From: Ouko joachim omolo
From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste in images
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012
Pope Benedict’s general intention for this month of December is that migrants throughout the world may be welcomed with generosity and authentic love, especially by Christian communities.
His missionary intention is that Christ, light for all humanity. That Christ may reveal himself to all humanity with the light that shines forth from Bethlehem and is reflected in the face of his Church.
The prayer has been offered at the time half the British population thinks immigration ‘is bad for the economy’. In 2002 only 43 per cent of the population thought migrants harmed the economy.
Now the figure is above half, at 52 per cent, with nearly two thirds of lower paid and lesser skilled people deploring the economic impact of migration. More than half, 51 per cent, want immigration reduced by a lot, and, in total, three quarters want to see immigration cuts.
Just few months ago a female Haitian migrant drowned during an illegal landing attempt. Three men were also taken to hospital for excessive dehydration, according to officials. According to reports, 50 migrants were apprehended on the shore, 15 in the South Beach Pool area, and another 10 on land. There were 50 men, 18 women, three boys, and four girls.
As IRIN reports (20 September 2012) several hundred thousand Burmese migrant workers in Thailand could face deportation if they fail to register under the government’s National Verification Programme (NVP) before a 14 December deadline. NVP – conceived in 2008 – was intended to give registered and verified migrant workers protection under Thai labour laws.
According to the Labour Ministry, there are over 1.3 million legal workers from neighbouring countries currently working in Thailand – 82 percent from Myanmar, 9.5 percent from Cambodia and 8.4 percent from Laos.
The latest registration deadline, extended from June this year, comes as Myanmar is proposing to offer ID cards to unregistered and undocumented workers who wish to return home.
The prayer has also been offered when we commemorate the day a Maryknoll sister, Sr Maura Clarke, M.M. together with other three missionaries were killed on December 2, 1980 in El Salvador on line of duty.
She worked with the poor and refuges in Central America from 1959 until her death in 1980. She was beaten, raped, and murdered, along with fellow missionaries, Ita Ford, M.M, Jean Donovan and Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U, in El Salvador, by members of a military death squad. In their deaths, Sister Maura Clarke and the three other Catholic missionaries joined the more-than 75,000 people who were killed in that nation’s civil war.
Today is also World Aids Day. In a special appeal against HIV and Aids, Pope Benedict XVI has called for special attention to those unable to afford life-saving drugs, especially pregnant and nursing women affected by the disease.
The pope, speaking before World Aids Day Dec. 1, said his thoughts and prayers were with “the great number of children who contract the virus every year from their own mothers, despite the fact there are therapies for preventing it.”
Aids he says has caused “millions of deaths and tragic human suffering, most markedly in poorer regions of the world, which have great difficulty in getting access to effective drugs. The pope encouraged the many initiatives the church supports aimed at “eradicating this scourge.”
The Vatican has estimated Catholic agencies provide about 25 percent of all HIV treatment and care throughout the world. The World Health Organization has estimated that perhaps as much as 70 percent of all health care in Africa is provided by faith-based organizations.
Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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Real change must come from ordinary people who refuse to be taken hostage by the weapons of politicians in the face of inequality, racism and oppression, but march together towards a clear and unambiguous goal.
-Anne Montgomery, RSCJ UN Disarmament Conference, 2002
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