September 22, 2010

PAPAL REFLECTIONS: Pope Benedict reflects on his 4-day visit to Britain last week and reiterates his admiration for the life and writings of the new blessed, Cardinal John Henry Newman.....
LAGGING MILLENNIUM GOALS: With this week’s focus on how to give fresh momentum to the drive to achieve these U.N. goals we hear some shocking statistics from Caritas Internationalis that illustrate how far we are off track....
NIGER’S NEED: Almost half of Niger’s population desperately needs food and up to one in six children suffers from acute malnutrition and one aid worker who recently returned from there talks of how people are reduced to eating millet husks to survive...