-NEW- Stress Importance of Education Toward Respect
VATICAN CITY, AUG. 27, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a message to Muslims, underlining...
College Launches Catholic Medieval Guilds
MERRIMACK, New Hampshire, JULY 27, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts is launching several...
UN prize honours six projects for promoting literacy and women's empowerment
28 July 2010 - An organization that works to enhance literacy among immigrant families in Germany and an innovative programme... UN agency launches initiative to ship donated books to Haitian children
26 July 2010 - The United Nations agency tasked with promoting education has launched an initiative to send donated books to...
Yerevan named World Book Capital 2012 by UN cultural agency 6 July 2010 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has chosen the Armenian city of Yerevan...
"A True Humanism ... Can and Should Allow the Presence of Foreign Students"
ROME, JULY 3, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Here is a greeting sent from the president and secretary of the Pontifical Concil for Migrants and...
Tony Blair welcomes the University of Western Australia to the Faith and Globalisation initiative
7 June - The University of Western Australia has become the first Australian University and the fifth in the world to partner with the Tony...
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS DIALOGUE ABOUT EDUCATION
VENICE, Italy, JUNE 2, 2010 (Zenit.org).- On June 21, some 50 people from 20 countries, Christian and Muslim, will gather for a...
Arts education the focus of UN-backed cultural conference opening today
25 May 2010 - The importance of arts education both in and out of school, with its potential to enhance the understanding of different... UNICEF chief calls for accelerated action on out-of-school children
18 May 2010 - The new head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for greater efforts to ease the plight... Today's young people can help create a better tomorrow, Ban tells UN student forum
13 May 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed to thousands of young people gathered at a student conference at... CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLERS MORE LIKELY TO GRADUATE
WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 29, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Students of Catholic high schools are more likely than their peers in other schools... CARDINAL: PRAYER ISN'T EXTRA IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
KILKENNY, Ireland, MAY 7, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Teaching prayer in Catholic schools is not an extra feature, but rather an essential part... Burkina Faso: UN-backed project boosts education, health care for women farmers
6 May 2010 - A United Nations-backed pilot programme that supplies electric generators to rural women farmers in Burkina Faso... Palestinian girls take science project from UN school to Silicon Valley
28 April 2010 - Three teenagers studying in a United Nations-funded school in a refugee camp in the West Bank have been chosen... Dreams 'can help with learning'
23 April 2010 - Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory - as long as you dream, scientists say. Ban lauds Jordan's Queen for children's book on cross-cultural understanding
27 April 2010 - A cultural food fight between “gooey” peanut butter and jelly and “icky” hummus sandwiches leads to global acceptance... Brain circuits for empathy, violence may overlap
April 18, 2010 Human brain circuits involved in empathy and in violence may overlap, scientists have found. They say the discovery... CHURCH IN US TO STUDY "MARRIAGE BUILDING"
WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 23, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic Church in the United States has defined "marriage building" as one... Two Billion Laptops? It May Not Be Enough
16 April 2010 - ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big. Since 2007, it has sold inexpensive but rugged laptop... Education key to fighting HIV pandemic, UNICEF chief stresses on visit to Lesotho
9 April 2010 - The outgoing head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has wrapped up a two-day visit to the African...
UN seeks to improve safety of schools and hospitals in natural disasters 9 April 2010 - The United Nations has launched a worldwide campaign to enhance the safety of 1 million schools and hospitals...
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