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European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to boost border controls to ease the influx and to send 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to international agencies helping refugees at camps near their home countries.
As the first pope in history to address a joint session of Congress, Pope Francis, defending the human right of masses of oppressed and poor people to immigrate, said: “We must not be taken aback by their number, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.”
Big problems usually start small. And so do social and societal evils. Even the simple act of trading, when done unjustly, has an impact on a small group of people, usually the powerless, and can have a lasting, sustained and systemic consequence on how things are done globally.
Pollution costs Beijing 1.6 million lives per year, 17% of all deaths; 92% of Chinese people breathed at least 120 hours of unhealthy air between April and August 2014; 38% of the people live, on average, in an atmosphere harmful to health, according to U.S. environmental parameters. This was discovered by scientists at the University of Berkeley, who conducted research on Chinese territory using Google Maps platform that Beijing has blocked nationwide.
While coming from two very different backgrounds, two Marys have made a very positive impact on Indian people. While their approaches are very different, their goal is the same – to let people know of God’s love for them.
