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[1] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com Date: Tue Mar 4, 2008 6:46 am Subject: WCC "ABSOLUTELY CONDEMNS" ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS IN GAZA AND ISRAEL g World Council of Churches - News Release Contact: +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 03/03/2008 03:43:57 PM WCC "ABSOLUTELY CONDEMNS" ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS IN GAZA AND ISRAEL Absolute condemnation for the "deadly attacks on civilians by the Israeli military on Gaza and by militants firing rockets from Gaza" was expressed by the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia today. Claiming that "the path to peace stands open but empty," he called for an end of the "incessant violations of life and of human rights" and of the "blockade that has systematically deprived Gazans of almost all their rights." Attacks across the Gaza-Israeli border have killed more then 110 Palestinians and three Israelis since the middle of last week. One third of the mostly civilian dead are reportedly children. In his letter of 3 March, Kobia calls on the WCC member churches to join in education, advocacy and public witness activities during a week of International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel, 4-10 June 2008. A worldwide prayer for peace, with central events in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, is to be held on Sunday, 8 June 2008. Kobia reiterated the alarm over the situation in Gaza expressed recently by the central committee, governing body of the WCC. During its 13-20 February meeting, it had adopted a minute on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The minute reminds "all the authorities directly involved, the de facto Hamas authority and the Palestinian authority - to the extent that they exercise control - as well as the government of Israel," of their "primary obligations to protect the population of Gaza under international human rights and humanitarian law." It also points to the indirect involvement of governments "providing financial assistance to the occupying power for actions concerning Gaza that are wrongful and illegal under international law". ---------- [2] From: kashif-ul-huda <kaaashif@gmail.com Date: Wed Mar 5, 2008 10:14 pm Subject: Derasar and Dargah coexist in Gandhi's Gujarat Derasar and Dargah coexist in Gandhi's Gujarat<http://www.twocircles.net/2008mar05/derasar_and_dargah_coexist_gandhis_g\ ujarat. html <http://www.twocircles.net/2008mar05/derasar_and_dargah_coexist_gandhis_gujarat.\ html *By Rupa Abdi, TwoCircles. net* To the uninitiated, no two religions could be as far apart as Jainism and Islam. The former, carries the principals of non-violence to the extreme, wherein even the lowest life forms such as insects are not to be harmed; while in the latter consumption of certain birds and animals for food is a part of everyday life. But life style and diet do not make up a religion. Nor do rites and rituals. These are mere symbols to remind us of a higher Reality and tools to make us more receptive to this Reality. One has to rise above them in order to discern the common threads that run through all religions. Perhaps Akbar knew this when he granted the sacred Shetrunjaya Hill, in Palitana Gujarat, to the Jain muni Hiravijaya Suri to begin the construction of what was to become one of the largest complex of Jain temples (Derasar); and so did Angar Pir, a sufi saint who protected these Derasars from the attack of Allauddin Khilji. -------------- [3] Polluters Rewarded By Ramesh Agrawal http://www.countercurrents.org/agrawal040308.htm From the very day of its installation Monnet did not care to comply with even a single condition imposed by the CECB. As a result, pollution has been rampant, with the villages around the plant bearing the brunt. Just a few meters away is the ‘Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya’ a central government residential school with 600 students and teaching staff. The students here have been complaining of ailments like Asthma and other respiratory problems, headache, eye problems and skin infections Small Bandaids For Big Wounds By Viajayan MJ http://www.countercurrents.org/vijayan040308.htm The arbitrary takeover of land is one of the country's biggest faultlines today. New legislation proposed by the government does little to fix this ------------- [4] Waving Of Loans: Not In The Right Direction By K. Jayaram http://www.countercurrents.org/jayaram060308.htm There is no long term measures in the budget to make farmers debt free. No measures were proposed to eliminate the root cause for indebtedness. This can be better adressed by increasing public investments but there is no concrete measures to increase the public investments in agriculture |
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