by Beth | Feb 3, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Stats and Stones: Vinnies’ report from the trenches on the poverty wars in Australia.On 30 May, Vinnies released an Issues Paper entitled The Reality of Income Inequality. It received fairly wide publicity in both the print and electronic media. The Australian...
by Beth | Feb 3, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (Reuters) – An early warning system based on climate models, average rainfall and data on seasonal malaria can predict the risk of an epidemic of the killer disease five months in advance, scientists said on Wednesday. The system has been devised by...
by Beth | Feb 2, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Indian government has launched one of the country’s most ambitious efforts to tackle rural poverty. Under the National Rural Guarantee Scheme one member from each of India’s 60 million rural households is guaranteed 100 days of work each year. They...
by Beth | Feb 2, 2006 | Church
Pope Signs First EncyclicalWIKIPEDIA already has an article on Benedict the XVI’s first encyclical. For those not familiar with WIKIPEDIA it is a user created encyclopedia available in just over 200 languages. Not all the lanugages are active and the English...
by Beth | Feb 1, 2006 | Church
Bishop Manguiran of the Philippines has his own blog “The Meaning – Life is meaningful only when it begins and ends with Christ”.He has been blogging for a full year. His most recent posting of January 7 is entitled “Thank You Lord” and...
