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Listen to the children who suffered clerical sex abuse
April 30, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter for www.ucanews.com
Church leaders cannot properly approach the issue of sexual abuse without listening to and being engaged by the experience of those who have suffered, says the moderator of the Vatican’s February summit on child sexual abuse. “Their suffering is due not only to abuse suffered but also to the fact that they have not been […]
Read More...Amnesty International says ‘state sponsored’ hackers targeted Hong Kong base
April 29, 2019 · By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day for www.zdnet.com
Amnesty International’s Hong Kong office has been hit with a cyberattack that the group says is the work of a state-sponsored team whose tactics are consistent with those supported by the Chinese government. The London-based group said on Thursday night that the cyberattack was first detected on 15 March 2019 on the Hong Kong arm’s local IT […]
Read More...Pope’s Way of Cross will shine light on women ‘crucified’ by traffickers
April 26, 2019 · By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service for www.catholicnews.com
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Countless women and girls are being “crucified” by human traffickers, who trick them into slave labor or prostitution, and by those who seek out their services and exploit them, said the missionary nun who wrote the meditations for Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross service. Victims of human trafficking are people […]
Read More...On Good Friday, pope hears harrowing stories of human trafficking
April 26, 2019 · By Philip Pullella for www.reuters.com
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis led Good Friday services dedicated to the victims of human trafficking and the plight of migrants, denouncing leaders with “armored hearts” who exploit their plight for political gain. Francis, marking his seventh Easter season as Roman Catholic leader, presided at a traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) service at […]
Read More...Police charge Indian bishop with raping nun
April 25, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, New Delhi for www.ucanews.com
Police have charged Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar with raping a Catholic nun multiple times, nine months after she complained in southern India’s Kerala state. The police team probing the allegations filed charges on April 9 before a magistrate in Kottayam district, where the nun’s convent is based. A 2,000-page charge sheet listed charges of […]
Read More...Viewpoint : How likely is an Assange conviction in US?
April 25, 2019 · By Jonathan Turley for www.bbc.com
The arrest and expected extradition of Julian Assange has set into motion what could prove to be the most important free speech and free press case in our history. Or not. Assange has been charged with a single count of participating in the hacking of intelligence computers with Chelsea Manning to reveal controversial intelligence operations […]
Read More...One in 10 child asthma cases ‘linked to traffic pollution’
April 24, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Four million cases of childhood asthma could be caused by air pollution from traffic – around 13% of those diagnosed each year, a global study suggests. Current pollution guidelines may need changing because most children developing asthma live in areas within recommended levels, the authors say. South Korea has the highest burden of pollution-related asthma, […]
Read More...Extinction Rebellion: Climate change protesters at Natural History Museum
April 24, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Extinction Rebellion activists took over part of the Natural History Museum as the climate change protest entered its second week. About 100 people lay down under the blue whale skeleton at about 14:15 BST. It comes as more than 1,000 people have been arrested since the protests began in central London a week ago. The […]
Read More...China’s ‘genocide’ unlike any other
April 23, 2019 · By Benedict Rogers for www.ucanews.com
China may be committing what one expert, journalist Ethan Gutmann, author of The Slaughter, describes as “a form of genocide cloaked in medical scrubs.” Or what British MP Fiona Bruce, chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, described in a debate in parliament last week as “a crime against humanity and … potentially nothing less […]
Read More...Bishops’ summit on sex abuse: An Asian perspective
April 22, 2019 · By Virginia Saldanha, Mumbai for www.ucanews.com
The voices of survivors and advocates rallying against clerical sex abuse echoed around newsrooms and living rooms the world over when bishops met in Rome from Feb. 18-26, making it a hallowed ground of the wounded. The 190 bishops at the summit heard the testimonies of a few survivors, live-streamed into the hall. The organizing committee […]
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