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As many as 1.4 million people could be infected with Ebola by mid-January 2015 if efforts to quarantine the epidemic aren’t taken immediately, according to predictive models released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently.
In a recent report, Amnesty International said a rising number of Chinese companies are profiting from the trade of the so-called “tools of torture,” which include electric shock-stun batons, metal-spiked batons and weighted leg cuffs. The London-based group says 130 mostly state-owned Chinese companies now produce and trade the equipment. That is up from just 28 a decade ago.
Is Japan a spiritual-oriented or materialistic society? The answer is definitively spiritual, according to the most recent national livelihood survey by the Cabinet Office. The highest percentage of Japanese ever – 64% – said they are now placing priority on “spiritual fulfillment” rather than “material richness.”
A new translation of the Bible into modern Persian, which was recently launched in London, marks a significant moment for Christianity in Iran.
China has pledged to take firm action on climate change at the U.N. Climate Change Summit in New York and said it will ensure its carbon dioxide emissions peak as early as possible. Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said in a speech that China will “make greater effort to more effectively address climate change.” He said China will announce post-2020 actions on climate change “as soon as we can” and that these would include “marked progress in reducing carbon intensity” and “the peaking of total carbon dioxide emissions as early as possible.”
“Contrary to ideologies that claim families are falling apart in Senegal, the family is commonly conceived according to Christian and Muslim models.” This was the frank statement made by Senegal’s bishops at the 38th National Assembly held in Popenguine between 15 and 19 September. Two hundred priests, out of the 400 present in the whole country, met for their biennial assembly, to address the situation on African families.
In Mexico, approximately 45,000 children and young people have been abducted and are victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking of organs. This is the complaint made by the Foundation for the Research of Missing and Abducted Children.
In 2013, the world witnessed the largest displacement of religious communities in the world. Millions of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and others representing a range of faiths were forced from their homes on account of their religious beliefs. Out of fear or by force, entire neighborhoods are being emptied of residents. Communities are disappearing from their traditional and historic homes and dispersing across the geographic map. In conflict zones, in particular, this mass displacement has become a pernicious norm.
“The U.S. is indirectly responsible for what is going on in Iraq as it said it would ensure democracy and the well-being of the people but 10 years have passed and, on the contrary, we have gone backward,” Patriarch Louis Sako told reporters at Beirut’s airport.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says access to food is becoming a major concern for many people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The three countries have suffered the worst of the Ebola virus disease outbreak. Neighboring countries are not faring any better foodwise.
