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Category: World Touch
World Touch

Old Mobile Phones Provide Gold for Africa

A Catholic organization in Korea is raising funds for African children by collecting used mobile phones to recover valuable parts for sale. The Korean Catholic Solidarity for the Integrity of Creation, on Oct. 2, donated 44 million won (about US$40,000) to the Sisters of Christian Doctrine in Andong. It discovered that dilapidated cell phones, mostly discarded as waste, contain valuable parts that can be turned into money for supporting children in central Africa affected by civil war and environmental problems.

Stephen Hong

Christians are the “Most Persecuted”

Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, European bishops have told a Brussels conference. A report issued this week by the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) said that at least three-quarters of all religious persecution was directed at Christians, the Catholic Herald reports. In the report, the bishops urged the European Union to apply more pressure to countries around the world that failed to protect the religious freedom of their citizens. They called on the EU’s foreign ministry, headed by the Labor peer Lady Ashton, to set up a “religion unit” to promote the cause of religious freedom more effectively.

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World Touch

Hall of Fame for World Mission

After having been distinguished as the Best Local Community/Parish Newspaper for the last three consecutive years, World Mission was awarded a Hall of Fame trophy at the 32nd Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA).

World Mission
World Touch

Say “Yahweh” instead of “Allah”?

Several representatives from the Malaysian government, such as Minister Idris Jala, a Christian, are visiting the Christian communities in Malaysia, trying to convince Christian citizens to abandon the term “Allah” and use “Yahweh” in the texts in the liturgy and in publications.

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Unemployment Triggers Social Unrest

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the high levels of unemployment caused by the financial and economic crisis have already caused social unrest in at least 25 countries. And the situation can deteriorate worldwide because this United Nations work agency foresees a long labor market recession that will affect even some recovering emerging economies.

Julia Kollewe
World Touch

Climate Change and Extreme Weather

Extreme weather is one of the clearest signals that climate change is happening. During the first part of August 2010, news of extreme weather in various parts of the world was seldom off the headlines. Pakistan suffered its worst monsoon-related floods in 80 years. More than 1,600 people were reported dead, though the real number is probably a multiple of that figure. Rivers burst their banks sweeping away houses, food crops, roads and bridges, leaving areas, such as Gilgit Baltistan, cut off from the rest of the country. The extreme flooding in the Swat valley was partly due to the fact that, since the Taliban took over, the area’s forests had been chopped down at an alarming rate. By the end of the first week of August, it was estimated that around 12 million people have been affected.

Fr. Seán McDonagh, SSC
Taizé

Ecumenism of Holiness

World Christian leaders are paying tribute to the ecumenical community of Taizé in eastern France, which is marking its foundation in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz (see photos), who died in 2005. In a message to Brother Alois, who now heads the community, the Pope described Schütz as a “pioneer in the difficult paths toward unity among the disciples of Christ.” And considered the founder’s “ecumenism of holiness” as an inspiration in “our march toward unity.”

Stephen Brown

Non-Catholics Influenced Council’s Liberalization

A new analysis of voting patterns among bishops at the Second Vatican Council points to the indirect influence of non-Catholic Churches in the Council’s liberalization of the Catholic Church.

www.upenn.edu/pennnews
World Touch

Church’s Missionary Role is to Reveal Jesus

In today’s world, marked by loneliness and indifference, Christians must learn to offer “signs of hope,” “cultivating the great ideals that transform history” and the world. This calls for better awareness and to “show” Jesus and His message of love to the world. This is the underlying meaning of World Mission Sunday – which will be celebrated October 24 – explained by Benedict XVI in his message devoted to it.

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255 Killed and 700 Kidnapped in CAR and DRC

More than 700 adults and children have been abducted in a largely unreported massive abduction campaign started by the Ugandan rebel, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in Central African Republic (CAR) and the neighboring Bas Uele district of northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), denounces Human Rights Watch (HRW). Nearly one-third of those abducted are children, many of whom are being forced to serve as soldiers or are being used for sex by the group’s fighters, the report says.

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