Nigeria: Giving Hope To Children
Zannah Mustapha, a champion for the rights of displaced children growing up amid violence in north-eastern Nigeria to get a quality education, has been named the 2017 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award. A former barrister turned property developer, Mustapha set up the school for orphans and vulnerable children in 2007. He was concerned by […]
Myanmar: Cruel Atrocities Against Rohingya
The hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing the attacks and burning of their villages in Myanmar are walking hundreds of miles across mountains, through jungles and in pouring rain, to escape the slaughter by the Myanmar armed forces. As many as 3,000 Rohingya have been killed according to some reports. The survivors, now numbering […]
The UN List of Child Killing Nations
Ali is a seven-year old boy. He lies with his head bandaged, a needle stuck in his arm and he is breathing with great difficulty. He is close to death, lying in a makeshift shelter that is an emergency field clinic in Yemen, where the last of the dextrose is running out. Flies buzz around […]
The Voiceless Woman Of Congo Has Gone Online
According to the United Nation, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is “the worst place to be a woman”. But, Neema Namadamu never questioned her faith, and became a source of inspiration. She tells us her story.. I was born in a very remote mountainous area of eastern Congo, in the village of Marunde, in […]
South Sudan: The President Of The Catholic Bishops’ Conference – “The Situation Is Tragic”
“We must summon all the parties involved in this war, the various ethnic groups and tribes, and gather around a table to talk about peace. The war that continues since 2013 shows no sign of ending. Nobody respects the outcomes of the peace talks, neither the government and nor the rebels. There is fighting in […]
The Art of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
The origins of Chinese pottery and porcelain go back to distant antiquity. Four objective factors influenced the beginnings and development of Chinese pottery and porcelain: clay, fuel, river systems, and markets. Heavy clay and large quantities of fuel are required for pottery and porcelain making. Prohibitively high shipping costs made pottery production economically impractical in […]
Boko Haram: Nigerian Child Bombings Quadruple This Year
According to the latest UNICEF report, Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria have sent out four times as many child suicide bombers so far this year, as they used the whole of 2016. Eighty-three children have been used as bombers since the 1st of January 2017, UNICEF has reported. Of those, 55 were girls, mostly […]
Africa: No Class To Attend
While students around the world go back to school, millions of children that fled conflict and drought in East Africa have no classes to attend. “We decided to flee Burundi because there was war. I miss the school where I was studying in Burundi. I had enough materials, shoes and clothes, pens, eraser and a […]
The Art of Traditional Chinese Painting
The origins of traditional Chinese painting reach far back into China’s distant history. Generally speaking, works dating from before the T’ang dynasty, (618-907 A.D.), are mainly line drawings of people engaged in various activities. This was the “golden age” of human figure drawing. By the mid-T’ang dynasty, landscape and flower-and-bird paintings began their rise to […]
Philippines: Making The Word Of God Viral
An Argentine priest promotes the Gospel through Facebook, early in the morning, as a spiritual food for the day. The missionary runs a community-based rehabilitation programme for drug addicts in an urban parish in Manila. Every morning, Fr. Luciano Felloni sits in front of a camera and records for less than three minutes about what […]