For many years the Anglican Church’s Tumelong Mission has served people in and around Tshwane, but now shortage of funds has forced it to retrench severely.
clipped from www.iol.co.za
‘I give the assurance before God that the (Tumelong) Mission is not closing, that no one has been dismissed and that there is no threat to any of [...]
In a comment on an earlier post of mine, on Religion, spirituality and politics, Nic Paton said “Thats an interesting distinction between the post/modern “neopagan” and the premodern “paleopagan”… Do you see a role for the paleopagan in contemporary culture / spirituality?”
I referred to the recent comments of the Minister of Health on the possibility [...]
A new breakthrough in creating stem cells from human skin could solve bioethical problems in stem cell research
clipped from www.washingtonpost.com
Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women’s eggs — the previously essential ingredients that have [...]
Here’s a spin-off from the Church and money Synchroblog: Monte Asbury writes in What everyone knows about health care: “the health care giants in the USA spend $300 billion on promotion. You’ll see their ads on TV tonight, won’t you? Enjoy them, ’cause they’re part of your health care bill.”
Even if that billion [...]
There has been a great deal of publicity about the ABCs of avoiding sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), like HIV/Aids.
Abstain
Be faithful
Condomise
Some of those who advocated C accused those who advocated the other two of genocide and worse. But now it seems that some are acknowledging that those who advocated the first two were right all along.
With all [...]
Judging from the amount of money and publicity devoted to it, one would think that HIV/Aids was by far the most serious health problem in South Africa, but at a seminar on Organ and Tissue Transplants held at Unisa this week, it seems that other widespread problems are getting far too little attention, such as [...]
A political row has broken out over the sacking of Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge on the eve of Women’s Day.
Last night when it was announced on the radio it was said that it had to do with an unauthorised trip to Spain. My thougth was that at last the president was beginning to [...]
David Holford reports that a group of Bulgarian nurses who had been sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV have been freed and returned to Bulgaria.
That is certainly good news, but one can’t help feeling that there is more to this story than meets the eye.
According to some reports, they had [...]
A couple of months ago batches of pet food were withdr from sale in various countries, including South Africa, because one of the ingredients, imported from China, was found to be contaminated with poisonous substances. that caused kidney failure.
Now, it seems, other products made from ingredients manufactured in China have been found to be [...]
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