January, 2020
Sir David Attenborough warns of climate ‘crisis moment’
January 27, 2020 ·
“The moment of crisis has come” in efforts to tackle climate change, Sir David Attenborough has warned. According to the renowned naturalist and broadcaster, “we have been putting things off for year after year”. “As I speak, south east Australia is on fire. Why? Because the temperatures of the Earth are increasing,” he said. Sir […]
Read More...Filipinos beware, Don’t go to Cyprus
January 27, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has launched an appeal against her conviction. The 19-year-old had denied causing public mischief and on Thursday lawyers filed the grounds for her appeal at the supreme court of Cyprus. She is now back in the UK after receiving a suspended jail term. […]
Read More...Children in danger by harmful internet content
January 27, 2020 · By By Andy McFarlane, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Doctors demand social media data It can provide instant access to information, communication with friends and online support. Children’s screen time might even occasionally offer respite to frazzled parents. But doctors worry it could harm both body and mind, and report a growing number of children self-harming and attempting suicide as a result of online […]
Read More...Protecting Children Online
January 24, 2020 ·
Protecting Children Online Fr. Shay Cullen January 24, 2020 There is a powerful force for good or evil that is present everywhere. You can’t see it, you can’t feel or hear it, yet it is in your home, in the school, the office and almost everywhere. It is the wi-fi signal that connects anybody and […]
Read More...In the face of Duterte’s attacks, a pattern of silence
January 24, 2020 ·
Catholic bishops in the Philippines have largely been silent in the face of President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated attacks on both clergy and doctrine. The closest the bishops’ conference has come to an institutional response was when its president issued a statement last November defending a bishop that Duterte had falsely accused, by name, of a crime. “Many, […]
Read More...Tough action sought in Pakistan on child marriage
January 24, 2020 · By Zahid Hussain, Karachi for www.ucanews.org
Rights activists and the mother of a 14-year-old Christian girl allegedly abducted and converted to Islam, have called on the Sindh provincial government in Pakistan to enforce a law that outlaws child marriage in the province. Huma Masih, an eighth-grade student in Karachi, went missing in October last year. A few days later, the girl released a […]
Read More...South Asia’s rape scourge and moral degradation
January 24, 2020 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka, Bangladesh for www.ucanews.org
Seven years after the brutal gang rape and death of a college student on a bus in India’s federal capital New Delhi, a Court issued an execution order for four convicts on Jan. 7. The 2012 barbaric assault on a 23-year-old medical student triggered massive street demonstrations and a nationwide reckoning over rape and sexual […]
Read More...Pastor, 60, is found guilty of multiple rapes against children and adults in his congregation over 20 years – with help from his wife – after one brave victim’s family secretly filmed him confessing
January 23, 2020 · By JOE MIDDLETON FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A ‘feared’ evangelical pastor is facing jail after he used his trusted position to abuse children and adults in his congregation over 20 years, with help from his wife. Self-styled prophet Michael Oluronbi, originally from Nigeria, was found guilty of the offences against six women and a man – five of whom attended his church. In […]
Read More...Church sexual abuse: French priest Preynat admits ‘caressing’ boys
January 23, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A former French priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of Boy Scouts has admitted “caressing” children in ways he knew were wrong, at the beginning of his trial in France. “It could be four or five children a week,” Bernard Preynat, 74, told the court in Lyon on Tuesday. He is accused of assaulting at […]
Read More...Pope Francis compares child sex abuse to human sacrifice
January 23, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Pope Francis has promised concrete action to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a Roman Catholic Church summit on paedophilia. Clergy guilty of abuse were “tools of Satan”, the Pope said, pledging to face every case with “utmost seriousness”. Child sex abuse, he said, reminded him of the ancient religious practice of child […]
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