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Category: World Touch
Holysee

The Responsibility to Protect the Planet

The human being is not a threat to the environment, but rather its steward, says the Holy See. This was affirmed by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, before the Second Committee of the 63rd session of the U.N. General Assembly. “It is often said that we have to defend the environment,” the Archbishop said. “The term ‘defense’ could mislead us to see a conflict between the environment and the human being. In this forum, we speak of ‘protection’ or ‘safeguarding.’

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United Nations

Pope Asks for an End to Unbridled Speculation

Benedict XVI says world hunger has its roots in a variety of issues that can be summarized by a false perception of the values that should regulate international relations. The Pope affirmed that national selfishness, unbridled speculation, corruption, consumerism and arms races are consequences of this false perception. He said this in a message for World Food Day ‘08, sent to the director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This year’s theme for the U.N. day was “World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy.”

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DR Congo

Another Catastrophe is Looming

The situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is at risk of turning into a humanitarian catastrophe, unless further reinforcements are given to the UN peace-keeping troops so that they can protect civilians, Amnesty International warned. “We urge the Security Council to send immediate assistance to UN troops in the form of additional troop numbers, air support and other equipment. Only then will they be able to disrupt armed group attacks against civilian populations and enforce the UN arms embargo on the DRC, in line with their existing mandate,” said Tawanda Hondora, deputy director of the African Program.

Amnesty International
Philippines

World Mission Wins Two CMMA

World Mission has been granted two prizes by the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) on October 29. Our magazine was distinguished as the Best Local Community/Parish Newspaper, repeating last year’s feat; and it won for the Best Special Feature – a prose authored by Frs. José Rebelo and Dave Domingues titled A Farm of Hope and published in its issue of April-May 2008. It was a reportage made in Masbate Island, in a farm belonging to the Fazenda da Esperança chain where, through work, community life and prayer, Filipino youth are being rescued from drugs, alcohol and other self-destructive dependences.

José Rebelo | Editor

A Good Tool To Help Save The Earth

Mathis Wackernagel knows better than most of the threats our planet is facing. The executive director of Global Footprint Network believes it is possible to study and solve our ecological problems. His non-profit organization, which works with everyone interested in sustainable development – from governments to corporations and NGOs like the World Wildlife Fund – has no magical solutions, just a well developed tool that is still being perfected. It aims to measure humanity’s demand on the Earth’s resources and the capacity of the planet to deal or not to deal with human activities.

Manuel Giraldes | Journalist
L’osservatore Romano

“Greed Of Managers” Behind Financial Crisis

The only real growth registered in the current financial crisis has been “the commissions, profits of the banks and bonuses for the managers,” Italian economist Ettore Gotti Tedeschi says in an article in Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

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Parish Donates 15% Of Its Income To Development

A Korean Catholic parish has donated over $100,000 or 15% of its annual income to build houses in Bangladesh and to provide food for people in Burundi. Pungam-dong Church in Gwangju (Kwangju), 270 kilometers south of Seoul, made the offer through Caritas Coreana. Fr. Thomas Koh Eul-sik and three of his parishioners went on purpose to Seoul to deliver the funds.

UCA News
World

Without Development, Peace Will Not Be Achieved

Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga has told the United Nations that a lack of leadership is delaying the achievement of Millennium Development Goals and appealed to leaders of industrial nations to lower carbon emissions. The Cardinal was addressing the summit on development and climate change at the invitation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The Cardinal urged the world leaders to make “courageous decisions and fulfill past promises,” so as to achieve the development goals by the original deadline of 2015.

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Chile

Put Man At The Center Of The Economy

The financial crisis under way in the United States should remind us that the human person must be at the center of the economy, affirmed the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, during a visit he made recently to Chile.

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Vatican

Catholics, Not Fundamentalists

The Pontifical Biblical Commission has published a new document entitled “The Bible and Morality” ahead of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God. It states, according to a Catholic News Service report: even when it comes to morality, Catholics are not biblical fundamentalists, although they view the Bible as an important source of moral guidance; the various books of the Bible were written in different epochs, in different cultures and by different authors, the scholars said, so when looking for moral precepts, a Christian cannot focus on just one line.

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