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Leo Capobianco talks about the situation in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya after the kidnapping of the Spanish doctors from Doctors without Borders and what AVSI is working on.
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10/17/2011
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Israeli President Netanyahu makes a deal with Hamas: more than 1,000 prisoners will be freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was captured by Hamas five years ago.
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10/14/2011
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Paolo Tosoni, a criminal lawyer, comments on the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Italian Court of Appeals, in a complete reversal of the verdict of the lower court.
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10/4/2011
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Paolo Tosoni
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Christian pastor in Iran, Yousef Nadarkhani, was found guilty of apostasy, converting from Islam, and is to be executed this week unless he recants his Christian faith.
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9/29/2011
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Eighth grader and Christian Faryal Tauseef was expelled from school for blasphemy and her family was forced to flee their town in Pakistan this week after mass protests against Christians.
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9/28/2011
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Maria Li Gobbi describes her experience building schools in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, which are overflowing with children in need of a safe place to stay and grow up in.
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9/17/2011
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Lucia and Rebecca, the Siamese twins with only one heart and one liver between them, did not make it. Monica Mondo asks what sense there could be in being born only to die right away.
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9/10/2011
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Monica Mondo
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In a state of emergency as in Dadaab, education is not considered an immediate need, compared with food, water and health. But education remains fundamental for the future of the children
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9/6/2011
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Louis Giovino describes his experience of Hurricane Irene, which the media predicted would be devastating, and asks why there was so much alarmism about the natural disaster.
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8/29/2011
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A young worker in DC, Kristin Kennalley, describes her experience of yesterday’s earthquake, the evacuations, and the reactions of the DC population to the unexpected scare.
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8/25/2011
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Francesco Calcagno reports from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where the numbers of arrivals continues to grow and the camps are overcrowded with people searching for a better life.
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8/17/2011
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The diary from Fiammetta, an AVSI worker in Haiti continues with an update on the aftermath of the earthquake, cholera and political crises, and a look at the upcoming school and work year.
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8/15/2011
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Fiammetta Cappellini
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Maria Li Gobbi provides ilsussidiario.net with an update on the situation in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where thousands come every day fleeing the famine and the war in Somalia.
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8/5/2011
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Maria Li Gobbi, who works in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, provides an update on the situation in Eastern Africa and tells the stories of two refugees in the camp.
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7/29/2011
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Thousands of refugees, victims of wild animals and bandits, come to Dadaab every day in search of food and hope. The story of AVSI worker Maria Li Gobbi.
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7/22/2011
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Fr. Carron, the leader of the Catholic lay movement Communion & Liberation, stops by Minnesota on a U.S. tour to meet people and respond to their questions about life.
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7/19/2011
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Sharon Mollerus
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One of the worst famines in recent history is hitting the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of thousands flee to the refugee camp, Dadaab, in Kenya, where relief workers struggle to provide for all.
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7/19/2011
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Bill creating civil unions in Illinois does not exempt Catholic Charities from having to facilitate adoptions to those in civil unions. Jack Smith comments.
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7/15/2011
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Jack Smith
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On the occasion of the recognition on July 9, 2011, of South Sudan as independent from the former state Sudan, an inside perspective of the country from an AVSI staff member in the field.
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7/13/2011
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Last Monday, a statue was erected of Ronald Reagan in Grosvenor Square, London to celebrate the 100th year after his birth. The event was attended by both British and American dignitaries.
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7/7/2011
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