- Recently the Kony 2012 campaign spread around the virus, promoting the cause of fighting the recruitment of children as soldiers in Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony's army. The only problem, the information in the video that spread is horribly outdated. Among other actual facts, Kony has not been in Uganda for at least six years.
- Members of Campus Crusade in Japan are giving survivors of last year's earthquake and tsunami manga or comics with a story of hope to help curb a high suicide rate in that country.
- Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch Shenouda III, one of the world's most revered Christian leaders and an advocate for Christians in Muslim-dominated Egypt, has passed away at the age of 88.
- A riveting and sad story of a former slave in the African nation of Mauritania, where slavery continues despite its official abolishment in 1981.
Monday, March 19, 2012
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