World News
Australian nun wins another reprieve in Philippines
August 13, 2018 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
An Australian missionary nun ordered deported last week by Philippine authorities is not leaving the country just yet. Sister Patricia Fox, of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, won a reprieve after her lawyers filed a motion for reconsideration on July 22. “The deportation order cannot be enforced until it becomes final…. With the filing of […]
Read More...Cardinal: Fight racism with love to honor MLK’s legacy
August 13, 2018 · By www.catholicnewsagency.com
Washington D.C., Jan 11, 2018 / 12:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Americans must recommit to the fight against racism through love and faith, said the head of the U.S. bishops’ conference in the days leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “In recent years – including last summer in Charlottesville – we have glimpsed an […]
Read More...Church’s language about LGBT people must end, Irish group says
August 13, 2018 · By Sarah Mac Donald for www.ncronline.org
DUBLIN — An Irish group campaigning for reform in the Catholic Church has launched a petition ahead of Pope Francis’ papal visit in August to Ireland calling on the Vatican to change its “theological language that is gravely insulting to LGBTQI people.” (The initials stand for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.”) We Are Church Ireland is encouraging […]
Read More...‘I was kidnapped in London and trafficked for sex’
August 13, 2018 · By Sarah McDermott for www.bbc.com
Anna came to London from Romania intending to study, but first she needed to earn some money. She took temporary jobs – waitressing, cleaning, maths tutoring. Then one day in March 2011 she was snatched off the street, flown to Ireland and put through nine months of hell. Anna was nearly home. There was just […]
Read More...UN troops in child abuse scandal
August 9, 2018 ·
Over the past 15 years, the United Nations (UN) has recorded more than 1,700 allegations of sexual abuse by its peacekeepers in conflict zones around the world — from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Kosovo, and from East Timor to Haiti. Why has the problem persisted, despite the UN’s efforts to stamp out […]
Read More...Monsanto’s ‘cancer-causing’ weedkiller destroyed my life, dying man tells court
August 9, 2018 · By Sam Levin for www.theguardian.com
Dewayne Johnson said that if he had known what he knew now about Roundup weedkiller, “I would’ve never sprayed that product on school grounds … if I knew it would cause harm … It’s unethical.” Johnson, a former school groundskeeper in northern California who is terminally ill, was testifying on Monday in his landmark suit against Monsanto […]
Read More...35 Disney Employees Arrested On Child Sex Charges In Less Than 10 Years
August 9, 2018 · By Andy Campbell for www.huffingtonpost.com
At least 35 Disney employees in and around Florida have been arrested and accused of sex crimes involving children since 2006, CNN reports as part of a six-month investigation. So far, 32 of those cases have resulted in convictions. “Wherever you find children, you’ll find sexual predators that want to be there,” said Polk County Sheriff […]
Read More...New drug for recurring malaria
August 3, 2018 · By Smitha Mundasad for www.bbc.com
A new drug to treat malaria has been given the green light by authorities in the United States. The medicine is specifically for the recurring form of malaria – caused by the parasite plasmodium vivax – which makes 8.5 million people ill each year. This type of malaria is a particular challenge to get rid […]
Read More...The importance of youth
August 3, 2018 ·
The importance of youth From Barak Obana’s speech in South Africa 2018 “…..And that’s what we need right now, we don’t just need one leader, we don’t just need one inspiration, what we badly need right now is that collective spirit. And, I know that those young people, those hope carriers are gathering around the […]
Read More...Truth and Freedom of Speech
August 2, 2018 ·
Truth and Freedom of Speech. Barak Obama in South Africa 2018. “…..Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up. They just make stuff up. We see it in state-sponsored propaganda; we see it in internet driven fabrications, we see it in the blurring […]
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