Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion. (MercatorNet)
“Pornography Harms ” is a newly launched website aiming at providing credible, peer-reviewed research documenting the effects of pornography.
The present adoption law in Bangladesh does little to help couples who want to adopt orphans and hence needs revision, says a nun who works for abandoned children. (UCA News)
Little Maria Ho Thi Thien An, now four, was saved by her father from being buried alive with her dead mother when she was just seven days old. (UCA News)
This is the story of a Filipino child, Angel-grace, one of many, representative of millions around the world. I will be frank in telling her story. (Father Shay Cullen, Preda Foundation)
Sarnelli House is an orphanage for children who have HIV/AIDS. It is an initiative of the Redemptorists in Thailand and was opened in October 2000.
It all starts with a piece of bread, but the donations are not your usual dole-outs. They are given only after the recipient, who is usually a small child or an out-of-school teenager, has accepted another invitation: this time, to attend a 15-minute class on reading, writing, and basic values formation.
It may take the young [...]
The Father Ray Foundation was founded in 2003 by Father Raymond Allen Brennan, C.Ss.R., a Redemptorist priest in Thailand.
It is a charitable organization set up to make a positive difference in the lives of underpriviledged children, young people with disabilities and the poor of Thailand. The Foundation currently has several on going projects that include [...]
The yellowed photo in Sr. Crocetta Thomas’ battered folder shows a tiny girl in a filthy dress, her matted hair a swirl of knots, flecked with what appears to be an errant thread or two. Swathi, then 5 years old, stares at the camera with a combination of hostility and confusion, her hands limp at [...]
Although Yakkum is a faith-based organization (the name is an acronym for a Christian foundation) it doesn’t proselytize; the overall impression is that it’s a secular show. Most clients are Muslim and Maria (a Catholic) brushes aside suggestions of any discrimination in the provision of services. (Duncan Graham, The Jakarta Post)
“We care for people in [...]
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