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Malka Leifer: Rape-accused for extradition to Australia
June 1, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Malka Leifer: Rape-accused for extradition to Australia An Israeli woman facing 74 child sex charges in Australia is mentally fit to face extradition, a court has ruled. Malka Leifer, the former principal of a Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne, fled to Israel in 2008 after accusations were raised against her. Extradition hearings were delayed for […]
Read More...Pope Francis’ Message for 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees
June 1, 2020 · By ZENIT STAFF for zenit.org
Pope Francis’ Message for 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees The following is the Vatican-provided text of the Message of the Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2020, to be held this coming September 27, on the theme: “Like Jesus Christ, forced to flee. Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating internally […]
Read More...China’s Mekong dams have grave consequences for SE Asia
May 29, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Bangkok for www.ucanews.com
China’s Mekong dams have grave consequences for SE Asia China’s frenzied damming of the Mekong River upstream for hydroelectricity generation has had devastating consequences for people living alongside Southeast Asia’s longest river, experts say. The authors of a new study explain that the cascade of dams on the upper part of the river has altered […]
Read More...Indian Jesuit network helps migrants stranded by lockdown
May 29, 2020 · By Saji Thomas for www.ucanews.com
Indian Jesuit network helps migrants stranded by lockdown Niranjan Mohanty was stunned when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave only four hours’ notice of the start of a nationwide lockdown on March 24. For the prime minister, it was a measure to contain the spread of Covid-19. For millions like Mohanty, it meant poverty and hunger. The […]
Read More...Vatican announces Laudato Si’ anniversary year
May 29, 2020 · By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.com
Vatican announces Laudato Si’ anniversary year The Vatican will commemorate the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment with a yearlong series of initiatives dedicated to the safeguarding and care for the Earth. The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced a “Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year” from May 24, 2020, to May […]
Read More...Alarm as Covid-19 spreads into Amazon
May 28, 2020 · By Barbara Fraser, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.com
Alarm as Covid-19 spreads into Amazon Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.” Indigenous people who suffer violence for their efforts to defend their land against miners, loggers and land grabbers are also at great risk from Covid-19, according to […]
Read More...Jesuits mourn former superior general
May 28, 2020 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
Jesuits mourn former superior general The Jesuit General Curia in Rome has announced that its former superior general, Father Adolfo Nicolás, died on May 20 in Tokyo, Japan. He was 84. He was a member of the Jesuit community of Loyola House in Kamishakujii and had been ill for several years. A statement said he is […]
Read More...The curious case of South Asia’s ‘low’ coronavirus deaths
May 28, 2020 · By Asad Hashim for www.aljazeera.com
Islamabad, Pakistan – Scientists and public health experts are continuing to conduct research into why some South Asian countries – despite their ramshackle health infrastructure and dense populations – have witnessed lower coronavirus mortality rates compared with many Western countries. By early May, the world’s richest countries accounted for more than 90 percent of all reported deaths from […]
Read More...Chicago boy, 12, shot to death in NW Indiana
May 27, 2020 · By Luke Wilusz for chicago.suntimes.com
Chicago anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes said Demetrius Townsel’s twin brother tried to save his life by putting pressure on the wound. A 12-year-old Chicago boy was killed in a shooting Saturday in Gary, Indiana. Demetrius Townsel Jr. was shot near 26th Avenue and Pierce Street in Gary, according to the Lake County coroner’s office. He […]
Read More...Philippines paying the steep price of being largest nurse exporter
May 27, 2020 · By Raul Dancel, Philippines Correspondent In Manila for www.straitstimes.com
Philippines paying the steep price of being largest nurse exporter It had become so bad that at one point, all she was dreaming about was blood. “It was just blood everywhere,” Ms Romina, one of close to 20,000 registered Filipino nurses now living in Britain, told The Straits Times. In March, when Britain was in […]
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