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Today, more than ever, the earth and life are threatened by new and increasingly frightening ‘floods’ due to a perverse manipulation of Creation. But God is calling us to be like Noah! “Make your heart an ark to host and nurture life, and from there, send forth the dove of peace!”
Earth is not just home to humankind but to, at least, six million other species…In this sense, we can truly say that climate action is a pro-life issue that should involve all of us.
Global humanitarian assistance rose to record levels in 2014, reflecting the scale and scope of prolonged crises such as the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, as well as increased contributions from Middle Eastern donors, according to a study by the non-profit organization Development Initiatives.
Families across Asia continue to await information about loved ones who have forcibly disappeared while thousands of such individuals languish in unknown prisons around the region. “Asia has the most number of cases of enforced disappearance around the world,” said Mary Aileen Bacalso, secretary general of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearance (AFAD), on the occasion of this year’s observance of the International Week of the Disappeared. Bacalso said that, in Kashmir alone, some 8,000 young men vanished in the 1990s, most of whom are believed to be buried in unmarked graves.
Through 17 months of conflict, tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan and two million more displaced. Schools, health centers and markets have been looted and destroyed. It took a $1.8 billion humanitarian response last year for the country to avoid a famine. And it’s about to get even worse.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that two out of every three people in the world could be living under stressed water conditions in 10 years. The warning came as the U.N. marked the World Day to Combat Desertification last June 17 FAO said land degradation and desertification undercut human rights, starting with the right to food and water.
The maltreatment of children costs countries in East Asia and the Pacific US$209 billion per year, the equivalent to 2% of the region’s GDP, according to a newly-released study by UNICEF. The report drew on more than 360 studies of child maltreatment produced across the region since 2000, with emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, the witnessing of domestic violence and death from maltreatment, all given an estimated cost.
For more than 14 years, a group of Indonesian nuns has been developing organic farming methods to grow food while protecting the environment through a form of lay apostolate that has attracted the attention of many farmers, most of them Muslims.
One in five migrant workers – about 50 million people – lives and works in Europe, making the region home to a quarter of global remittance flows, according to a new report by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Despite the many scandals and problems hounding the Catholic Church, outsiders and even disgruntled former members, are baffled why many Catholics choose to remain in the fold. Only those who know what is at the core of the Church, no matter how rotten the outside has become, can truly understand why.
