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Forgotten and invisible: modern-day slaves
December 9, 2019 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.org
In today’s modern world overshadowed by extravagant globalization, materialism and consumerism, it is very common for people to forget about people who are less fortunate. These people with relative fortune and comfort might get a jolt if asked what they think about slavery and slaves. In most cases, the answer is likely to be simple: […]
Read More...Legal breaches allowed Westpac customers to pay for child sexual abuse undetected, Austrac alleges
December 5, 2019 · By Ben Butler for www.theguardian.com
Westpac’s failure to obey anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance laws allowed a customer to make payments to a person in the Philippines who was later arrested for child sex trafficking and livestreaming child sexual abuse, the financial intelligence agency alleges. The allegation is just one of more than 23 million breaches of the law – involving more […]
Read More...Child Marriage Laws in the United States
December 5, 2019 · By Freedom United for www.freedomunited.org
States like New York fear that today’s laws are not doing enough to protect children, so they are looking at making it even harder for child marriages. Virginia state senator, Jill Vogel, was shocked when she heard about a 50+ year old man marrying a teenager. An investigation followed… Vogel is sponsoring a bill that […]
Read More...Tears and cheers for Pope Francis in Hiroshima
December 4, 2019 ·
In a somber and sometimes moving ceremony in Hiroshima, where testimony was heard from survivors of the city’s deadly 1945 atomic blast, Pope Francis stepped up his anti-nuclear weapon campaign, once more branding the very possession of such armaments as immoral. “With deep conviction I wish once more to declare that the use of atomic […]
Read More...Priests accused of abuse still getting paid by diocese, some for decades
December 3, 2019 · By Jay Tokasz for buffalonews.com
About two dozen Catholic Diocese of Buffalo priests removed from ministry due to child sex abuse complaints continue to collect a salary or pension from the diocese. Three of those suspended priests remain on the diocese’s payroll even though they haven’t functioned as clergy in more than 25 years, and six priests removed at least […]
Read More...Hiroshima bomb survivors recount ‘scene from hell’
November 29, 2019 · By ucanews reporter, Hiroshima for international.la-croix.com
Visitors looking at a photo of the Atomic Bomb Dome and around the area devastated by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, 17 July 2019. (Photo by EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA/MaxPPP) Survivors of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima have recounted the devastation caused by the bomb that killed […]
Read More...Back to basics for pope at huge Tokyo Mass
November 29, 2019 · By Michael Sainsbury, Tokyo for www.ucanews.org
Pope Francis went back to basics in delivering his homily in front of the biggest crowd of his trip to Asia: more than 50,000 people at the cavernous Tokyo Dome. He drew on what he described as Jesus Christ’s first great sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, and included the thematic of his Japan trip, […]
Read More...Is Government corruption behind harassment of Mother Teresa nuns?
November 27, 2019 · By ucanews reporter, Bhopal for www.ucanews.org
Some suspect political game in Indian state asking nuns to reopen care center shut down after baby-selling charges The Jharkhand government in eastern India has asked Missionaries of Charity nuns to reopen their children’s home that was shut down 16 months ago as police began probing baby-selling charges against the nuns. The state’s Child Welfare Committee […]
Read More...Deforestation is leading to more infectious diseases in humans
November 27, 2019 · By National Geographic for www.nationalgeographic.com
In 1997, clouds of smoke hung over the rainforests of Indonesia as an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania was burned to make way for agriculture, the fires exacerbated by drought. Smothered in haze, the trees couldn’t produce fruit, leaving resident fruit bats with no other option than to fly elsewhere in search of food, carrying with them a […]
Read More...Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps
November 26, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Leaked documents detail for the first time China’s systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps. The Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training. But official documents, seen by BBC Panorama, show how inmates are locked up, indoctrinated […]
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