Pope leads Holy Thursday mass will be in prison for children

Pope Francis I attended mass in his swearing in St. Peter's square, Vatican City, Tuesday (7/3). (REUTERS/Paul Hanna)

Vatican City (Reuters)-the Pope will hold masses, major Francis of Holy week on next week in the prison Chapel, children, rather than in the Basilica, for the usual place of the mass, the Vatican said on Thursday.

Pope Francis will lead mass of Maundy Thursday at noon in jail kids Casal del Marmo in the outskirts of Rome.

On the Holy Father's mass will be washed and kissed the feet of 12 men faithful to the memory of Jesus's humble attitude of the Apostles on the evening before the death of Jesus.

All the memories, all the Pope held a mass Thursday at St. Peter's in the Vatican or in the Basilica of St. John in Lateran, the Cathedral Church of the Pope as Bishop of Rome.

The Vatican spokesman says can't remember whether the mass of Maundy Thursday ever held anywhere else.

While serving as a Bishop in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio former Cardinal was often held a mass Thursday at prisons, hospitals, nursing homes or with the poor.

The Holy Father also once was the Bishop of Rome and his decision to lead the mass in prison shows that the Pope intends to keep his post with Francis wholeheartedly.

Maundy Thursday mass is one of a series of worship during the Holy week before Easter that Catholics lived, this year lasts from 24 March to 31 March, according to Reuters.

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One of the 50 school-aged children in the US suffer from autism

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Boys are four times more affected by autistic spectrum disorders than girls

Jakarta (Reuters)-at least one of the 50 school-aged children in the United States diagnosed with autism, that number is up 72 percent since 2007.

However, an increasing number of such cases happen to mild autism, according to the study, as reported in Reuters.

In General, based on a survey conducted by phone to more than 100 thousand old people, found that as many as two per cent of children aged between 6 and 17 years old have autism.

That number increased from 1.16 percent in 2007, when the last study was conducted.

"This could translate into a million school age children 6-17 years old, were reported by their parents suffer from autism," said Stephen Blumberg, senior researcher of the center of the U.s. National Health Statistics as part of Disease Prevention and Countermeasures Center, leader of the research.

As previously thought, a tad more who suffer from autism than girls, that is one of the 37 boys than among 143 girls.

In General, people with autism experiencing difficult disorders communicate and conduct social interaction.

It also occurs as a result of increased understanding of older people are increasing about autism symptoms are attacking their son.

Scientists believe genetic factors constitute the largest percentage of the risk of developing the disorder.

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UNICEF: Israel persecuted Palestinian children

Jerusalem (Reuters)-Palestinian children, who were arrested, Israel's army was subjected to persecution and widespread organized, that is unlawful, says UNICEF report of national on Wednesday.

Children's Fund, the United Nations (UNICEF) estimated 700 Palestinian children aged 12-17, most of the men, captured, examined and detained soldiers, police and the Israel Security Agency each year in the West Bank seat.

UNICEF stated knowing some examples of abuse, no human or degrading or penalties in accordance with the Convention on the rights of children and of the Convention Against Torture.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel Army refused to directly respond to the findings.

According to the report, the mistreatment of children under ordinary Palestinians began with arrests, often done at midnight by heavily armed troops, and continues to the prosecution and punishment.

"A pattern of mistreatment that included closing the eyes of kids and tying their hands with plastic, punch and rebuke during a trip to the place of examination, including the use of painful restraint," the report said.

He says, the children, most of them were arrested for throwing stones, experience of violence and threats during the review, was forced to confess and have no way of directly to lawyers or families during the inspection.

"The treatment is incompatible with the rights of children continued for the Court, including chaining children, refused bail and wearing a jail sentence and send the kids outside the Palestinian territories to undergo the punishment stand in the region of Israel," the report said.

That attitude seemed prevalent, arranged and terlembaga, he added.

UNICEF is basing his findings on more than 400 cases recorded since 2009 and legal texts, reports of Government and non governmental groups and interviews with the children of Palestine and Israel and Palestinian officials as well as a lawyer.

The report said Israel made some "good changes" in recent years in treating Palestinian children, including new rules binding the hands to prevent pain and injury.

He also noted an improvement in army order 2010, which oblige Israel police tell parents about their children's arrest and told the children that they have the right berembuk with lawyers, so Reuters.
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Syria crisis make hundreds of thousands of children missing education

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United Nations, New York (AFP)-riots in Syria continue to rage without control, threatening hundreds of thousands of children's education, said the UNITED NATIONS children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday (5/3).

The world body add a recent assessment found that one-fifth of the school in the Middle East has suffered physical damage directly or used as a shelter for people left homeless.

UNICEF assessment shows very many schools have been destroyed, the teachers had found the presence of death, and the number has been freefall.

The political crisis erupted in March 2011 and later turned into riots and armed clashes, thus creating humanitarian crisis in parts of the Middle East.

