March, 2016
Pope Francis condemns the rejection of refugees in Easter speech
March 31, 2016 ·
Pope Francis has criticized the “rejection” of refugees by the countries that could offer help, as European countries have been acting to stop an unprecedented inflow of refugees. “The Easter message of the risen Christ… invites us not to forget those men and women seeking a better future, an ever more numerous throng of migrants […]
Read More...Children massacred in Pakistan by suicide bomber.
March 31, 2016 ·
LAHORE’S Catholic Archbishop Sebastian Shaw, OFM Cap. )has described seeing wounded and dead children as young as four or five as he seeks to offer comfort and hope following Easter Sunday’s bomb blast. “I saw so many children wounded or killed” he said speaking to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need just after returning from […]
Read More...CHILDREN SUFFER LIFELONG HARM FROM PORNOGRAPHY .
March 31, 2016 ·
Children have a right to be children, away from harms that can be inflicted on them by being exposed to pornography. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference made this assertion in a submission published last week by the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications. “We live in a sexualised culture where pornography has been mainstreamed. There […]
Read More...Operation Midland: Harvey Proctor criticises child abuse inquiry for ruining life
March 30, 2016 · By UK for www.bbc.com
A former MP, cleared of being part of an alleged VIP Westminster paedophile ring, said the Metropolitan Police’s inquiry “irreparably ruined my life”. Harvey Proctor, 69, had his home raided and was questioned as part of Operation Midland, which closed last week with no charges brought. He said the Met had enabled him to be […]
Read More...A child writes about trust.
March 28, 2016 ·
Children who are victims of abuse, exploitation or rape are children who have experienced a world where they see nothing but betrayal, hurt and lost of trust in adults and the adult world. Some don’t want to become adults and who would blame them. They seek and long for trust that is guarantees that […]
Read More...Radovan Karadžić’s sentence for Bosnia genocide exposes continuing divisions
March 28, 2016 ·
Victims say 40-year sentence is too lenient while many Serbs continue to support man who oversaw 1995 massacre at Srebrenica At the end of it all, 21 years since he was first charged, after 11 years on the run, a five-year trial and the 18 months the judges took to deliberate over a verdict, Radovan […]
Read More...Tough justice: On the trail of Philippine death squads
March 28, 2016 · By David McNeill in Davao, The Philippines for www.independent.co.uk
They came to kill her children one by one. First was Richard in 2001, then his brother Christopher. Bobby was taken from her the following year, and Fernando in 2007. Now Clarita Alia lives in fear that Arnold, her remaining son, is next. And far from protecting her shattered family, it is the police who […]
Read More...Bishops urge Filipinos not to crucify themselves
March 28, 2016 ·
Take care of the poor instead, they say as Good Friday approaches Give to the poor instead of inflicting pain on oneself, the country’s Catholic bishops told Filipinos, many of whom are known to subject themselves to extreme forms of penance like crucifixion and flagellation during Holy Week. “If you want to truly make a […]
Read More...NEWSWEEK ARTICLE ON ALLEGED HASIDIC CHILD ABUSE SPARKS BROOKLYN YESHIVA PROTEST
March 28, 2016 ·
Updated | About 40 protesters holding signs and chanting gathered outside the Ohlei Torah yeshiva in Brooklyn on a snowy Sunday evening in response to a Newsweek exposé on the alleged sexual and physical abuse of students by rabbis at the school. Chaim Levin, the protest organizer whose story of abuse at Oholei Torah was chronicled in the Newsweek article, on Sunday spoke […]
Read More...Operation Midland: Child abuse inquiry ends with no charges brought
March 23, 2016 · By UK for www.bbc.com
A Met Police inquiry into claims a VIP Westminster paedophile ring abused children in the 1970s and 1980s has closed without charges being brought, Scotland Yard has announced. The controversial Operation Midland ended as ex-MP Harvey Proctor was told he faces no further action over claims against him of child abuse and murder. He called […]
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