FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE

Empowering the Weakest

For this issue, World Mission chose two vivid examples of faith in action. One comes from far away Brazil, and tells us of a Church’s mental health project which intends to heal the psychological damages induced by extreme poverty. The other is in the Philippines itself, where a world’s renowned foundation, PREDA, has been working for decades to free endangered children and to empower the weakest wherever they may be. Its founder and president, Fr. Shay Cullen, explains: “Mission is spreading the good news that we have God-given rights, we are God’s family, and that everyone is precious, no matter how poor or needy.” An option that we all must adopt and share.

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DUBAI: TALLEST SKYSCRAPER IN THE WORLD

The world’s tallest building opened its doors in Dubai with a superb show of fireworks and colored lanterns. To the surprise of many, the skyscraper measuring 828 meters that was called "Burj Dubai" during the construction, has been called “Burj Khalifa,” after the head of the federation of the Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, Emir of Abu Dhabi.

 
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FEATURE OF THE MONTH

LAND GRAB FOR THE WORLD'S FARMS

To secure their food supplies and the production of biofuels, several countries are buying or leasing huge amounts of farmland in poor nations, in Asia, Latin America and mainly in Africa. Some say that the investment could aid to develop the local economies, but the phenomenon – that has already a name: the land grab – can be also a menace to small farmers and local communities. Some denounce it as just a form of new colonialism and say that will worsen poverty and malnutrition.
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GMOs ARE GOING TO CREATE FAMINE AND HUNGER

A well-known writer on environmental themes and a missionary who spent more than twenty years in the Philippines, Fr. Seán McDonagh is leading a campaign to denounce the negative impact of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Because he believes they are not at all the solution to feed the poor of the world but, on the contrary, they can only contribute to create more famine and hunger.

by JOHN L. ALLEN, JR.
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
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DELAYED PEACE

Murder, rape, torture, pillage and displacement of a large number of civilians in Darfur, have turned this Sudanese region into a hell. Portuguese Comboni Missionary, Father Feliz da Costa, who has been working in Sudan for 20 years – the last three in Nyala – is a privileged witness of the crimes committed in the territory and of the people’s longing for peace.

by FELIZ DA COSTA MARTINS
COMBONI MISSIONARY IN NYALA, DARFUR

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World Mission receives again a Catholic Mass Media trophy

World Mission (WM) was awarded another trophy by the prestigious Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) in its 31st edition. The magazine was distinguished as the Best Local Community/Parish Newspaper for the third consecutive year.

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QUOTES OF THE MONTH

“The Church is open to everyone because, in God, she lives for others!

  Pope Benedict XVI
in his traditional New Year address
to the diplomatic corps accredited
to the Holy See (January 11, 2010).

“The protection of Creation is not principally a response to an aesthetic need, but much more to a moral need, inasmuch as Nature expresses a plan of love and truth which is prior to us and which comes from God."

Idem, Ibidem

“We, the LAY FAITHFUL who compose 99.06% of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, look forward to new directions and a new pastoral approach within the Church that will bring real change in ourselves, our communities and our nation.”

Lay faithful’s letter
to bishops, priests and religious.

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