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Category: World Touch
China/India

Frontiers Row

The Indian Embassy in Beijing has begun stamping Chinese visas with a map showing disputed border territory between the two countries as belonging to India. The move comes in apparent retaliation to China’s newly–revised passports, which shows Arunachal Pradesh State and the Himalayan region of Aksai Chin as Chinese territories. India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has described the Chinese passport map as “unacceptable.” China is a longtime weapons supplier to Pakistan and, as such, is viewed in New Delhi with deep suspicion. While for Beijing, the presence on Indian soil of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and 120,000 other exiles from Tibet, is a source of resentment.

www.guardian.co.uk/
Israel

World’s Most Militarized Nation

Israel tops the list of the world’s most militarized nations, according to the latest Global Militarization Index released by the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC). At number 34, Israel’s main regional rival, Iran, is far behind. Indeed, every other Near Eastern country, with the exceptions of Yemen (37) and Qatar (43), is more heavily militarized than the Islamic Republic, according to the Index, whose research is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

www.ipsnews.net/ Jim Lobe
U.S.A.

A Cross–cultural Spiritual Explorer

Sister Kateri Mitchell was born and raised at the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation along the St. Lawrence River. She grew up hearing stories about Kateri Tekakwitha, the 17th–century Mohawk woman who was declared a saint in the Roman Catholic Church on October 21. Hundreds of people visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, NY on Saturday, July 21, 2012. The shrine is the site of the 17th–century Mohawk village of Ossernenon. Three French Jesuit missionaries were martyred there in bringing the Catholic faith to the new world. A stained glass window of Kateri Tekakwitha is in the Martyrs and Kateri Chapels. Kateri, a Mohawk, was born here.

Renee K. Gadoua
Milan

Farewell to a Church’s Giant

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan, was buried on September 3. Born in 1927, he died on August 31, at 85, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. During the three days that his body laid in state in Milan’s Duomo, over two hundred thousand people passed quietly before his mortal remains to pay their respects and give thanks to God for their beloved shepherd. His funeral, which was attended by a big crowd, was very much like a state funeral, televised throughout Italy and in many other countries.

Manuel Giraldes | Journalist
India

Leprosy on the Rise

India has recorded more than 127,000 fresh cases of leprosy in 2011-12. Junior Health Minister Sudip Bandyopadhyay said the state of Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 24,627 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 17,892 cases and Bihar, with 17,801. According to the Waorld Health Organization (WHO), India accounted for 54% of the total number of leprosy cases detected worldwide in 2010, which came to 228,474.

Ritu Sharma
Philippines

Banking Breast Milk to Save Lives

The Philippine government’s state-run breast milk bank is intensifying collection efforts to boost breastfeeding among the poor and help women return to work immediately after giving birth if they want to do so. Hundreds of women come to deliver their babies at the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, the busiest maternity institution in Manila, the capital, where more than 12 million people live. Many women are barely able to afford even the minimal payment and, to help cover their costs, some of them donate breast milk to the hospital’s milk bank, which is used to feed babies whose mothers have lactation problems.

Irin News

Is a New Food Crisis Brewing?

The international media jumped at the lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way. But a range of economists and food experts also warne against overreaction that could create panic, causing governments to apply export controls that would restrict supplies of grains. This would affect markets and push prices still higher, they say.

Irin News

Is a New Food Crisis Brewing?

The international media jumped at the lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way. But a range of economists and food experts also warne against overreaction that could create panic, causing governments to apply export controls that would restrict supplies of grains. This would affect markets and push prices still higher, they say.

Irin News
Philippines

Fewer Filipinos Marry Due to Poverty

Fewer Filipinos have been tying the knot in the past decade as marriage has taken a low priority for courting couples because of rising poverty. The recent National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) Report on the declining number of marriages from 2001 to 2010, particularly church weddings, was “only a manifestation of the poverty and helplessness of the majority in our country today,” said Pangasinan Rep. Kimi Cojuangco.

UCA News
Taiwan

A Story of Courage and Compassion

The Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd has launched an initiative to support women and children experiencing domestic abuse. The numbers are shocking. In Taiwan, in 2008 alone, there were 75,438 cases known to the government. In 2009, the number rose to 83,728; in 2010, to 98,720. Approaching women and their children who are victims of domestic violence, giving them the courage to denounce their men and also assisting in psychological terms to help them create a new and safer life are among their tasks. This is the support service recently started by the Sisters, which has now become a documentary, to raise public awareness of family violence and encourage the public to be aware of their right to a safe and secure existence.

www.asianews.it
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