Caritas Japan calls for volunteers in wake of floods and heat-wave in western Japan
Caritas Japan has called for volunteers to help in the aftermath of the floods and subsequent record-breaking heat-wave which have stricken western parts of the nation, killing almost 300 people, in recent days. Caritas worker Aine Ono told Catholic news agency Agenzia Fides that the affected dioceses of Hiroshima and Takamatsu were “encouraging people to join […]
THE BIG PICTURE: GOD’S MERCY IS BIGGER
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Sex scandals will not hurt charities as Britons pledge to keep giving – survey
Thomson Reuters Foundation Charitable donations will not be hurt by a series of sex scandals that have rocked the sector this year, a YouGov survey said last week, with four out of five Britons promising to give the same amount of money, or more, to good causes. The future of aid appears bright, it said, […]
Syria offensive leaves 55,000 children without aid
Thomson Reuters Foundation An estimated 55,000 Syrian children are cut off from aid and risk starvation after an offensive by President Bashar al-Assad triggered the single biggest displacement of the bloody seven-year war, humanitarian organisations said late last week. Government forces backed by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria in the last month […]
CHINA: XINJIANG’S CHILDREN IN ORPHANAGES AS THEIR PARENTS HELD IN RE-EDUCATION CAMPS
World Watch Monitor reports on the plight of minority groups in China’s Xinjiang province…
ESSAY: ‘HUMANAE VITAE’ – SEX AND AUTHORITY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Fifty years after it was first released, Catholic priest THOMAS REESE looks at how the dispute among Catholics over the controversial papal encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae’ wasn’t just about sex but about church authority itself…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE SCOURGE OF MENTAL ILLNESS
NILS VON KALM looks at the issue of mental illness – and our response to it…
Churches call for an end to violence in Nicaragua
The World Council of Churches has joined in calls for an end to violence in Nicaragua, with the general secretary, Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, describing the level of state repression as “unacceptable”. In a statement issued late last week, Tveit said the number of civilian casualties – estimated at more than 300 killed and […]