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Greetings to each and everyone of you.


This section for English-speaking viewers –
and all those enjoying the culture –

has developed over the months and is now offering materials of all kinds:

texts, images, poems, videos, etc.

It will continue to provide you with rich contents week after week.

 

World Stroke Day – 29 October

29 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: awareness, cholesterol, diabetes, encourage, high blood pressure, illnesses, preventing, risk, signs, survivors, treating, warning

World Stroke Day raises people’s awareness on stroke and what can be done to combat it. It is observed on October 29 each year.

What Do People Do?
Many organizations across the world honor stroke survivors, their families, and caregivers on World Stroke Day. The day also honors people who have made scientific advances in treating stroke related illnesses. Activities include fun runs, awareness workshops, and free stroke screening tests. Awards are presented to recognize people who work towards treating and preventing stroke.

Background
Stroke is a non-communicable disease that attacks millions of people worldwide every year. The World Stroke campaign aims to encourage people to understand stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high blood cholesterol. The campaign also promotes healthy living and ways to recognize the warning signs of stroke and how to take action.

Source: Text: timeanddate.com Image: longevitylive.com

Stroke affects
Stroke affects everyone – we all have reason to prevent it.  (World Stroke Organization)

International Day of Creole Languages ​​and Culture – October 28

28 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: culture, Haïti, language, poems

Among the countries using the Creole language, of course, is the Haitian republic and we do not resist the pleasure of making you discover the Haitian portal Tanbou (see below) and its poems in Creole.

There are even countries for which the Creole language, like the French or the English, is recognized as an official language.

Poetry in Creole

Powem pa Edner Holy Love

Pwezi an Kreyòl

Powèm pa Edner Saint-Amour

Deus ex machina
Pawòl monte fè pil sou pil
Aksyon menm zerobare nil.
Yo chita tann avèk espwa
Yo kwè nan: Deus ex machina.

Pawòl monte ap fè bann
Aksyon pran rout desann.
Yo chita tann avèk espwa
Yo kwè nan: Deus ex machina.

Pawòl monte bit sou bit
Aksyon pran rout chire pit.
Yo chita ap tann avèk espwa
Yo kwè nan: Deus ex machina.

Pou viv moun dwe aji
Nan dlo moun naje pou soti.
Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera
Lavi chita nan men debouya.

Aksyon se motè yon peyi
Lalwa se volan yon peyi
Pou viv moun dwe aji
Nan dlo moun naje pou soti.

(20 fevriye 2004)

Source: Text & Image: NationalPedia

 

World Occupational Therapy Day – 27 October

27 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: awareness, goals, impact, influence, inform, inspire, mission, profession

What is World Occupational Therapy Day?
The World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) is the international voice of the occupational therapy profession which globally comprises of 92 national occupational therapy professional organisations. World Occupational Therapy Day is the opportunity to heighten the visibility of the profession’s development work and to promote the activities of WFOT locally, nationally, and internationally.

When is it? Annually on October 27th
The aim is that the WFOT World Occupational Therapy Day will be integrated with other national celebrations and promotions of the mission and goals of occupational therapy. Many countries hold occupational therapy week or month in October. If this does not fit with your country or time frame then individual events can be scheduled to suit any local time frames. This will help to increase the awareness of occupational therapists and society of the truly global impact of occupational therapy.

Source: Text & Image: WFOT

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage – 27 October

27 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: awareness, discover, documents, importance, préservation, Remember, share, UNESCO

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is a commemoration of the adoption, in 1980 by the 21st General Conference, of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images.

The World Day provides an occasion to raise general awareness of the need to take urgent measures and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents.  » Discover, remember and share  » is the theme of this year’s celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (27 October).

Source: Text: UNESCO   Image: www.datadiary.com

30th Sunday of Year A

26 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: compassion, cry, downcast, Ex.22:20-26, favourites, justice, needy, orphans, Psalm 82:2-4, rejection, Rom.2:11, stranger, widows

 

 

 

 

 

If I were to say : ”Here are the people God prefers”, some may be quick to reply :
“God has no favourites”, saint Paul says it clearly when writing to the Romans (Rom.2:11).

And yet… I believe that God is… partial to some people among all his children.
They are mentioned many times throughout the Bible:
the widows, the orphans, the strangers, the weak, the needy, the downcast, those whose rights are ignored.
Amazingly, God affirms that he, himself, will defend them.

