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Pope: Raise awareness about “scourge” of human trafficking
November 10, 2016 · By en.radiovaticana.va
(Vatican Radio) On Monday, Pope Francis spoke out against human trafficking, in an address to members of RENATE: Religious in Europe Networking against trafficking and exploitation). The group is in Rome for their 2nd European Assembly, which took place on Sunday. The theme of this year’s assembly was “Ending Trafficking Begins with Us.” In his […]
Read More...Ireland has “a duty to reach out to” refugees with compassion
November 10, 2016 · By Sarah Mac Donald for www.catholicireland.net
Fr Shay Cullen describes Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award as “a statement that all life is precious … and each has invaluable dignity and every one is worth saving”. Fr Shay Cullen has described the Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award, which was presented to him on Saturday night in Co Kerry, as “a statement that […]
Read More...British campaigners warn of emergency over online child sexual abuse
November 9, 2016 · By Esther Addley for www.theguardian.com
NSPCC report suggest more than half a million men in the UK may have viewed child sexual abuse images online Child exploitation campaigners have warned of a looming “social emergency” after a report by the NSPCC suggested more than half a million men in the UK may have viewed child sexual abuse images on the […]
Read More...Ireland to accept 80 refugees a month as country’s ‘model response’ to crisis is praised
November 7, 2016 · By Ralph Riegel for www.herald.ie
Ireland will accept up to 80 people a month from the Mediterranean who are fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria. Refugee Applications Commissioner David Costello ack- nowledged that progress has been slow in getting people into Ireland from the camps set up in Italy and Greece following the migrant crisis. The revelation came as 250 […]
Read More...Journalist killed every 4.5 days, says UNESCO
November 4, 2016 · By Agence France-Presse for www.rappler.com
Most deaths – 59% over the last two years of the 2006-2015 report – happen in conflict zones. During that period, 78 of the 213 journalists killed (36.5 percent) were in Arab States. PARIS, France – One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by UNESCO on Wednesday, November 2. […]
Read More...Australian who sought sex with 6-year-old boy imprisoned in US
November 3, 2016 · By Agence France-Presse for newsinfo.inquirer.net
LOS ANGELES—An Australian scientist who traveled to California to have sex with a six-year-old boy was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison by a US federal judge. Michael Quinn, 33, a geneticist from Melbourne, was arrested in May by federal agents after his arrival at a Los Angeles area hotel where he had arranged […]
Read More...Calais: fears grow for dozens of children amid chaotic camp shutdown
October 28, 2016 · By Lisa O'Carroll, Alan Travis and Mat Heywood in Calais for www.theguardian.com
Charities fear for safety of unregistered minors as French officials try to declare clearout complete and fires ravage camp Scores of unaccompanied children remain unaccounted for in an increasingly chaotic situation at the Calais refugee camp, where French authorities tried to declare that it would be completely cleared at the end of the day. Charities […]
Read More...Church offers addicts ‘concrete hope’
October 27, 2016 · By www.cbcpnews.com
MANILA, Oct. 24, 2016— A parish-based center for the treatment of drug addicts was launched in the Archdiocese of Manila on Sunday, offering concrete hope and a chance to change to countless drug dependents. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle believes that drug addiction is about “spiritual warfare” – good and evil battling against each other. “We […]
Read More...California man gets 1,500-year jail sentence for raping teenage daughter
October 24, 2016 · By The Associated Press for www.theguardian.com
Judge says 41-year-old man who raped his daughter two to three times a week over four years is a ‘serious danger to society’ A Californian man was sentenced to 1,503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period. The 41-year-old was sentenced on Friday to the longest-known prison sentence in Fresno […]
Read More...FBI help rescue dozens of trafficked children
October 21, 2016 · By www.manilatimes.net
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with representatives from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and several international law enforcement partners, rescued 82 minors and arrested 239 traffickers and their associates in operations carried out in the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia. The arrests were made under Operation Cross Country, an international effort […]
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