"The educational system in Syria is the impact of the unrest," said Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, as quoted by Xinhua--which monitored Between Jakarta, Wednesday night. "Syria never proud with the quality of the school. Now the country is witnessing the achievements reached during the years of rapidly spinning 180 degrees. "

According to that assessment, one-fifth of the country's schools have suffered physical damage directly or used to accommodate persons who became refugees in their country (IDP).

In various cities of the most fierce conflict, such as in Idlib, Aleppo and Deraa, the children often can't attend school, sometimes just being present twice in a week. But in an area with a lot of IDP, crowded classes, sometimes up to 100 pupils.

The assessment, conducted in December, also found more than 110 teachers and many other teachers will no longer report to teach. In Idlib, teacher presence is nothing more than 55 percent.

Some schools have also been used by armed forces and armed groups involved in the conflict, so that parents are reluctant to send their children to school.
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Children of gay families more likely to be poor: study

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BOSTON | Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:32pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Children growing up in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families are more likely to live in poverty and may be denied legal ties to one of their parents, a report released on Tuesday showed.

A lack of federal recognition of same-sex marriages means such families face higher tax burdens and unequal access to health insurance and government safety net programs, said the report entitled "All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families."

The report was released online and authored by groups advocating for gay rights including Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council and Center for American Progress.

"The reality is if you look at today's modern families, they come in all shapes and sizes," said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Equality Council.

"The laws and policies we have in place haven't kept pace with that changing reality," she said.

An estimated two million children are being raised in such households, the report said. They live in 96 percent of U.S. counties in racially and ethnically diverse families, it said.

Their children are as happy, healthy and well-adjusted as their peers raised by heterosexual parents, it said.

But such families are more likely to live in poverty than married heterosexual households, the report said.

In 31 states, it is very challenging for same-sex parents to establish legal ties for their children to both parents, Chrisler said. Thus a child could be left vulnerable if a parent dies or the relationship dissolves.

For example, Naz Meftah and Lydia Banuelos were legally married in California and are parents to three young children.

Banuelos is not recognized legally as their parent, cannot sign medical releases for them at the doctor and is not listed on their birth certificates.

The couple participated in the release of the report.

"It's not just sentimental and heart breaking. It has a real impact," Meftah told Reuters. "We are legally married and Lydia is a stranger to her own kids by law."

Tax implications and medical expenses are just a few of the problems Meftah and Banuelos have dealt with in Arizona, where the children were born, and in California.

The couple is now working through the court system in an effort for Banuelos to adopt the children.

The report detailed more than 100 state and federal policy recommendations, including ensuring access to health insurance and care, educating doctors and schools about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender families and revising medical decision-making laws.

It also highlighted legalization and federal recognition of same-sex marriage as an important step to protecting children raised in those homes.

Maggie Gallagher, a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes legalization of same-sex marriage, said a change in the federal marriage law would not better protect children.

Marriage between a man and woman best protects children by having a mother and father in the same family, she said.

(Reporting by Lauren Keiper; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Greg McCune)

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French Schools Are Rationing Ketchup To Keep Their Children French

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French officials are implementing a saucy new restriction on school cafeterias.

In an effort to combat obesity and promote healthy and culturally French eating, The Times reports that ketchup "is to be rationed in primary and secondary school canteens to ensure that French children remain French." Apparently, officials are concerned that children are starting to neglect French foods in favor of "US-style snacks."

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The new rules state that cafeterias must offer four to five dishes every day, including a main course, a starter or dessert and a dairy product such as cheese or yogurt. Baguettes and bread should be available for every meal, but ketchup and its gloppy condiment cousin, mayonnaise, will only be allowed with certain foods. Ketchup will provided with fries; however, they'll only be served once a week.

"We have to ensure that children become familiar with French recipes so that they can hand them down to the following generation," Christophe Hebert, chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants told The Times. "We absolutely have to stop children from being able to serve those sorts of sauces to themselves with every meal. Children have a tendency to use them to mask the taste of whatever they are eating."

NewsFeed admits that Hebert has a point: kids do tend to smother their food in ketchup to mask the taste when they're in the school cafeteria. Perhaps Hebert has forgotten what canteen food tastes like, but NewsFeed pities the children who're forced to go whole meals without a little ketchup to negate the taste of cardboard.

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Adoptions of children fall by 5%

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 09:48 GMT Last year the average length of time children waited to be adopted was two years and seven months The number of children in care adopted in England has fallen, according to Department for Education figures.

Only 60 children had adoptions completed by their first birthday, compared with 70 last year and 150 in 2007. Overall adoption numbers fell 5%.

Anne Marie Carrie, of the Barnardo's charity, said it was a "tragedy" that bureaucracy stops some people adopting and "treats them with suspicion".

Children's Minister Tim Loughton said bureaucracy had to be reduced.

His comments come after the statistics revealed that, in the year ending 31 March 2011, there had been a 5% decrease in the number of children in care placed for adoption.

There were 3,050 looked-after children adopted, down from the previous year's figure of 3,200. This was an 8% decline since 2007.

According to the figures, the average length of time children waited to be adopted was two years and seven months, and the average age at the time of adoption was three years and 10 months.

