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Vatican Weekend for April 23rd, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus we shine the spotlight on the Marian icon of the Salus Populi Romani picking up on Pope Francis’ well-known devotion to this image. Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges: 
Caritas is assessing an emergency situation in northeastern Bangladesh which is affected by  a long period of heavy rain from 29 March to 07 April and has destroyed  crops and other means of livelihood.Speaking to ucanews, Daniel Dhritu Snal, project officer of disaster management at Caritas Sylhet said the agency is evaluating damage done by floods that have submerged vast areas in the haor wetland region which covers seven districts. Most of the evaluations are being done in Sunamganj district in Sylhet division, which has been the hardest hit area."We will offer people food items, which they need most, as well as money if they need it. Where necessary, we will give them medicine because various waterborne diseases hit affected communities after flooding," said Snal. "We will help people as much as we can but we have also designed a project to make communities able to fight disasters like flooding and drought effectively in the long run," he sa...
In a unique gesture, police in the Indian state of West Bengal are going beyond the call of duty by raising funds for the women they rescue from sex traffickers to help them get back on track.  "The girls are hardly literate, have no access to bank loans, and government schemes are not enough to sustain them in the long run," said police officer Chandra Sekhar Bardhan, who is spearheading the programme in eastern India.  "We had to do something, even though it did not fall in the realm of our duties,"  he told Thomson Reuters Foundation.The scheme - the first of its kind - began this month, with 22 rescued women singled out for rehabilitation.  Police then hope to reach out to 100 more women and create a model to replicate across the region.  Police tailor the aid to the individual women, asking firms to fund their needs as an act of corporate social responsibility.  One of the first group wants to set up a sewing business, another...
Sex workers in Mumbai's red light district are being lured and even forced to sell their babies, campaigners say, sparking fears that traffickers are looking for new ways to buy children in response to tighter adoption rules.  The anti-trafficking charity Prerana - which runs a night shelter for the children of sex workers - has recorded four baby sales in the last seven months and is documenting each incident to see if a pattern emerges.  "Such cases were rare earlier. Pregnancies were controlled by brothel keepers - the madams - who allowed sex workers to keep their pregnancies in most cases, hoping for a girl child," said Pravin Patkar, co-founder of Prerana.  Babies were kept away from the mother, though were not sold.  "But pimps have emerged as more powerful now and act as mediators for buyers. There is an underground network looking for areas where there are unprotected children."  Campaigners say the long waiting list for ad...
(Vatican Radio)  The Holy See has expressed deep concern over the current situation in the Middle East and reiterated its support for a two-state solution in Palestine.Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, made the comments in an address to the Security Council.Citing the “resent use of chemical agents in Syria” and the “Palm Sunday terrorist bombings in Egypt”, Archbishop Auza said, “The Holy See is deeply concerned with the current situation in the Middle East.”He lauded Lebanon for “heroically” hosting millions of refugees from neighboring countries and territories in conflict.In addition to this burden, he said Lebanon is also facing the threat of militias and armed groups operating within its territories.Turning to the situation in Palestine, Archbishop Auza said, “Since 1947, the Holy See has constantly supported the two-state solution for the State...
Cambodia launched a crackdown on bogus orphanages on Thursday, many of which are set up to attract donations from tourists, with the aim of returning about 3,500 children who were not orphans to their families, a government minister said.  About 17 percent of Cambodians live below a national poverty line and some families who are too poor to look after their children send them to orphanages in the hope they will be taken care of and given an education.  Many orphanages have opened over recent years, some unlicensed, unsafe and with few real orphans, raising concerns about neglect and abuse. The boom has matched a surge in foreign tourists to the Southeast Asian country, one of the world's poorest.  Some social workers have appealed to tourists to stay away from orphanages saying that so-called orphanage tourism enables child exploitation."There are many abuses inside orphanages," Minister of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation Vong Sauth ...
The High Court of central India’s Madhya Pradesh state has given clean chit to a Catholic bishop and five others in a nine-year-old religious conversion case.  There is “no sufficient evidence to frame the charges against the petitioners,” says the order by the principal bench headed by Justice S K Gangele.  The April 11 order was released to the media on April 20. The court based at Jabalpur acquitted Bishop Mathew Vaniakizhakkel of Satna, two priests, a nun and two others who work in the eastern rite Syro-Malabar Catholic diocese.  The six were accused of converting a Hindu woman to Christianity and then marrying her off to a Christian man in May 2009.The case was filed after a Catholic, Christopher Pavy, complained to the police and sought action against the Church people.  Madhya Pradesh is among the Indian states with stringent anti-conversion laws.  Such conversions, without proper approval of the government agency, are a punishable...
A Child Protection activist in Malawi, Sister Agnes Jonas of the Teresian Sisters, has challenged Children Animators in the Church to safeguard and protect children from all forms of abuses including physical and emotional ill-treatment; sexual abuse; neglect or negligent treatment of children. She said the Church could also advocate against commercial interests that harm children.Sr. Jonas spoke about the importance of protecting children during a presentation on Child Protection to 96 Animators under the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM).“This includes exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust and power,” said Sr. Jonas.According to Sr. Jonas, the Church is crucial in ensuring that it assists victims of abuse. This support to victims encompasses cooperating with civil authorities and offering Coun...
Jefferson City, Mo., Apr 21, 2017 / 08:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Stronger medical standards for abortion clinics were thrown out in Missouri by a federal judge who cited a Supreme Court decision on a similar law in Texas.The Missouri law required abortion clinics to have the same standards as similar outpatient surgical centers. The clinics’ doctors were also required to have hospital privileges.U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs of the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City said April 19 that “relief should be prompt, given the needs of women seeking abortions and the need for available clinics to serve their needs.” He cited the 5-3 ruling of the 2016 Supreme Court decision Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said he would appeal the decision, the St. Louis Dispatch reports.“Today a federal court struck down large portions of Missouri law that protect the health and safety of women who seek to obtain an abortion,...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON(CNS) -- American Catholics will have an opportunity to become modern-daymissionaries during the weekend of April 29-30 by simply dropping money in a collectionplate.Thatis the weekend the Catholic Home Missions Appeal is being conducted as a secondcollection in many parishes throughout the U.S. The money raised from it willhelp bring the religion to people throughout the country.Contributingto that collection really is a way for Catholics to do missionary work withoutever leaving their home or parish, saidRichard Coll, director of Catholic Home Missions in the U.S. bishops' Office ofNational Collections.Theannual Catholic Home Missions Appeal helps support more than 40 percent of thedioceses and eparchies in the United States and its territories in theCaribbean and Pacific.Thesedioceses tend to be rural with enormous territories within their borders.Withoutthe subsidies that come from the annual appeal established by the U.S.Catholic b...
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