{"id":6485,"date":"2005-01-22T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T21:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/01\/22\/good-news-3\/"},"modified":"2005-01-22T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T21:27:51","slug":"good-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/01\/good-news-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Finally some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesite.net\/ldn\/2005\/jan\/05012009.html\">good<br \/>\nnews on the UN<\/a> front for UNESCO with a new appointment to replace<br \/>\nAbortion zealot Bellamy <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Veneman, at least from her comments at the press conference<br \/>\nintroducing her in her new capacity, seems a breath of fresh air. Her comments<br \/>\nindicate a back<br \/>\nto<br \/>\nbasics approach of concentrating on &#8220;issues that no child &#8212; no human<br \/>\nbeing &#8212; should have to confront: malnutrition and hunger, illiteracy and disease,<br \/>\nespecially the scourge of HIV\/AIDS, exploitation and suffering, wars and natural<br \/>\ndisasters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">When asked specifically about the<br \/>\nreproductive health (read abortion) agenda which has become a hallmark of<br \/>\nUNICEF under Bellamy, Veneman responded, &#8220;I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t come with any agenda with regard to those or any other social issues.<br \/>\nI come with an agenda of helping children, particularly in the areas of education<br \/>\nand health and to address the issues of hunger and malnutrition. I don&#8217;t believe<br \/>\nthat these issues are relevant to the missions of UNICEF.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Another sign of hope to pro-life leaders, the incoming<br \/>\nUNICEF chief quoted Mother Teresa in her remarks. &quot;The humanitarian, Mother Teresa, once said,<br \/>\n&#8216;If you can&#8217;t feed 100 people, then feed just one. Never worry about numbers.<br \/>\nHelp one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you,&#8217;&quot; she<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">We will just have to wait and see if UNICEF can return to its<br \/>\noriginal mission without the taint of support for abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally some good news on the UN front for UNESCO with a new appointment to replace Abortion zealot Bellamy Veneman, at least from her comments at the press conference introducing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}