A Threat Bigger Than Terrorism

L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, carried an editorial which asserted that ecological crises pose “a bigger global threat than terrorism.”Just this week, the Vatican released Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of...

On Giving to the Poor

NEW YORK, December 13, 2006 (commonwealmagazine.org): Naomi Kritzer writes for Commonweal Magazine on the Jewish and Christian traditions of giving to the needy – The Jewish tradition acknowledges the issue of the person who asks for help deceptively, and the...

Malaria: The Disease That Fought Back

Experts believe that more people are now dying of malaria that did so three decades ago, and warn that it is spreading to new countries. The disease is now present in non-tropical countries such as Turkey and Russia. In addition, a handful of people die of malaria...
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