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Global HIV toll likely to be far higher owing to COVID-19, warns UNAIDS
Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV / AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Thursday.
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“Set Your Captives Free”: ACN report on kidnapped and jailed Christians – Vatican News
Every month, more than 300 Christians in 50 countries of the world are kidnapped or unjustly jailed because of their faith. The dramatic figure emerges from the latest report by “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN), released on Wednesday.
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Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges UN agriculture agency chief
More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday.
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Religious Freedom Awards 2020 recognizes 3 Spanish Professors
“Mejora Foundation awards three prestigious teachers in the 7th Edition of the Religious Freedom Awards” The Church of Scientology Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society, in consultative status with the United Nations since 2019, presented the Religious Freedom Awards, in the form of a Tizona sword, to Prof. Dr. Alejandro Torres, Prof.…
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COMECE commits to divest from fossil fuels
In the context of the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical Laudato Si, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), together with other faith-based institutions, commits to divest from fossil fuels, following the Vatican’s guidelines on ethical investment. COMECE: “We encourage others to join us and support the European Green…
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KTR says people’s safety, not religion, important
… safety of people not their religion. Interacting with business people, realtors … people in the name of religion. I urge you all not …
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Buddhist Times News – His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Buddhism, Science and Compassion
By Bureau Reporter A member of the virtual audience asking a question during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s discussion with members of the Einstein Forum from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on November 25, 2020. Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel/OHHDL His Holiness the Dalai Lama was invited to take part in a discussion this…
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Pope Francis prays for late Diego Maradona – Vatican News
Pope Francis recalls Diego Armando Maradona in prayer following the Argentine soccer champion’s death at the age of 60 on Wednesday.
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US Bishops ask Americans’ support for religious retirement fund – Vatican News
Catholics in the US are invited to generously support the annual ‘Retirement Fund for Religious’ collection, which will be held December 12-13.
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Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion
… with the mainstream consensus religion of oligarchic imperialism”. … orthodoxy is essentially a religion, as fake and power … narratives as any other religion. But it lets its … adherents of the new dominant religion imprison journalists and deplatform …