CATRINAS... El Dia de los Muertos celebration at Old Town San Diego

THE WORLD NEEDS A RECESS... A TRUCE... RELIEF

Is it possible that ethnic/religious conflict is at the heart of the World’s Problems?  Is it possible that economic problems would be more easily solved if relationships were not complicated by ethnic/religious issues?  What would it take for the people of the world to just get along together... to help each other?

FROM The Washington Post:

“A Nation’s Young Minds Under Attack”

In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taliban, determined to keep young people...especially young girls...from becoming educated, are destroying school buildings and killing and wounding children who dare who determination to become educated.

“Dozens are killed as Syrian truce ends within hours”

The first day of a cease-fire in the Syrian conflict in observance of the religious holiday Eid al-Adha went as many observers had expected: It was violated within hours and both sides blamed each other...”

“Dozens in Myanmar Killed in Ethnic Violence”

“More than 60 people have been killed and thousands of houses burned as ethnic and religious violence in western Myanmar intensifies, according to news reports and community activists.  Violence between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and ethnic Rohingya Muslims reportedly has spread to at least four townships over recent days...”

 FROM Newsweek:  The ... faith problem has nothing to do with organized religion in general’ it has to do with organized religion’s interference in American politics led by a group of extremist evangelicals and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.