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Sudan alert: Flooding and surging inflation threaten humanitarian assistance
Catastrophic flooding and rising food and health costs in Sudan, have driven up the number of people in need, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.
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Pope Francis greets new Swiss Guard recruits – Vatican News
Ahead of the October 4th Swiss Guard swearing-in ceremony, Pope Francis on Friday receives 38 new members of the Corps, telling them the oath they will take is also “a declaration of fidelity to your baptismal vocation.”
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Emmanuel Macron’s plans to protect French values alienate Muslims
… -million-strong Muslim community —western Europe’s largest — … of mosques and private religious schools, bar foreign imams … Islamic groups. “The real subject is the battle against political Islam … was always hidden through religion.” “Nobody …
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Cardinal Tagle: Season of Creation a call to rediscover our vocation as stewards – Vatican News
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, highlights the Season of Creation as a time to celebrate in prayer and also to rediscover our vocation as stewards of creation.
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To Cuba, With Gratitude: Local Author Recalls the Island as a Haven for Jews in New Book
Last December, Ann Arbor resident Ruth Behar returned to Havana, her place of birth, to put the finishing touches on her newest novel, Letters from Cuba. She stayed in the same apartment building where she lived her first five years until 1961 — when her …
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Pandemic sparks critical reflection on journalism
AMMAN, Jordan — Earlier this year, as the pandemic was sweeping across the globe, something unusual happened in news reporting—profound ideas about social transformation and acts of solidarity were making headlines worldwide. Although less pronounced now, news outlets continue to feature such stories, many of which would have been considered irrelevant or insignificant before the…
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Rahman, stateless, abused, and stuck in limbo
… police handed him a 500 euro fine for breaking coronavirus … to go missing when their European dreams were shattered. According to … ’t return to his strictly religious family: he now smoked, … exclave, Melilla. This gateway to Europe is enclosed with high barbed …
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Annual report: Pandemic recovery must be measured in ‘human rather than economic terms’
We must “commit” to building a more inclusive and sustainable world, the UN chief underscored in his annual report on the Work of the Organization, launched on Thursday.
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COE’s Secretary General warns of humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh
Strasbourg, 01.10.2020 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, made the following statement today: “As the armed conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh escalates with a growing number of civilian casualties, I mourn the deaths of the many people, including civilians, who are falling victim to the hostilities. No political considerations can justify the horror…
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Who won the debate? Remembering how God measures success
… is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” may have contributed to … liberty take precedence over religious liberty or they do … government-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. And a Texas … seven books, including “Radical Islam: What You Need to …