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(Vatican Radio) A major study released on Wednesday suggests that children even as young as 12 years, working up to 13 hours a day, might be typical of Bangladesh’s poorest young people.Earning less than £60 a week under conditions that are hostile even for adults, has become inevitable for the country’s teenagers, after the family’s financial problems force them out of school into a full-time job. This is true of 15% of children between 6 and 14 years of age of the poorest neighborhoods of Dhaka. The figure rises to 50% among those under 14.The thousands of Bangladeshi children who live in the capital's slums are working illegally for an average of 64 hours a week, with many employed by the garment industry making clothing for top global brands, according to a report released by the Overseas Development Institute.The survey of 2,700 slum households, carried out by the Institute, among the largest conducted in the south Asian country, found two-thirds o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has told a Catholic association of farmers not to sacrifice the rhythms of agricultural life for monetary gains.His address to the International Catholic Rural Association (ICRA) came on Saturday in the Vatican’s Consistory Hall.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: The International Catholic Rural Association promotes the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of agriculture, as well as international food security.In his remarks, Pope Francis praised the association’s “concern for rural life, grounded in the vision of the Church’s social doctrine”.He said, “It is an eloquent expression of that imperative to ‘till and keep the garden of the world’ (Laudato Si’, 67) to which we have been called, if we wish to carry on God’s creative activity and to protect our common home.”Despite the centrality of agriculture to human life, the Holy Father said it is paradoxical that &...
The Secretary General of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat Fr. Hagos Hayish, C.M., has said the occasion of the Golden Jubilee, next year, would be marked by bringing together all partners of the Ethiopian Church who have supported the Church throughout the years in spreading the Gospel and serving the people. “The Catholic Church’s contribution to the ongoing development efforts of the country has been tremendous for more than a century, and since the establishment of the Secretariat, we have been rendering these services in a more coordinated manner all over the country. Our Partners have travelled this journey with us all the way; we plan to mark our Golden Jubilee during the coordination meeting as we hope it will give us the opportunity to officially thank our partners and recognise their contribution,” said Fr. Hagos.Ato Bekele Moges, the Executive Director of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat’s Social and Development Commission, said that the ...
