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DELHI: Despite its bullish economic growth, India
has more malnourished and hungry children than
sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF said, and warned about
the slow progress nations make in caring for their
children. Some 57 million Indian children or 47
percent under age of 5 are underweight. That makes
India the house of highest number of malnourished
children in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa is better
off, where 33 percent of the children are malnourished.
In India Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Bihar
and Maharastra are the worst affected, with over
50 percent of children in some states malnourished.
- Indian Catholic (ICNS)
DID YOU KNOW?
- In India over 15 million
children live as bonded child laborers
- More than 18 million children
live on the streets, homeless and without hope
- Close to 2 million children
do not live to see their first birthday
- Over 500,000 are forced
into child prostitution
- Over 100 million children
in India between 6 and 14 years of age are outside
the school system and therefore highly likely
to be child laborers?
- Pray fervently for our
children.
INDIA HAS 2/3 OF ASIAN AIDS
CASES
India now has more people living
with HIV than any other country, a UN Aids report
has revealed. The report shows that India now
accounts for two-thirds of HIV cases in the whole
of Asia. An estimated 5.7 million Indians were
infected by the end of 2005, overtaking the 5.5
million cases estimated in South Africa. - BBC
RSS BACKS BAN ON DA VINCI
CODE
(Agencies) - The RSS mouthpiece
Organizer has supported the ban on the film Da
Vinci Code. Organizer stated in its editorial
that “The Da Vinci Code is blasphemous,
the Christians say. If they feel hurt, they have
a case to protest. Hurting religious sentiments
is not in our tradition. The demand for the ban
on the movie has again brought into focus the
smudgy dividing line between freedom of expression
and the responsibility to respect others’
feelings.”
NAGALAND ORDERS BAN OF DA
VINCI CODE
(Agencies) Though the Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC) cleared The
Da Vinci Code for adult viewing throughout India,
the Government of Nagaland has ordered an immediate
ban on both the film and the novel. The state
government has issued an order to all cinemas
not to show it. The state government has warned
owners of cinemas, theatres and video parlors
that under the terms of the Indian penal code,
they face fines or imprisonment if they show the
film. Cable operators have also been warned not
to receive, distribute or screen the film in any
form in Nagaland.
According to the government,
the film is “blasphemous and offensive”
while the novel is “an affront to the dignity
of Christians and a direct assault on the Christian
faith as a whole.”
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