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(VATICAN RADIO) Save the Children has released a shocking report titled: “Unequal Portions. Ending Malnutrition for Every Last Child”.The report contains information about the 159 million children who are suffering from chronic malnutrition across the world. According to the report, despite a global commitment to eradicate malnutrition by 2030, current trends indicate that there will still be 129 million children under the age of five with stunted growth worldwide.Katie Ascough spoke with Simona Seravesi, consultant at Save the Children Italy, who first highlighted the main factors which influence child malnutrition.Listen: “In many countries, malnutrition is linked to poverty, to very low hygienic and health conditions, lack of access to education…even inequality due to the different ethnic groups,” said Ms. Seravesi. She also mentioned that sometimes gender, crises, migration, civil war, and natural disasters can contribute to the ...
(Vatican Radio) Romanian police have broken up a human trafficking gang in central Romania which misused children and other vulnerable people as slaves since at least 2008. The latest operation in which at least 40 people were rescued comes amid international pressure on the European Union member state to tackle organized crime. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Romanian police zoomed in on the mountain town of Berevoiesti. Special police forces made a horrific discovery in this area,some 150 kilometers northwest of the capital Bucharest: Video footage showed a man chained up at a home. And police found two other men and two boys aged between 10 and 12 in chains. They raided homes where they also discovered 50,000 euros and a kilo of gold. When the operation finished dozens of victims had been rescued. Organized-crime prosecutors believe some 90 suspects exploited and abused around 65 vulnerable people, some with physical and mental disa...
Vatican City, Jul 14, 2016 / 11:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Alongside other global institutions such as the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee, German-based insurance carrier Allianz has partnered with the Vatican for a sports conference aimed at exploring the benefits of faith and sport, and to put these into action.Announced in a July 14 press release from the Pontifical Council for Culture, the partnership between the Vatican and Allianz, a European financial service company with headquarters in Munich, centers on an Oct. 5-7 conference titled “Sport at the Service of Humanity.”Set to take place in the Vatican, the conference will draw 150 leaders from the world of sport, faith, business and civil society to establish the principles for “a new movement” in sports.Leaders, the press release states, will discuss “how sport and faith working together can improve and enhance the lives of those who most need it in many different walks of l...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A mobile medical unit donated by theVatican tours Rome's peripheries, offering free health care to thosein need. A local volunteer association of doctors, health careprofessionals and medical students use the white and blue-striped RV-stylevehicle, which carries Vatican City license plates and the Holy See's coat ofarms -- two keys topped by a papal crown. Dr. Lucia Ercoli, director the Istituto di MedicinaSolidale, told the Vatican newspaper that using a medical unitwith Vatican license plates lets the migrants, "who live in truly inhumaneconditions" in the forgotten corners of Rome, see and experience "thecloseness of the pope and the church."Of the people they serve, many are women, includingexpectant mothers, as well as children, people who have been tortured in theirhome country and parents whose children drowned in the sea during their dangerousjourney to Italy, she said in an interview published July 13.The associati...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, ReutersBy WASHINGTON(CNS) -- In a bipartisan 245-182 vote, House members July 13 passed the ConscienceProtection Act, which would provide legal protection to doctors, nurses,hospitals and all health care providers who choose not to provide abortions aspart of their health care practice."We'regrateful to House Speaker Paul Ryan for bringing the Conscience Protection Actto a vote, to all the co-sponsors for their leadership, and to those members ofboth parties who support the civil right of conscience," said Cardinal TimothyM. Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore in a statement.Thecardinal is chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities andthe archbishop heads their Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty."Eventhose who disagree on the life issue should be able to respect the consciencerights of those who wish not to be involved in supporting abortion," they said.Themeasure, also known as H.R. 4828, also provid...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Theweek had been emotionally draining at the predominantly black parish in Oakland, California. Along with the rest of the country, they had felt theweight of two more fatal shootings of black men by police.Then things gotworse July 7 when a sniper opened fire and killed five police officersduring a march in Dallas where people were protesting the fatal shootings.Two days later, FatherJayson Landeza, pastor of Oakland's St. Benedict Catholic Church, declared therewould be no homilies during his Masses that weekend and instead allowedparishioners to do the talking during that time. What he and those gathered at St. Benedict's heardwas sadness, pain, fear."My voice was notimportant," said Father Landeza, a priest who finds himself in the middle ofcommunities colliding with each other this summer. As national leaders call forunity and calm, particularly between black communities and law enforcement, itis up to chaplains like Father Landeza to shepher...
TROON, Scotland (AP) -- Phil Mickelson pointed his putter toward the hole and was ready to step right into major championship history Thursday in the British Open....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As throngs of "Pokemon Go" players traipse around to real-world landmarks in pursuit of digital monsters, some ticked-off property owners are asking to have their locations in the fictional Poke-verse removed....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The final moments before Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul revolved around a gun he was licensed to carry, trained to use safely and instructed to tell authorities about when stopped....
LONDON (AP) -- He's insulted everyone from the president of the United States to the people of Papua New Guinea. Now the remarkably undiplomatic Boris Johnson, his political career miraculously revived, has become Britain's top diplomat....
