World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
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Nigeria is rich with oil, but its people are mired in poverty. Much of the country’s wealth has been lost to corruption. But the government is no...
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Pretend for a moment you’re five years old and your pastor has just accused you of being a witch. That leads to torture. Then you’re thrown out o...
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In just the first two months of this year, a thousand people have been killed in drug-related violence along the US-Mexico border.
This week, the ...
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If you can't read and there's no radio or television, how do you get your news? In the capitol of Liberia, it's the Daily Talk. A young journalist ...
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During the reign of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, 17-thousand people entered the infamous S-21 prison there and never came out.
They were to...
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Modern day piracy is costing companies millions of dollars while thousands of people on shore face starvation because their food shipments are bei...
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President Obama has been in office now for a hundred days. That’s not much time to get major legislation through Congress, but this week the World...
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A half-million people are expected to flee the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan as a peace agreement between the government and the Taliban contin...
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It’s all about animals this week on the World Vision Report.
In Ethiopia, donkeys are a vital part of daily living. They carry produce, people, a...
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As President Obama pushes for health care reform in this country, it’s an even stiffer challenge in South Africa. Private health care is too expen...
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The re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran has sparked protests amid claims the election was a fraud. This week, the World Vision...
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Many families in Africa go without medical care or prescriptions because they don’t have the money. Now residents of Senegal can purchase micro-in...
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This week on the World Vision Report, an award-winning story on a man in Liberia who posts the daily news on a chalkboard with headlines and symbol...
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As President Obama visits Ghana, the World Vision Report this week focuses on the age-old question of whether foreign aid really helps the poor in ...
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In the capital of Liberia there’s a building everyone calls “the Titanic.” It’s the local hangout for former fighters in the country’s civil war t...
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Nigeria is rich with oil, but its people are mired in poverty. Much of the country’s wealth has been lost to corruption. But the government is no...
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Around the world, polio is on the verge of being eradicated. But recently there have been outbreaks in countries that were previously polio-free. ...
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More money is spent every year on baldness than on fighting malaria.
Baldness can be ugly, but malaria kills more than a million people a year.
It...
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The economy in Japan has improved slightly in recent months, but the country is still reeling from the global economic crisis. Many Japanese don’t...
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Hip-Hop music has hopped all the way to Myanmar, or Burma. Musicians there use hip-hop as a means of protest against one of the most repressive go...
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