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Gunmen Kill 2 Journalists in the
THE SCOTSMAN, June 20 — Husband-and-wife radio
commentators who contributed reports to the Union of Catholic Asian News were
shot and killed by two gunmen in the
George Vigo and his wife, Mazel, were on their way home late on June 19 when two
gunmen on a motorcycle shot them, said Danny Reyes, police chief in
“They died on the way to the hospital from several bullet wounds in the head and body,” Reyes told reporters, adding the local police were trying to determine if the murders were related to their work at a local radio station. “It’s too difficult to speculate on who was behind the attack and the motive for the murder.”
Nuns Serve Children in
ASIANEWS, June 16 — Three nuns have responded to Pope John Paul II’s plea to save Afghan children by setting up the Association for Kabul Children, AsiaNews reported.
For the last 1½ years, the three
sisters, from
“We are like a school. Parents bring their children around 7 a.m. and we start our therapy,” Sister Ela said. “Each one suffers from a different problem. After some playing we start the actual treatment. The more advanced learn to write — not so much phrases, but a few letters. We teach the others how to go to the bathroom or how to eat on their own. Some instead need physiotherapy to learn basic movements.
“Our neighbors know about our
religion and they respect and help us,” Sister Ela
said. “More importantly, many people have expressed their gratitude for our
work. Our center is the only one in the city that works with mentally-disabled
children.”
REUTERS, June 15 —Eleven
government doctors in
The move comes after an undercover
television report into abortions of unborn girls, which exposed doctors
carrying out sex determination tests and convincing mothers to abort their
children if it was female. A joint study carried out by researchers in
Officials say states like
Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujurat,
and Himachal Pradesh, and cities like
In Rajasthan, there are 922
females to every 1,000 males, but officials say in states like
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