Two significant events recently took place in the Republic of Georgia (an ex-member of the Soviet Union): the consecration of the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, set on a hilltop outside the town of Akhaltsikhe, and the inauguration of a nearby Benedictine monastery. The latter, the country’s first Catholic monastery, was founded… Read more »
UNICEF is one of the 5 humanitarian organizations that receive financial support from the UE for various programs. This year, the European Union is adding to its annual donation of €930,000, 2 million euros deriving from its 2012 Nobel Peace Prize money to fund 4 projects under its Children of Peace Initiative. The program will… Read more »
Half of the food produced in the world (about 2 billion tons) winds up in the trash, even though a large part of it is still edible. This troubling information emerged in a report by Great Britain’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers. According to the report, one of the causes of this waste is the failure… Read more »
According to the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), the World Giving Index–the largest study of charitable behavior across the globe–registered a 2% drop in financial donations to charity in 2007-2012, a fact in part influenced by the current world economic crisis. The Index is based on an average of three measures of giving behavior: the percentage… Read more »
