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Roland Joffé Shows us Love, Hate, and Forgiveness in his New Movie

Joffé and this team have created a masterpiece that is moving and passionate.

(MADRID) - The director of “The Mission” returns with “There Be Dragons”, to be premiered this month.

Roland Joffé states: “Josemaria’s statement shocked me: one finds God in everyday life, and his everyday life is that of the Spanish Civil War”. Regardless of violent scenes, like all wars in fact, the final message of this upcoming movie is that of “forgiveness”: “it’s a message of forgiveness; forgiveness melts that which has been left frozen”.

10 Million Children Die Each Year

Most of these 10 million deaths have origin in roots that can be easily healed and prevented.

(MADRID) - This is how the infant mortality clock functions: 19 children of 5 years or less die each minute; 1,140 each hour; 27,360 each day; 10 million each year. It is estimated that 99 percent out these 10 million deaths take place in developing countries.

According to Save the Children Foundation, it is possible to reduce 60 percent of these deaths by carrying out simple and inexpensive measures. Such measures range from vaccines, oral rehydration, mosquito nets, to access to health care.

Save Sex

According to a study conducted by “Uganda’s Demografiphic and Health Survey”, 93 percent of Uganda’s population have changed their sexual practice in order to effectively fight the deadly virus.

(MADRID / CLEVELAND) - The deadly epidemic of AIDS is getting government concern. It is a plague that escapes from human control, since there is no cure for this threatening disease. This virus also spreads.

Each day more and more victims are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. It is therefore a challenge to humanity, which is very proud of its technological progress yet incapable of eradicating ill.

The Mystery and Love of Christ at a Convent in Spain

The mystery that fills the convent at Lerma is simply Christ himself.

(MADRID) - The day has long passed since Marijosé Berzosa entered the cloister without batting an eyelash. She was just 18 years old, and the town of Lerma was celebrating a feast day. Behind her, she abandoned the study of medicine and its possibilities so as to heed the call of Christ.

Her new home, a convent, housed some twenty nuns. The youngest of these was already 40 years old, and it had been more than 23 years since a postulant had crossed the threshold.

Deadly Pandemic

In 2007, more than 33 million victims lived with the disease.

(MADRID) - According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) there will be a $ 25 million increase to continue and strengthen the fight against AIDS for 2010.

A study carried out by UNAIDS explains that what countries need, along serious actions, are serious investments in order to reach the goals set for 2010.

An Insufferable Hell

The more the drug consumed, the more it is needed. It becomes an addiction.

(MADRID, Spain) - “I have seen my generation scouting among the black streets at dawn vitally searching for drugs”, asserts Allen Ginsberg.

Nowadays, drugs – taken along with alcohol – are turned to by more than 48,000 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 18. These tendencies can lead to the abuse of cocaine and cannabis.

Ska-P`s Intifada Jams to the Beat of Palestine`s Truth

They Can Leave or Die is Israel's Genocidal Message to Palestinians; more bands worldwide are speaking out.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I recently told you about the jumping hip hop music coming out of Palestine. In that report I talked about how rappers in this occupied nation have no time to sing about the things western rappers wrap their words around.

Spain Closes Mosque Amid Controversy

Mosque closure in Spain teaches Muslim immigrants the possibility of praying in one’s home.

(BARCELONA) - Earlier this week, the mosque on Nord Street in the Catalonian city of Lleida, an hour and a half from Barcelona, was closed by order of the city council, which cited a violation of the fire code due to the volume of prayer attendees.

According to an article in the July 23 edition of the Spanish daily El País, local imam Abdelwahab Houzi denounced the closure as political.

Who Is Simon Bolivar?

Only time will tell whether Chávez's "Bolivarian Revolution" will succeed.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Recently Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, the current president of Venezuela, opened the coffin of his idol Simón Bolivar so Venezuela can investigate the president's suspicions of foul play in Bolivar's death in 1830.

Hungry Children

One out of 7 children born in underdeveloped countries is sentenced to die before reaching the age of 5.

(MADRID) - Every 6 seconds a child of less than 5 years dies of hunger. Every 3 minutes 30 children die from pauperization.

According to a report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 6 million children of less than 5 years suffer from malnutrition every year. More than 180 million children of less than 10 years suffer from hunger, because they do not have anything to eat.