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Saving Lives by Donating Plasma: Why Are Shincheonji’s Good Deeds Ignored?
Eileen Barker, Europe’s most senior scholar of new religions, notes in her entry “New Religious Movements” in the 2020 SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religions, that “one does not often see reports of the charitable work in which many of the NRMs engage,” even if it is sometimes “outstanding.” That this happens, is evidence…
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Bishops of Australia, US welcome new Encyclical “Fratelli tutti” – Vatican News
Following the publication of the Pope’s encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” on Sunday, Bishops in the United States and Australia highlight his important appeals for solidarity and human fraternity.
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COVID-19 disrupting critical mental health services, WHO warns
The global pandemic has disrupted critical mental health services in 93 per cent of the countries it surveyed, underscoring the devastating impact of COVID-19 and highlighting an urgent need to scale up funding, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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New centre of excellence on humanitarian and health emergencies inaugurated in Istanbul
On 10 September 2020, the WHO European Centre for Preparedness for Humanitarian and Health Emergencies was formally inaugurated at a colourful ribbon-cutting ceremony, led online by Dr Fahrettin Koca, Minister of Health of Turkey, in Istanbul, and Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, in Copenhagen. Also participating in the ceremony were…
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Harness ‘transformative potential’ of urbanization for people and planet
Commemorating World Habitat Day, top UN officials on Monday called for urgent action to provide low-income families and vulnerable populations more secure affordable housing and easy access to water, sanitation, transport and other basic services.
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U.S. Repatriated 27 Americans from Syria and Iraq
… on other nations, particularly in Western Europe, to take responsibility for their … Jihad Ali received military and religious training and served as fighters …
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‘Fratelli Tutti’ challenges our country and our church
… dream of a united Europe, capable of acknowledging its … the situation of the European Union, the note about … economic, political, social and religious project” (Paragraph 69). … Christians in unique ways, but it challenges all. (It challenges the Catholic …
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Fratelli tutti: ‘Don’t just read it, pray it’ – Vatican News
Fr Kevin Irwin suggests “Fratelli tutti” should be both read and prayed because it is “nothing less than about a way to reread and to live the Gospel for our times”.
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Home schooling will be “strictly limited”, Macron announced
home schooling will be “strictly limited”, Macron announced
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ECHR grants an interim measure in the case of Armenia v. Azerbaijan
On 29 September 2020, taking the view that the current situation gives rise to a risk of serious violations of the Convention, the European Court of Human Rights (sitting as a Chamber of seven judges) decided to apply Rule 39 of the Rules of Court. With a view to preventing such violations and pursuant to…