Francis used a speech at a state event also attended by abuse survivors to acknowledge the Church’s failure in not addressing such “repugnant crimes.”
Pope Francis publicly acknowledged the Catholic church’s failure in not addressing such “repugnant crimes.” | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
25 August 2018 (teleSUR)* – Pope Francis vowed on Saturday [25 August 2018] to end the sexual exploitation of children by clergy during a highly-charged visit to once deeply Catholic Ireland, telling victims the corruption and cover-up of abuse amounted to human excrement.
24 August 2018 (Wall Street International)* – Freud, Nietzsche, Barthes, and so many others regarded language as dangerous. The Freudian slip, the transvaluation of values, the semiotics, in short, the meanings that follow, leap and sneeze from the spoken make clear the danger that exists in language as an expression of what one wishes to communicate.
To communicate is to express. Communication can have two aspects: expressive configuration of what is lived, or artifact created to convey what cannot be expressed, either by physical distance or by the parameters established for communication.
By Natalia Micevic in Beni, the Democratic Republic of Congo*
Attacks by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Beni region is forcing families from their lands in the so-called “triangle of death.”
24 August 2018 (UNHCR)* – When gun and machete-toting assailants swept into her village and started hacking at her neighbours, Priscilla ran for her life.
“They cut my parents’ throats and killed them because they were too old to run,” says the 48-year-old. “We hid in the bush for three days, almost naked, with barely anything on our backs.”
25 August 2018 (UN Environment)* – An analysis of a new draft rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. power generation sector clearly demonstrates the dangers of air pollution, with up to 1,400 extra deaths per year expected from proposed changes to how coal-fired power plants can operate.
The analysis, released this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), looks at the impacts of replacing the Clean Power Plan – a 2015 rule to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 32 per cent by 2030 – with the Affordable Clean Energy Rule.
Under the Clean Power Plan, the federal government handed states targets on reducing emissions and encouraged the closure of coal-fired power plants. The new rule allows states themselves to set targets and encourages existing coal-fired power plants to increase their efficiency as the “best system of emission reduction”.
The mass human exodus that began last autumn from Myanmar to Bangladesh has turned Cox’s Bazar into the world’s largest refugee settlement.
Refugee Nurul Amin, 35, watches families arrive in the mega refugee camp of Kutupalong, Cox’s Bazar. They are on their way from the UN transit centre to their new homes inside the camp. Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC
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24 August, 2018 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* – “When the Myanmar military attacked my home, I lost four of my closest family members; my father, my brother, my sister and one of my nephews.
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Everything I owned was burned down – I’ve lost everything,” says Nurul Amin, 35, a refugee in Cox’s Bazar. He arrived with his family a year ago.
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