FRANCES D'EMILIO for AbcNews.go.com.)
by AP May 4, 2015 ROME (AP) — A baby girl was born aboard a rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Coast Guard and Navy ships bring migrants by the thousands to the country’s southern ports. In the three-day period ending Sunday, 6,771 survivors were rescued at sea north of Libya from overcrowded […]
Read More...Belgian Bishop Ordered to Pay for Priest’s Sexual Abuse
May 5, 2015 · By News24.com.)
2015-04-24 08:01 Brussels – A Belgian court on Thursday ordered the Archbishop of Brussels to pay 10 000 euros in damages to a former choir boy subjected to sexual abuse by a priest. The plaintiff Joel Devillet, now 42, was raped by a priest in southern Belgium between 1987 and 1991. The earliest abuse happened […]
Read More...India girl dies after molestation attempt on bus
May 5, 2015 ·
April 30, 2015 A 14-year-old Indian girl has died and her mother was seriously injured when they were allegedly thrown off a bus by the staff who tried to molest them. Three men, including the bus conductor and his assistant, have been arrested. The girl was travelling in Punjab’s Moga district along with her mother […]
Read More...Boko Haram: 214 ‘Rescued’ Girls, Women Pregnant; Some Of The Children Were Born In The Forest – UNFPA
May 4, 2015 ·
Boko Haram: 214 ‘Rescued’ Girls, Women Pregnant; Some Of The Children Were Born In The Forest – UNFP MAY 4, 2015 Bankole Jamgbadi The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), on Sunday said about 214 of the 687 women and girls so far rescued by the Nigerian Army from the dreaded Sambisa Forest in Borno […]
Read More...INDIA : Minister says 2,000 girls ‘killed’ every day
May 4, 2015 ·
INDIA : Minister says 2,000 girls ‘killed’ every day NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation via CNUA) Two thousand girls are “killed” every day due to a preference for sons in India with most aborted or murdered just after birth, the country’s minister for women and child development said. Despite laws that ban parents having tests […]
Read More...The Migrant Children of the Desert Crossing
May 4, 2015 ·
The Migrant Children of the Desert Crossing Fr. Shay Cullen El Paso, Texas. Just a few kilometers on the outskirts of El Paso on the US border with the Mexican City of Ciudad Juarez, I lean against the long wire mesh fence that keeps out the flood of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America […]
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