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True religion is not about believing a set of doctrines but, rather, about falling in love with God and learning how to love everyone, despite the individual’s creed.
Indian police have rescued hundreds of child slaves, as young as six, during days of raids on workshops in the central city of Hyderabad, a senior officer said.
Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year, according to watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. “There has been an overall deterioration linked to very different factors, with information wars, and action by non-state groups acting like news depots,” said Christophe Deloire, head of the Paris-based group.
AIDS has become the leading cause of death for adolescents in Africa and the second leading cause of death among adolescents globally, international health agencies recently said.
As homeless men and women line up under the massive arms of Saint Peter’s colonnade waiting to take advantage of the Vatican’s newly-christened showers and barbershop, volunteers who assist them say they are deeply moved by their encounter with a population often rejected by society.
Late last year, the Italian government scrapped its Mediterranean search and rescue operation of the Mare Nostrum after funding shortages. The project was partially replaced by Operation Triton – but the service is far more restricted than its predecessor, both in geography (the patrols only go up to 30 miles off the Italian coast) and budget (roughly a third of Mare Nostrum). Critics have said it could leave tens of thousands of migrants at far greater risk.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to protect all religious groups, in an apparent response to a series of recent attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi fueling concerns that minorities are being targeted by Hindu extremists.
As fighting continues in northern Myanmar, along China’s southern border, the government of Beijing is grappling with a flood of refugees, as well as questions about how Chinese authorities should respond to the conflict.
It struck at 3:35 a.m. last week, in the darkness of the night; a loud rattling grew in intensity as the roof tiles went off like castanets clacking and clicking, rising to a crescendo as the building shook violently.
For some, it takes a great personal tragedy that leaves them totally beaten black and blue, to recognize that God is there, ready to carry us. For others, living a life in worldliness and sin, even to the point of death, leads them to a catharsis, a liberating realization that God and goodness have been residing in them all along. Ultimately, however, the decision to go with God or to continue living as if one were already dead rests in each one of us. God, however, has lit that tiny spark of goodness in us – we need only to fuel it by sharing that goodness with others.
