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BEIJING, MAR. 2, 2001 (Zenit.org).- China has “a very significant way to go” in meeting tradition standards of freedom of expression, association and religious belief, says U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Robinson visited Beijing from Feb. 24-26 to participate in a seminar on crime. Her visit was an opportunity to call for [...]

LONDON, Mar. 2, 01 (CWNews.com) – Members of Parliament last night voted in favor of a bill which will allow Catholic priests to sit in the House of Commons. The Removal of Clergy Disqualification Bill aims to reverse a 200-year-old law that prevents some serving and former ministers of religion from becoming MPs. Although Catholic [...]

MANAGUA, Mar. 2, 01 (CWNews.com) – The Nicaraguan Catholic relief organization Caritas has warned authorities that the loss of crops in the mostly rural region of Esteli could turn into a massive famine in the region, and said that preventive steps are not being taken. Deacon Rolando Meneses, president of Caritas in the northern Nicaraguan [...]

VATICAN, Mar. 2, 01 (CWNews.com) — A newly edited version of the 1968 film, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” was shown at the Vatican on Thursday evening, March 1. The remastered version of the acclaimed film by the late Stanley Kubrick was shown under the aegis of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. In 1996, that [...]

TURKMENISTAN: AUTHORITIES STRIP CLOSED BAPTIST CHURCH BARE. The authorities of the Niyazov district of the Turkmen capital Ashgabad have today (2 March) broken their own seals on the doors of the city’s Baptist church and confiscated everything inside. Keston News Service has been able to find no official prepared to discuss the confiscation, despite repeated [...]

SUVA: 3rd March — A major project to provide a database of all Religious in the CEPAC region is almost complete – the term ‘Religious’ for the purposes of the database, includes members of institutes of consecrated life, of societies of apostolic life, as well as consecrated virgins. CEPAC is the Episcopal Conference of the [...]

WINNING GRANT PROPOSALS ONLINE – New from The Grantsmanship Center: a FREE, searchable database of proposals selected by major government funders from among their highest-rated grant applications. http://www.TGCIgrantproposals.com Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Millions of American families that have left welfare are worse off economically today because many state governments are not spending the federal funds intended to help them transition into work or take care of their children, according to a new report by National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support. The states have failed to use [...]

SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN RESTRICTIONS ON LAWYERS REPRESENTING THE POOR IN WELFARE CASES – In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court this week found unconstitutional a federal law enacted in 1996 that bars lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corporation from making any “effort to amend or otherwise challenge [...]

GREAT POTATO HARVEST – America’s Second Harvest continues to seek the necessary funding to ship and deliver its biggest single food donation ever — 20 million pounds of surplus potatoes for this year’s record harvest. America’s Second Harvest partner HP ResourceLink (www.resourcelink.org) reports C.H. Robinson (one of the world’s largest logistics companies) is coordinating dozens [...]