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Nobel laureates and eminent leaders around the globe will meet in the Indian capital New Delhi next month to discuss why children suffer the most in conflicts though they don't cause them, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said on Thursday. "Children are never responsible for any wars, conflicts or violence, yet they are the worst sufferers in any such hideous situation. This is completely unacceptable," he said while announcing a global initiative for children. Through the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, the 2014 Nobel laureate is convening the first gathering of "(Nobel) Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit" that will see a global participation. The Dec. 10-11 summit will be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee at his Rashtrapati Bhavan residence. About 25 Nobel laureates and others have confirmed their participation in the summit which will also attract eminent personalities from academia, corporate secto...
Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has handed over a hundred new houses to the internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps in the Tamil-majority north of the island nation. "We can finally live in peace. We can thank our president for this settlement" some of the beneficiaries told AsiaNews. The houses were built in record time (four months) in Keeramalai, on the Jaffna peninsula as a result of his visit to the Konartpulam IDP camp in Tellippalai, Kankasenthurai, shortly after his election. Inaugurated on 31 October in a solemn ceremony, the houses were built by the army, but also by former Tamil Tiger rebels and the beneficiaries themselves. The Keeramalai Housing Project covers an area of 47 acres, near the Palaly army cantonment area. It also has a community centre, a fish market, a police station, a playground and a nursery.This initiative is not the first of its kind. The p...
Rome, Italy, Nov 5, 2016 / 09:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For religious sisters working to end forced-prostitution through human trafficking, there is one thing consistently left out of the conversation: the clients – who they are and how they are dealt with.“We are especially looking at the problem of clients. It’s a topic no one talks about. Everyone talks about victims, victims, victims. It’s true, women become victims – of the passion of men,” Sr. Monica Chikwe told journalists Nov. 4.She pointed to how in the bible, there was a woman who had been caught in adultery and brought to Jesus, but “if in the act of adultery, I ask ‘where is the man?’ No one speaks about the man.”“It’s the same thing today. Many speak about the victims, but who is using these victims? Who is the client?” Sister Monica asked, explaining that the clients aren’t homeless living on the street or men with some sort of mental dis...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy is lifting job growth and wages but not voters' spirits....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Tens of thousands of South Koreans poured into the streets of downtown Seoul on Saturday, using words including "treason" and "criminal" to demand that President Park Geun-hye step down amid an explosive political scandal....
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Long on swagger and short on time, Donald Trump declared Saturday he would spend some of the last hours of the presidential campaign in Democratic strongholds, promising to pull off a shocker in states that haven't voted for a Republican in decades....
The idea had never occurred to the Rev. Adam Hamilton at the conclusion of past presidential campaigns. But this Election Day, the megachurch he leads in the Kansas City suburbs will invite congregants, and anyone else who chooses, to stop in and pray for the nation to heal itself....
(Vatican Radio) One of the things Pope Francis has stressed over the course of this Jubilee of Mercy has been welcoming the stranger, especially at a time when migrants are fleeing areas of conflict in the world and looking to make a better life in Europe and in countries, such as Australia.The city of Melbourne in Australia can boast a wealth of diversity and is the country’s most culturally diverse city with people from over 200 countries making it their home. In the Archdiocese of Melbourne itself groups including the Italian and Polish communities have been getting into the spirit of this extraordinary year according to their own traditions.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's interview with Archbishop Denis Hart Welcoming migrantsThe Archbishop of Melbourne and President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Denis Hart highlights the contribution they have made saying, “our cities and some of our country areas represent a great amalgam of people from al...
Washington D.C., Nov 5, 2016 / 04:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For years, the American Medical Association has held a strong stance against measures promoting physician-assisted suicide. But that could change.Recently, the American Medical Association announced that it is reconsidering its position, prompting groups such as the Society of Catholic Social Scientists to speak out, urging that they maintain a firm “no” to “intentionally induced deaths.”“Our organization strongly urges you not to change your policy,” stated an Oct. 31 letter from Society of Catholic Social Scientists president, Dr. Stephen M. Krason.“Your organization has enormous influence in the shaping of public policy concerning healthcare and medical issues and a change in your position would almost certainly give momentum to the effort to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the U.S.”Over the past few years, a handful of states have legalized physician-assisted suicide....
