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More than two dozen people, 15 of them children, were killed in ritual murders last year in Uganda where the use of drugs made from their body parts is thought to attract wealth.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist More than two dozen people, 15 of them children, were killed in ritual murders last year in Uganda where the use of drugs made from their body parts is thought to attract wealth.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A recent study has found that the lives of nearly 1,000 babies a year could be saved if 90 percent of U.S. women breast fed their babies for the first six months of life.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The 97 year-old husband of St. Gianna Molla, Pietro Molla, died on Holy Saturday in his family home near Milan Italy.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Reflecting on the theme of the Israelite’s exodus from slavery to the Egyptians, Pope Benedict XVI’s Urbi et Orbi message delivered yesterday in St. Peter’s Square calls for each of us to experience our own “exodus” from slavery to sin into the promised land of faith in Jesus Christ. He also prayed for peace in the world and a “resurrection” from the despair and mourning in earthquake ravaged Haiti and Chile, the conflicts in Africa and the violent drug wars afflicting so many in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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