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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and an enduring icon of the struggle against racial oppression, died on Thursday, the government announced, leaving the nation without its moral center at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the country’s leaders....

  Rabbi Sid Schwarz, director of Faith and the Common Good at Auburn Theological Seminary, tells about his Hanukkah on the huffingtonpost.com  blog. As with Christmas and Kwanza, Hanukkah falls during the winter solstice, in the darkest time of the...

    Task force proposals ready, 14 mln needed for Frontex operation Brussels has allocated 30 million euros in funds for Italy's immigration emergency, EU commissioner for home affairs Cecilia Malmstrom said on Wednesday. The funds are aimed at programmes...

Responding to a plea for help can sometimes have unforeseen consequences. This adventure of a community caring for the blind, gives rise to an original pilot experiment. Oran, Algeria’s second city, overlooks the Mediterranean. It is also one of the...

Approvede by assembly. The biggest challenge is yet to come when it is presented to the Egyptian people in the form of a referendum. Egypt’s constituent assembly has completed its work on a draft Costitution. It reflects how far the...

  Air lift leaves from Brindisi A humanitarian aid flight for victims of this month's devastating Typhoon Haiyan left for the central Philippines from Brindisi in southern Italy, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. Aboard the plane were 42.5 tonnes...

  Not just meals, but concrete and personal service in the canteen of Dominga in Valencia, that was born in a difficult social context, to serve the elderly in need. For several years now Dominga of Valencia (Venezuela), has been managing...

First among states which aren't members of the Council of Europe. Belarus subscribes to the Convention on the fight against human trafficking and thus becomes the first country, among those which are not members of the Council of Europe, that...

The problem of overcrowded prisons is at the heart of a workshop for prison workers. Efforts in response to a critical situation “I would share one particular incident. The guys were walking around the corridors. One of us noticed a...

Cuiaba celebrated 12th edition from 13 to 16 November. 48 ethnic groups, as well as from more than a dozen other nations under the same language of sport. "Despite that fact that our languages are different, that our skin varies,...

 Ioane Teitiota loses case to stay in New Zealand, after arguing that homeland of Kiribati was being destroyed by climate change A man from Kiribati, a Pacific island threatened by rising sea levels, has failed in an attempt to become...

  Russian President stops at Vatican ahead of Italy-Russia summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Pope Francis at the Vatican Monday after arriving in Rome the day before a government summit between Russian and Italian ministers. At the center...

Solar power and internet to provide health and education Poor rural communities in South Africa are benefiting from a new initiative using solar power and internet to provide health and education.  The so-called “smart villages” are made up of shipping...

Youth for a United World of the Philippines and other parts of the world are mobilizing after Haidyn. A message to tell us how from Eleanor and Anton Villegas, from Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental Island. “Thank you for all...

  Francis blesses, 'hugs' Italian boy from afar   Foggia, November 21 - Pope Francis has answered a letter sent to him by an eight-year-old Italian boy from the southern Italian city of Foggia, blessing him and telling him he...

Actions of fraternity after the typhoon Haydn. The suggestion of the Youth for a United World: to do and to repeat.How? All the explanetions in a viral video.   When give up it's give back to someone? Can we do...

  The two Presidents, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, will meet on November 19 in Vienna. The U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick wrote this on his official page Twitter.   The presidents of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, and...

For "Protagonists of Fraternity" Mother Teresa: founder of the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic order of nuns dedicated to helping the poor. She is still considered today one of the greatest personalities in the dissemination of a culture of peace...