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Lahore, Pakistan, Sep 2, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Women farmers in Pakistan received helping hands last month from Caritas Pakistan, the Catholic bishops’ arm for social development.The agency sponsored a four-day workshop to help women farmers develop their skills and economic competitiveness, with a focus on environmental sustainability.“Empowering and strengthening the skills of women plays an important role in community development and agriculture is one of the important sectors,” Amjad Gulzar, executive director of Caritas Pakistan, told CNA Aug. 30.Gulzar said the event aimed to bring together women farmers and beneficiaries of women empowerment groups and entrepreneurship programs, providing a platform for them “to voice their issues and gather relevant learning skills from one another.”The third Women Farmers Conference, held in Lahore Aug. 16-18, brought together 140 women from across Pakistan. This year’s theme was “Empowe...
BEIJING (AP) -- As coaches take notes, teenagers dribble footballs through a course of cones on Ritan Middle School's gleaming artificial field in eastern Beijing, part of a massive program to promote soccer as a pillar of China's rise to global prominence....
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- State police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have been known to patrol in a tractor-trailer so they can sit up high and spot drivers texting behind the wheel....
KOLKATA, India (AP) -- As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride....
BEIJING (AP) -- China's hosting of the Group of 20 industrialized nations summit highlights its role as the world's second-largest economy and a growing force in global diplomacy, but also comes amid sharpening frictions over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, disputes with fellow regional powers South Korea and Japan and criticisms over a sweeping crackdown on dissent at home....
PINLEBU, Myanmar (AP) -- The hills of northern Myanmar's Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were ordered into the woods as a death sentence. Today illegal logging has left vast swaths of bare patches, with only a handful of old-growth stands....
ZARQA, Jordan (AP) -- Intissar Ghozlan's two youngest boys haven't been in school since the family fled from Syria to Jordan two years ago. There's no space in local classrooms, and the boys, 12 and 14, can "barely write their names," having forgotten most of what they learned back home, she says....
HAVANA (AP) -- Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump will visit a predominantly black church in Detroit this weekend and, his campaign says, "outline policies that will impact minorities and the disenfranchised in our country." It's the latest move in the Republican presidential nominee's outreach to non-whites....
CARRABELLE, Florida (AP) -- Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida's Big Bend area early Friday as the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade....
