On the 11-th of February, the planet citizens celebrate World Day of the Sick. This day is dedicated to the support of people suffering from various illnesses. Besides that, the purpose of World Day of the Sick is to increase attention of society towards the problems of the sick.
The first time World Day of the Sick was celebrated occurred in 1993. The special day establishment initiative belonged to the Pope John Paul II who in his Epistle to the Catholic Christians I 1992 claimed that it was compulsive to give everybody feeling of the necessity to relieve suffering and improve patient care.
Date of World Day of the Sick arrangement was chosen in honor of epiphany Lourdes Holy Mother who became the patroness of all sick people because she was considered to cure many sick humans of Lourdes during her appearance.
Tradition World Day of the Sick is celebrated with divine service, as well as different social events on the topics of illnesses, for example, shows of thematic films, leading educational conversations.
The private British schools are going to make contributions up to ten thousand of free-of-charge places for education of children from the families with the low level of income.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
Classic works created by the famous British artist and children writer Quentin Blake as well as pictures painted by English rock-musician Erik Clapton, the composer of electronic music Brian Eno, and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are put for the sales on the 7-th of December. The organizers of the stated event are planning to collect money for the further functioning of London gallery.
Netherlandish authority will prepare a legislative act implying the legalization of assistance in voluntary leaving of this life for those who consider that ‘their lives have run their courses’, however, not compulsory is death sick.
The experts of World Economic forum (WEF) defined the safest countries in the world. The leader of the tanking where 141 states were included became Finland, as it is stated in the report of World Economic forum.
In the world every seven second the girl aged younger than fifteen years gets married, as it is stated in the report of charitable organization Save The Children.
The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan entered into a bond to contribute 3 billion dollars from personal finances in funding medical investigations during the next decade. The couple expects that it could help to fight off all the famous illnesses by the end of century.
Iranian men started publishing in social media their photos in hijabs as the sign of solidarity with the female citizens of the country for whom wearing scarf is compulsory. Yahoo News writes about that.
National commission on the development and reforms of the People’s Republic of China released to public a plan of accommodation building in small and middle-sized towns of the country which is enough for location of 3.4 billion humans what is almost a half of current population of this globe.
French application for dating Happn acclaimed ten most romantic airports in the world. The ranking included air harbors where people who use the application are mostly meeting.
American man Robert Kugler arrived in the trip throughout the country with his dying from cancer dog called Bella. The story of a man who decided to arrange the last travel for death-sick dog interested foreign mass media, particularly, TV-channels WOWT 6 News and CNN.