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(Vatican Radio) Bishops of the Amazon region are working together to support new projects and initiatives that aim to safeguard and care for the Amazon biome.The Amazon biome, which covers parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon basin and some adjacent areas.This vast natural and cultural resource of the Earth is experiencing devastation and isthreatened by concessions transacted by nation states to transnational corporations. It is in this context that the Latin American Catholic Church has come to support farmers and Indigenous Peoples who deal with abuses by the extractive industries sector in the Amazon, which in turn are damaging the environment. Currently ongoing is the third Meeting of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network "REPAM-Colombia" which opened in Leticia on June 19 and scheduled to run until J...
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and young people of almost every age took to the mat across the globe on Wednesday for a yoga session to mark the 3rd International Yoga Day.  Rains failed to dampen the spirits of about 50,000 who joined an outdoor yoga session, June 21, with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in a park in Lucknow, capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh."Yoga has connected the world with India," Modi told a cheering crowd.  "Yoga is about health assurance. It is not even expensive to practice," said Modi who was instrumental in getting the United Nations declare the International Yoga Day in December 2014.  The first International Yoga Day was marked on June 21, 2015.   The physical, mental and spiritual practice which aims to transform both body and mind, began in ancient India, and is popular throughout the globe. The Modi's official Twitter handle, which has more than 30 million followers, has po...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has pledged to donate about half a million dollars to support Church-run education, healthcare and agricultural projects in South Sudan.At a press conference in the Vatican on Wednesday, Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the office for Integral Human Development, led a panel of speakers giving details of those humanitarian projects, run by Caritas and by missionaries from different religious institutes. The cardinal also outlined numerous initiatives that the Holy See has taken to stop the war, which flared across the country in 2013.Listen to Philippa HItchen's report: Pope Francis may have postponed a planned visit to war-torn South Sudan this year, but he’s clearly more determined than ever to raise awareness about the need to support those suffering from conflict and starvation.Over half the population doesn’t have enough food to eat, a million and a half people have fled their homes, thousands are suffering from a cholera epidemic an...
SINGAPORE (AP) -- A "Downton Abbey" movie is in the works, with production likely to begin in 2018, an NBCUniversal executive said Wednesday....
BOSTON (AP) -- Thinking of getting your kid the wildly popular fidget spinner? A consumer watchdog group is warning parents to think again....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Authorities say a man gunned down a woman believed to be his wife during an argument on a major Chicago expressway before he shot and killed himself....
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Officials on Wednesday evacuated an airport in Flint, Michigan, where a witness said he saw an officer bleeding from his neck and a knife nearby on the ground....
DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) -- Republican Karen Handel declared victory in Georgia's 6th Congressional District with a promise that she'll work to gain the confidence of voters who backed her Democratic opponent....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. pushed China Wednesday to rein in companies that deal with North Korea after President Donald Trump tweeted ahead of the high-level talks that Beijing's efforts to sway its wayward ally weren't working....
BEIJING (AP) -- Beer-soaked "booze cruises" down North Korea's Taedong River. Scuba diving trips off the country's eastern coast. Saint Patrick's Day pub crawls in Pyongyang featuring drinking games with cheery locals....
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