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World Report

The Climatic Cost Of A Glass Of Milk

A simple glass of milk on the breakfast table can carry high environmental costs. Because of this, some farmers and scientists are looking for ways to reduce the impacts of agriculture and livestock, which are responsible for 12 to 14% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. There are already studies to measure the climatic cost of that glass of milk, or of a country’s entire milk production, from raising the cow to the final product on the table.

Raúl Pierri | Inter Press Service (IPS)

WM Special

A Menace To Tourism And The Poor

Tourism is a major source of revenue and employment, particularly for the developing nations of the world. But climate change and global warming are risking to dry up the source, mainly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The crisis is considered so serious that it is the theme of the UN international meeting that will take place at the end of the month in Peru.

Manuel Giraldes | Journalist

WM Special

Small Islands’ Warning

By demonstrating that climate change compromises basic human rights and halts socioeconomic development, the Maldives hopes to instill a moral and ethical imperative for the international community to take substantial action against it. For 20 years, they have been warning that island-states are especially vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

Shiraz Deen | Inter Press Service (IPS)

Wildlife Sanctuary

The world-renowned Kruger National Park in South Africa is a wildlife haven. In its area of nearly 2 million hectares, the unrivalled variety of life forms fuses with historical and archaeological sights, and offers tourists an unforgettable experience of the beauty and diversity of the wild.

José António M. Rebelo | Comboni Missionary

African Insight

The Best Placed To Change Policies

Christian churches – and it is important to underline churches, that is to say the major historical Christian churches, with their lay members – in spite of shortcomings, have kept a high reputation in most African countries. They remain the best placed institutions to compel African governments to redraw policies for the protection of the poorest and most vulnerable groups.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary

Frontline

Dreaming Of Education

Death of parents, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, family breakdown and lack of love push children to the streets. It is estimated that there are over 60,000 street children in Nairobi. The Koinonia community has a few rescue centers for them where, from April up to December, they learn to live as a family and prepare to be welcomed in one of their houses in January of the following year. One of them is in Kibera slum.

José António M. Rebelo | Comboni Missionary

Missionary Vocation

Dom Franco’s Bicycle

He wanted to be an ordinary Comboni missionary and joyfully give his life to the poor of Northern Brazil but the good Lord called him to be a successor of the Apostles. He embraced the courageous program of fostering life, and the good Lord protected him from the threat of violence. His natural giftedness and scholarly preparation made him a champion of a new missionary mystique. The bicycle on which he died became the symbol of his simple and popular approach to the ideals of liberation theology.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary

The Last Word

God Favors The Poor

What are we to make of Matthew’s first Beatitude ‘How happy are the poor in spirit’? Does it counter or qualify Luke’s version of the Beatitude which simply declares ‘Happy are the poor’? Why the discrepancy between the two Gospel writers? What is Matthew trying to say and can it be used to somehow soften our preferential option for the poor?

Michael Elphick | Education Consultant

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