Pope Francis celebrates Mass for Burmese Catholics in St. Peter’s Basilica, May 16, 2021. / Vatican Media.
CNA Staff, May 16, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday for Burmese Catholics, urging them not to lose hope as th.
South Korea, WFP discuss ongoing projects in Sri Lanka Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
South Korean Ambassador to Sri Lanka Santhush Woonjin JEONG said that he is very pleased about the recent project initiated in March 2021 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support the Government of Sri Lanka with funding worth USD 600,000 (LKR 117 million) to procure maize for the production of Thriposha amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ambassador Santhush Woonjin JEONG was speaking after his meeting with the newly-appointed United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Sri Lanka Country Director Abdur Rahim Siddiqui and Korean Embassy representatives.
New contribution from Japan helps WFP fight hunger in Myanmar’s impoverished urban townships [EN/MY]
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YANGON, MYANMAR – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$4 million contribution from the Government of Japan to support families struggling to meet their basic food needs.
The contribution will help WFP provide assistance to some 600,000 people in Yangon Region. Food rations will be delivered directly into the hands of vulnerable families as part of WFP’s new operation for 2 million people in the poorest townships of Myanmar’s urban areas. The distribution started on 13 May in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township.
Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing
underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice,
they prioritize militarized responses that are not only
abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive.
African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic
narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country
is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords,
but by the less visible kinds of violence that prevail around the
world: violence against women or the everyday violence of crime and
discrimination against immigrants.