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Video Gamers Help Choose a Charity for Quarter Million Dollar Grant
With the release of a new computer game, video gamers can build their own civilizations. They can wage wars, conduct diplomacy and even discover...
Tennis Stars Rally For Peace at US Open
Sporting events can always be counted on to bring feuding nations together - think, US ping pong players visiting in China in the 1970's.
In...
Terrorist Attacks, Fatalities from Attacks Declined in 2009
The number of terrorist attacks worldwide in 2009 fell by about 6 percent from the previous year, and the number of deaths from these...
Seeds of Peace Camp: Sowing Tolerance Among Former Foes
While governments can do important work to promote it, peace, tolerance and understanding come mostly from people. That's why the South Asian Seeds of...
Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign at Victorious End
Rotary International made a promise to help kick polio out of Africa, and this month, with a football signed by Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond...
Doctors Provide Free Health Care Nationwide This Saturday
A group of physicians have organized free health care clinics across 26 states tomorrow that will treat, screen and counsel patients who need care....
New Pledges From Nations to Secure Nuclear Material: List
The largest gathering of world leaders in more than a half century gathered April 12 at the 47-nation in Washington. Nations offered various promises...
China Rescues 115 Miners Trapped for 8 Days
More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine, where...
Angelina Jolie Continues to Do That Hero Thing
With her many good deeds, Angelina Jolie is quietly becoming a modern-day Mother Teresa, particularly in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN...
Obama Names Charities to Share His $1.4 Million Nobel Award
President Obama named ten charities this week that will share the $1.4 million award that comes with his 2009 Nobel peace prize.
“These organizations do...
Taliban’s Top Military Commander Captured
The Taliban's top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, two Pakistani intelligence...
U.S. Unveils Plan to Help Afghan Women Build Better Lives
Empowering women is critical to improving life in Afghanistan and key to a brighter future there. Last week the Obama administration unveiled a plan...
American Muslims Work With Mormans to Help Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti
As churches worldwide mobilize in Haiti’s greatest time of need, a spirit of cooperation is highlighted by Muslims in the US and their ongoing...
Japan Pledges $5 Billion to Rebuild Afghanistan
Japan pledged this week to provide $5 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the next five years to and to speed the delivery of...
Canadian Soldiers Adopt Lone Monkey in Kanduhar
A little monkey named Lucy has become the apple of the eye of a group of Canadian soldiers working out of Kandahar Airfield....
Al-Qaida Faces Recruitment Crisis, Anti-terrorism Experts Say
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida is under heavy pressure in its strongholds in Pakistan's remote tribal areas and is finding it difficult to attract...
Heartland States Send National Guard to Aid Afghan Farmers
National Guard troops from a half-dozen heartland states are taking their civilian farming know-how to Afghanistan in a little-noticed aspect of the Obama administration’s...
Jolie-Pitt Mark Refugee Day with $1M Donation and Emotional Speech
Actress Angelina Jolie commemorated World Refugee Day in Washington last week. She is the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for refugees and has...
The World’s Most Peaceful Nation Named
The South Pacific nation of New Zealand, already renowned for it's scenic beauty, has strengthened its idyllic image by being named the Most Peacful Nation...
Buy One Ikea Solar Lamp, One Free to a Child Refugee
Starting this month, every sale of a solar powered bedside lamp at IKEA will generate an additional lamp as a donation to a child...