Mrs Carrie said the adoption system was partly responsible.

She said: "This is a tragedy, it's a tragedy for the children who are languishing in the care system and frankly it's a tragedy for those people who have come forward who want to be parents and adopt a child.

"One of the factors is the fact that we do not cherish people when they come forward to say they want to be a parent.

"We treat them with enormous suspicion and we set thresholds for people to be adoptive parents that, frankly, we wouldn't be able to adopt our own children.

"So there is something about the thresholds and the bureaucracy that stops parents and treats them with suspicion."

It also emerged that children who are eventually adopted are spending longer in care while they wait.

Some 27,310 children were taken into care last year, down from 28,090 the previous year.

The children's minister said steps had to be taken to encourage the adoption of children in care.

"We need to welcome more people who want to be adoptive parents. It's a big ask and for those people brave enough to come forward and say they're interested in adoption. There's too much of 'don't call us we'll call you' at town hall doors. That's got to change, it will change," said Mr Loughton.

He went on: "There are too many children in the care system there for many years, or their entire childhood, for whom adoption would be a suitable permanent replacement. They've got to be identified earlier and we've got to be more active in encouraging an adoption. That's got to happen. It will happen.

"And the whole process takes far too long - the bouncing back between adoption panels and the courts, the bureaucratic assessments."

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Children in Afghanistan bus explosion

27 September 2011 14: 58 GMT state the bomb in Helmand extensive damage in the area around the police station was to have at least 16 people, including 11 children, killed as a bus a bomb on the roadside in Western Afghanistan taken, local officials say.

They say that the bomb was, as the bus was a group of an engagement party in Herat province.

Four women and the driver also were killed, a spokesman said the Governor of told of Reuters.

A separate development handle a suicide bomber car a bakery, which is popular with police in southern of Afghanistan.

At least five people were killed and injured 22 officials say.

The attack took the main city in addition to the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, volatile Helmand province.

According to witnesses were police to buy bread when the attack took place. Two civilians were among the dead.

Residents and shop owners in Lashkar Gah, said after the explosion of the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul, the chaos and panic ausgebrochen.

Correspondents say that victims among the civilian population at record levels in the Afghan war, which started in 2001 with the US-led invasion of the country.

The UN has in the past month that 1,462 civilians were killed in the first half of this year, 15% over the same period of last year.

Insurgents were responsible for about 80% of the murders, the UN said.

Figures show that while foreign troops are deaths down, compared to this time last year, the rising power in the once relatively quiet North and West.

Lashkar Gah is one of the seven initial areas that was passed to NATO for security to Afghan forces.

Foreign combat troops are to withdraw from Afghanistan until 2014.

Our correspondent says that rebels trying to undermine the authority and to reduce the morale of the Afghan security forces, how is the transition going.

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Pakistan bus crash kills children

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27 September 2011 Last updated at 11:49 GMT The wreckage of the bus crash

At least 26 people, mostly children, have been killed after a bus went off the road and plunged into a ravine in Pakistan, police say.

The bus was carrying students returning from an excursion when the incident happened on a motorway south-east of the capital Islamabad late on Monday.

The police said mechanical failure caused the crash.

Pakistan has one of the world's worst records for traffic accidents, blamed on poor roads and faulty vehicles.

The police said that the bus fell into the ravine after its brakes failed.

The accident happened in Kalar Kahar, Punjab province, about 160km (100 miles) south-east of Islamabad.

Correspondents say that it is one of the steepest parts of Pakistan's only motorway.

Twenty-two of the 26 people killed where students from a private school.

The driver, his assistant and the deputy-headteacher from the school were among the dead, police officer Chaudhry Salim told the AFP news agency.

In June, at least 12 children died after their school bus plunged into a canal in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

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Weapons prize for Somali children

  An al-Shabab official urged the children to use their guns to defend Islam A radio station run by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group has awarded weapons to children who won a Koran-reciting and general knowledge contest.
Andulus radio, based near Mogadishu, gave the group which won first prize in the Ramadan competition an AK-47 rifle and the equivalent of $700 (£450).
The second prize-winners received an AK-47 and $500, while the third prize was two hand grenades and $400.
Al-Shabab, linked to al-Qaeda, controls much of southern and central Somalia.
It recently withdrew from the capital, Mogadishu, where the UN-backed government is in charge.
Four children, aged 10-17, were chosen to represent each district in the competition held during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended in August.
"Youths should use one hand for education and the other for a gun to defend Islam," senior al-Shabab official Mukhtar Robow told the prize-giving ceremony in Elasha, 20km (12 miles) from Mogadishu.
The winners were also given religious books.
The BBC's Mohamed Moalimu in Mogadishu says this is the third year the contest has been held.
In previous years, when the competition was organised in the southern port of Kismayo, the first prize included an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade launcher).
Somalia is currently suffering from a severe drought, which has been declared a famine in some areas run by al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab is restricting access to many international aid groups, saying they have a political agenda and are exaggerating the scale of the drought.

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