News
UNODC helps Iraqi victims of terrorism regain hope and their lives
Amman (Jordan), 21 December 2021 - “As a result of the support I received, I enrolled in university to learn English and made new friends. After two years of introversion,…
Charities
Christmas Concert Kindles Community Spirit Raising Funds for People in Need
The “Artists United Against Homelessness” concert brought together talent from across Ireland in aid of Tallaght community group Sharing is Caring, Dublin 24. Artists from across Ireland came together on…
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Europe
Christmas message to the farmers of Europe
Christmas message to the farmers of Europe from Mr Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development This Christmas, families across Europe will be sitting down to enjoy the…
Space
$11.65 trillion in precious metals may be contain Near-Earth asteroids
Scientists recently estimated that one of two metallic asteroids flying around Earth could contain precious metals (gold, platinum, iridium, osmium, ruthenium, rhodium and palladium) worth about $ 11.65 trillion. This…
Christianity
Does the holiday decoration touch our hearts, enlighten our minds?
The decoration is just a form, a game, an attempt to get back the lost… Otherwise it is placed with hope; the hope is that it, the external festivity, will…
America
Synthetic drugs: Valuable Tools to tackle the threats, now also In French
UNODC Launches French Version of the UN Toolkit on Synthetic Drugs: a framework for action to address this global problem. Vienna (Austria), 20 December 2021 — The manufacture of synthetic…
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America
Religious News From Around the Web December 20, 2021
Pope Reemphasizes Opposition to Latin Mass; Ninth Circuit Clears Expulsions of Seminarians in Same-Sex Marriages; Gorsuch Cites Religious Liberty As Supreme Court Allows New York Vaccine Mandate; Survey: 30 Percent…
International
Turkey has an algorithm for tracking friends and neighbors of gulenists
A report released by the UK-based international human rights organization StateWatch, quoted by online media Balkan Insight, said Turkey was using an algorithm to identify government opponents in the Turkish…
Christianity
Metropolitan Hilarion on Unification of the Orthodox and the Catholics
In the beginning of December, Pope Francis of Rome, during his meeting with Archbishop Jeronymos II of Athens and All Greece, uttered the words, which many perceived as apologies to…
Human Rights
For years data on Roma DNA have been manipulated
Deutsche Welle information portal: "Bulgaria, mid-1990s. Scientists set out to collect as much genetic data as possible from the Roma population. At that time, many Roma in Bulgaria lived in…