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Fr. Carl Kabat Protests Nuclear Weapons Once Again August 15th, 2009
Father Carl Kabat, OMI was whose work has been marked by anti-nuclear activism has been arrested for entering a missile silo facility in Colorado.
Priest arrested for breaching missile silo (Greeley Tribune)
Anti-nukes priest here readies for next arrest (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Pictures of Fr. Carl Kabat at Plowshares Witness at N-8, August 6, 2009
Statement to the Press from Fr Carl:
“The Roman Catholic Church, of which I am a priest, at the close of its Vatican Council II in 1965 condemned nuclear bombs as a crime against humanity and are to be condemned unreservedly.
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Oblate JPIC Urges IMF Loan to Sri Lanka be Conditioned on Tangible Human Rights Progress July 24th, 2009
In a letter to the US Executive Director to the International Monetary Fund, Meg Lundsager, the US Oblate JPIC office today urged that the US$2.5 billion stand-by loan be conditioned on tangible human rights progress by the Sri Lankan government. The loan was opposed by the UK government.
Some 280,000 Tamils are still being held involuntarily in over-crowded and severely under-serviced military-controlled camps in the north. In addition, the government has made no attempts to address the serious and legitimate underlying grievances of the Tamil population that led to the insurgency in the first place.
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Conditions in Sri Lanka Refugee Camps Worsening July 20th, 2009
Waiting for Water at Manik Camp
According to a report by the associated Press in Colombo, conditions in the refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka are seriously worsening. In a report dated Sunday July 19th, AP said “in June, chicken pox was rampant and cases of typhoid, tuberculosis, skin and respiratory infections, hepatitis A, scabies and diarrhea have begun cropping up, according to U.N. reports. More than 35 percent of children under 5 are suffering from wasting, or acute malnutrition, according to a July 3 government presentation.”
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President Obama’s Trip to Ghana: Opportunity for New U.S. Approach to Africa July 9th, 2009
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, makes his first presidential visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he travels to Ghana, West Africa on July 10 and 11. President Obama will hold bilateral talks with host President John Atta Mills and will address Ghana’s parliament where he will deliver a major speech on Democracy and Food Security.
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VIVAT to Promote Regional Networking in Latin America July 7th, 2009
VIVAT International will be holding a Workshop in Cochabamba, Bolivia from July 19th to the 24th for some of the eight Congregational members who work in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The workshop will inform participants about VIVAT: what VIVAT is, its purpose and goals, and its achievements at the United Nations.
The main aim of the workshop, however, will be to allow members of the different Congregations to get to know each other and to share information about their work. The hope is that participants will form networks for greater effectiveness and better results in their ministries locally, nationally, regionally and with the UN.
