Voters in Peru are set to cast their ballots on Sunday in a closely fought presidential second-round run-off. They face a choice of Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori, and Ollanta Humala, one-time ally of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. The two candidates are at opposite ends of the political spectrum – a fact that has worried some Peruvians who say they will not vote for either of them. Continue reading Peru: Fujimori and Humala face off in presidential vote
Daily Archives: June 5, 2011
Nigeria: Alarm over Child trafficking
Police accuse the doctor of buying the babies from the girls and reselling them for several thousand dollars in profit to childless couples.
By Eunice Kilonzo
ABUJA—Nigerian police say 32 pregnant teens could face charges after being accused of plotting to sell their babies in a child trafficking ring. Police arrested the girls and a doctor in charge of a clinic in southeast Abia state. Police commissioner Bala Hassan says the pregnant women were housed at the clinic until their babies were born. Police accuse the doctor of buying the babies from the girls and reselling them for several thousand dollars in profit to childless couples. Authorities also suspect that some of the babies were being bought so their body parts could be used in rituals. Continue reading Nigeria: Alarm over Child trafficking
Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth
Waangari Maathai: What role does spirituality play in our work to heal the earth?
The environment becomes sacred, because to destroy what is essential to life is to destroy life itself.
by Wangari Maathai
During my more than three decades as an environmentalist and campaigner for democratic rights, people have often asked me whether spirituality, different religious traditions, and the Bible in particular had inspired me, and influenced my activism and the work of the Green Belt Movement (GBM). Did I conceive conservation of the environment and empowerment of ordinary people as a kind of religious vocation? Were there spiritual lessons to be learned and applied to their own environmental efforts, or in their lives as a whole? Continue reading Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth
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