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To supply modern lighting to over 250 million Sub-Saharan Africans by 2030 in an ecological and inexpensive manner without the use of fossil fuel is the goal of a ‘Lighting Africa’ initiative launched with the contribution of the World Bank.
In a 13-page report, the Fides news agency of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples takes a look at the death penalty, calling it “cruel and unnecessary.”
The therapeutic potential of spirituality has always been a point of discussion. It emerged from the results of a recent survey published in ‘Archives of Internal Medicine’ magazine that one third of Americans turn to prayer as a source of good health.
For his pivotal role in the integral growth of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), the Ateneo de Manila conferred the Bukas Palad Award upon Fr. Edward F. Malone, a Maryknoll Missionary.
Benedict XVI said, in a meeting with volunteers that closed his trip to Austria, that human societies need volunteerism. “Love of neighbor is not something that can be delegated,” the Pontiff said. “The state and the political order, properly concerned with the relief of the needy and the provision of social services, cannot take its place.”
The environmental magazine Grist has rated Pope Benedict, who rides an electric popemobile and has installed solar power at the Vatican, as among the world’s top religious leaders on “green” issues.
“In some of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, there are no toilets – private or public” said the London-based NGO End Water Poverty, after a survey and the world campaign ‘Water and Sanitation for Everyone’.
Bombay archdiocese in western India plans to launch a campaign against tax evasion. Father Anthony Charanghat, the archdiocesan spokesperson, said the world’s “socially unjust” tax havens, along with tax evasion by wealthy firms and individuals, directly affect the welfare of the poor.
Kidnapping has plagued Colombia since 1933. But, since the 1990s, it has become widespread, as common criminals, drug-traffickers, guerrilla groups and paramilitaries use kidnapping as a means to attain their economic or political goals.
The death seven years ago of an American missionary priest, Fr. John Kaiser, who had helped teenagers pursue rape allegations against a former Kenyan government minister, was murder and not suicide, an inquest has found.
