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"US Church deeply proud of its women religious" Archbishop Peter Sartain
August 14, 2012 · , http://www.news.va/en/news/abp-sartain-us-church-deeply-proud-of-its-women-re
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle has released a statement praising the lasting contribution and continued work of religious women in the United States, for which, he says, they deserve our respect, support, thanks and prayers. The national assembly concluded August 10 in St Louis, Missouri. Over 900 delegates representing 80% of the United […]
Read More...Preda Child Rights Protection Volunteer, Paddy Barnes won a bronze medal in the Olympics
August 13, 2012 ·
Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes wins a bronze yet again in the Olympics in London in the light-flyweight semi-final he also won Bronze also in The Beijing Olympic games in 2008 which he displays here. He joined the child rights protection campaign of Preda Foundation (www.preda.org) during the Personality of the Year Awards 2008 when Fr.Shay […]
Read More...Keeping children safe in the Church
August 6, 2012 · , http://www.news.va/en/news/keeping-children-safe-in-the-church
(Vatican Radio) Helping survivors of sexual abuse. Ensuring that children are safe in the Church. And supporting religious congregations in their safeguarding endeavours. Those are three key concerns outlined in a new report from Britain’s National Catholic Safeguarding Commission which was published in London on Tuesday. While the fourth annual report highlights many positive developments […]
Read More...Atlanta's faith community unites to tackle sexual exploitation of kids
August 3, 2012 · , Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service , http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2012/07/atlantas-faith-community-unites-tackle-sexual-exploitation-kids
NORCROSS, Ga. (CNS) — Crystal Ward works hard helping people to think in new ways about the commercial sex industry and its victims. Young girls being forced to sell themselves for sex are not prostitutes, she told a group of 30 church leaders from throughout metropolitan Atlanta; the girls are victims of sexual exploitation in […]
Read More...Woman mentors girls to save them from becoming victims of trafficking.
August 3, 2012 · , http://www.catholicsun.org/2012/07/24/woman-mentors-girls-to-save-them-from-becoming-victims-of-trafficking/
ATLANTA (CNS) — The girls Keisha Head mentors today remind her of herself 15 or 20 years ago. They are from the margins: runaways from tough family circumstances, truant from school or on probation from the Fulton County Juvenile Court for one offense or another. And all are potential targets of predators looking to commercially […]
Read More...Violence and child abuse, red alert in Sri Lanka
August 3, 2012 · , Melani Manel Perera, Colombo (AsiaNews via CNUA)http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Violence-and-child-abuse,-red-alert-in-Sri-Lanka-25366.html
Colombo (AsiaNews) – It is red alert in Sri Lanka as incidents of violence, rapes and child abuse continues to grow: from January 2012, 975 cases were registered by the police and 20 thousand complaints received by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA). One of the last episodes that made headlines, concerns a 13 year […]
Read More...GERMAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE APPEALS TO PHILIPPINE SENATORS FOR CHILDREN
August 2, 2012 ·
Dear Minister, As we were in the Republic of Philippines last august for a visit, we were all very impressed by your engagement and determination to introduce and enforce the change of the system of justice, and the correctional system. It is a special concern to you, as it is to us, to obey children […]
Read More...Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
August 1, 2012 · By William J. Byron, S.J, FEBRUARY 16, 2009, America The National Catholic Weekly Magazine, http://www.americamagazine.org
Principles, once internalized, lead to something. They prompt activity, impel motion, direct choices. A principled person always has a place to stand, knows where he or she is coming from and likely to end up. Principles always lead the person who possesses them somewhere, for some purpose, to do something, or choose not to. In […]
Read More...No to COAL July 27, 2012
August 1, 2012 ·
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR
July 31, 2012 ·
Dear Friends, In the efforts to persuade the Federal Government from building more prisons in Nigeria, CURE-Nigeria has written the attached letter to the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR calling on him to place a moratorium on the construction of more prisons and show a genuine and honest commitment to prison reforms. Please circulate […]
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