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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 […]
Read More...Report claims Myanmar military planned Rohingya genocide
August 2, 2018 · By John Zaw, Mandalay for www.ucanews.com
Myanmar’s military made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks on Rohingya before an August 2017 clampdown in northern Rakhine State, an international rights group has claimed. Fortify Rights has documented mass killings, rape and arson attacks against Rohingya and has called on the United Nations Security Council to urgently refer the situation in Myanmar to […]
Read More...After decades of silence, nuns talk about abuse by priests
August 2, 2018 · By Nicole Winfield and Rodney Muhumuza for www.washingtonpost.com
VATICAN CITY — Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — […]
Read More...Ireland becomes world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels
August 1, 2018 · By Damian Carrington for www.theguardian.com
The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support in the lower house of parliament. The state’s €8bn national investment fund will be required to sell all investments in coal, oil, gas and peat “as soon as is practicable”, which is […]
Read More...‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ rails against prosperity Gospel and its support for Trump
August 1, 2018 · By Massimo Faggioli for international.la-croix.com
Exactly one year ago the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica (LCC) published a very important article on the peculiar political ecumenism being forged in the United States between a subset of Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants. It sparked an interesting debate, to say the least. Conservative Catholics were especially scathing in their criticism of the LCC article because it struck them at […]
Read More...Pope Francis accepts resignation of Australian archbishop convicted of sex abuse coverup
August 1, 2018 · By Chico Harlan for www.washingtonpost.com
ROME — Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic Church leader to be convicted in a criminal court of concealing sexual abuse, the Vatican said. The move comes as Francis faces a new wave of challenges about how to how to handle not only priests who have […]
Read More...Sri Lanka auteur irks church with film about killer priest
July 31, 2018 · By Susitha R. Fernando, Colombo for www.ucanews.com
Sri Lankan filmmaker Chandran Rutnam’s latest flick According to Mathew is stirring controversy ahead of its release, with the Catholic Church saying it casts Catholics in a bad light in this Buddhist-majority country. The film portrays the true story of Father Mathew Peiris, a sexually abused Anglican priest who had an affair with his secretary and later murdered her husband Russel Ingram […]
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