THIS LIFE: WOULD YOU GIVE UP GIVING GIFTS THIS CHRISTMAS?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, wrestles with the commercialisation of Christmas…
Missing Catholic priest found in Bangladesh, then detained for being “mentally unstable”
World Watch Monitor A Catholic priest who went missing in Bangladesh days ahead of a visit by Pope Francis has been found alive, but there is still confusion over the circumstances of his disappearance. Father Walter William Rozario, 41, is said by his family to have escaped from his captors and called his brother from […]
Among children, AIDS epidemic is far from over, UNICEF finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation Eighteen children every hour were infected with HIV last year, a sign of scant progress in protecting the world’s young from the deadly AIDS-causing virus, the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Friday. At the current rate of infection, there will be 3.5 million new cases of HIV among adolescents by 2030, […]
From Nepal to Nigeria, UK aid aims to save 500,000 people from slavery
Thomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of thousands of people who have survived modern slavery or risk becoming enslaved in nations including Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria will receive support through a £40 million ($US54 million) aid package, the British government said on Friday. Half of the money will be split between tackling forced labour among women migrant […]
POSTCARDS: IN KENYA, A HIV-POSITIVE PASTOR AND HIS WIFE MODEL NEW THINKING ABOUT AIDS
As World AIDS Day was marked on 1st December, FREDRICK NZWILI reports on how one pastor and his wife are showing there is a different way to treat people with HIV and AIDS…