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COCOA, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities in Florida say a group of teens watched and laughed as a man drowned in a retention pond last week....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Was it Tom Sawyer in Samuel Clemens' billiard room with a revolver?...
KOS, Greece (AP) -- A powerful overnight earthquake shook holiday resorts in Greece and Turkey, injuring nearly 500 people and leaving two tourists dead on the Greek island of Kos, where revelers at a bar were crushed in a building collapse....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An escalating dispute over metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem shrine turned violent on Friday, setting off widespread clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Three Palestinians were killed and several dozen injured by live rounds, rubber bullets and beatings, medics said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American citizens will be barred from traveling to North Korea next month following a prohibition on using U.S. passports to enter the country, the State Department said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary Sean Spicer is resigning his position, according to two people with knowledge of the decision....
(Vatican Radio) Two young men have died and nine others have been injured during Venezuela's twenty four hour nationwide strike.Listen to James Blears' report Masked protesters built baracades on deserted streets torching some CARS and throwing stones at riot Police, who responded with tear gas rounds. The Opposition claims that 85 percent of Venezuelan workers throughout the country heeded their call and joined the strike. While the Government said the majority of companies are working normally with minimal disruption. President Nicolas Maduro is warning: "I've ordered the capture of all the fascist terrorists." President Maduro is still going ahead with the July 30th election for the Constituent Assembly he announced on Mayday. The Opposition is boycotting the process and stress they'll oppose it.The Constituent Assembly will divert power away from the opposition controlled National A...
(Vatican Radio) Two young men have died and nine others have been injured during Venezuela's twenty four hour nationwide strike.
Listen to James Blears' report
Masked protesters built baracades on deserted streets torching some CARS and throwing stones at riot Police, who responded with tear gas rounds. The Opposition claims that 85 percent of Venezuelan workers throughout the country heeded their call and joined the strike. While the Government said the majority of companies are working normally with minimal disruption. President Nicolas Maduro is warning: "I've ordered the capture of all the fascist terrorists."
President Maduro is still going ahead with the July 30th election for the Constituent Assembly he announced on Mayday. The Opposition is boycotting the process and stress they'll oppose it.
The Constituent Assembly will divert power away from the opposition controlled National Assembly.
No talks, no concessions, no compromise, deepening crisis and a welling despair for many.
Vatican Weekend for July 22nd, 2017 features part 2 of our 3-part series where we delve deeper into the history and art of Rome’s three-tiered Basilica of San Clemente, an official from the Caritas network speaks of the severe acute malnutrition afflicting many people in parts of East Africa and we end with an inspirational story of a former prostitute who left the profession and set up a shelter to help others escape from the sex trade.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 22nd, 2017 features part 2 of our 3-part series where we delve deeper into the history and art of Rome’s three-tiered Basilica of San Clemente, an official from the Caritas network speaks of the severe acute malnutrition afflicting many people in parts of East Africa and we end with an inspirational story of a former prostitute who left the profession and set up a shelter to help others escape from the sex trade.
Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 23rd, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” South Africa’s Ambassador to the Holy See shares with us his memories of the late President Nelson Mandela and we explore why the holy city of Jerusalem so often becomes a flashpoint.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 23rd, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” South Africa’s Ambassador to the Holy See shares with us his memories of the late President Nelson Mandela and we explore why the holy city of Jerusalem so often becomes a flashpoint.
Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
The Catholic Church in India’s extreme northeast has just concluded a vocational training programme for dropout girls and women to enable them to earn a living and help their families. Seva Kendra Arunachal East (SKAE), the social service wing or the local branch of Caritas of the Diocese of Miao in east Arunachal Pradesh state, concluded a six-month tailoring course and awareness programme for dropout girls and women on 20 July. The course that started on January 19, concluded with a function at its training centre in Namphai-I, Changlang district, during which certificates and sewing machines were distributed to the best trainees.Speaking to those who completed the training, Bishop Pallipparambil of Miao advised them to use the training to make a living for them and their family. “The certificate and the tailoring machine you receive today have no meaning if you keep them locked in your suitcases,” said the bishop who is presi...
The Catholic Church in India’s extreme northeast has just concluded a vocational training programme for dropout girls and women to enable them to earn a living and help their families. Seva Kendra Arunachal East (SKAE), the social service wing or the local branch of Caritas of the Diocese of Miao in east Arunachal Pradesh state, concluded a six-month tailoring course and awareness programme for dropout girls and women on 20 July. The course that started on January 19, concluded with a function at its training centre in Namphai-I, Changlang district, during which certificates and sewing machines were distributed to the best trainees.
Speaking to those who completed the training, Bishop Pallipparambil of Miao advised them to use the training to make a living for them and their family. “The certificate and the tailoring machine you receive today have no meaning if you keep them locked in your suitcases,” said the bishop who is president of SKAE.
The training programme is meant to provide a livelihood to the girls and women who drop out of school due to multiple factors, with lack of schools and early marriage being the primary reasons. All the 30 girls who received training for the last six months are from Tirap and Longding districts of east Arunachal Pradesh, which have the second lowest literacy rate in the state with 52.19%.
Sr. Rincy SH, the Director of SKAE and her team have a singular aim of helping these dropout girls and women to learn a living. Apart from the vocational training programme, SKAE is involved in various women empowerment activities in the eight districts of eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh. Formation of Self Help Groups, weaving, carpentry, wood carving, basket making, awareness programmes on women and child care, medical camps in collaboration with government medical staff, paramilitary forces, Caritas India, the diocese’s KBM Hospital and other civil bodies, are some of the activities SKAE conducts throughout the year. The Director thanked Sr. Pushpa CM, the Chief Programme Coordinator of the training and all other staff who made the training programme a success.