It is the message of this Sunday’s 1st reading: (30th Sunday Year A – Ex.22:20-26).
The text is forceful and the words challenging, to say the least:

“You must not molest the stranger or oppress him…
You must not be harsh with the widow, or with the orphan;
if you are harsh with them, they will surely cry out to me,
and be sure I shall hear their cry.”
 
Many texts of Scripture repeat this message clearly given also in Psalm 82:2-4:
“Let the weak and the orphan have justice,
be fair to the wretched and destitute;
rescue the weak and needy.”

The lowly and the needy, those despised and rejected, the victims of exploitation and repression, the ones who experience dejection and rejection – all of them have a special… power, it seems – the power to touch God’s heart and be favoured with his compassion.

If God hears their cry, we, who should reflect God’s image, should we not do as much?…

Source: Images: blogs.tribune.com.pk        Youtube    Soul Sheperding

 

 

World Polio Day – 24 October

24 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: Centres for Disease Control, development, Dr. Jonas Salk, efforts, eradication, generations, healath, promise, vaccine

 World Polio Day is an opportunity for the global polio eradication community to renew its promise of a polio-free world to future generations.

In honor of World Polio Day, CDC will celebrate and highlight polio eradication work around the globe using Twitter and Facebook. Tweets will feature the efforts and photos of CDC staff deployed in the field who are working to end polio. CDC will also create a photo gallery on the Center for Global Health Facebook page to feature images of polio eradication work done by CDC and partners worldwide.

World Polio Day, established by Rotary International over a decade ago, is held on October 24th in celebration of the birth of Dr. Jonas Salk, the man who led the first team to develop a vaccine against polio. The development of the polio vaccine reduced polio worldwide by 99% with only Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan as the remaining polio endemic countries in 2012.

Source: Text: CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   Image: Journée Mondiale

World Osteoporosis Day – 20 October

20 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: awareness, bones, diagnosis, disease, fracture, precention, proteins, risk, treatment

World Osteoporosis Day is celebrated on October 20, 2017. World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually, and launches a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease.

Organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, World Osteoporosis Day involves campaigns by national osteoporosis patient societies from around the world with activities in over 90 countries. World Osteoporosis Day was launched on 20 October 1996 by the United Kingdom’s National Osteoporosis Society and supported by the European Commission.

Osteoporosis is a progressive bone disease that is characterised by a decrease in bone mass and density and that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis, the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture deteriorates, and the amount and variety of proteins in bone are altered.

Source: Text: With material from: Wikipedia, www.cute-calendar.com   Image: Logo World Osteoporosis Day

World Day for Conflict Resolution – 19 October

19 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: arbitration, awareness, mediators, non-violence, peace, schools, workplaces

Conflict Resolution Day is a global event, intended to promote the concept of peaceful conflict resolution. Created in 2005 by the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), it is now an annual celebration.

Primarily an educational event, the main purpose of Conflict Resolution Day is to increase awareness of the various peaceful, non-violent methods of conflict resolution available, such as mediation and arbitration. In addition, the ACR hopes to promote their use in various different avenues of life, including in schools, workplaces, within the legal system and even amongst families.

The Association for Conflict Resolution, alongside various independent organisations, host informative events all over the world, so check the event listings in your local area and see if you can attend one.

If not, why not spend the day learning about the contributions of some of history’s great peaceful conflict mediators?

Source: Text: DAYSoftheYEAR  Image: Journée Mondiale

 

 

29th Sunday of Year A

19 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: adoration, beneficiaries, Caesar, give back, God, kindness, Mt.22 :15-21, obey the law, pay taxes, respect, voting, wisdom

The last verse of this Sunday’s gospel text (29th of Year A – Mt.22 :15-21) is so well-know to us that we sometimes use it ourselves… for our own purposes!
“Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

The meaning of the words is obvious and we do not question what the saying aims at as far as Caesar is concerned.
People will immediately think of such duties as: obeying the law, paying taxes, selecting just leaders by voting and… paying fines (if one is guilty of an offence involving such returns).
And what belongs to God? What are we expected to ‘render’ him?
Some will say: respect, adoration, obedience, prayer, thanksgiving, etc.
And much more…

All in all, it is plain, clear, simple, obvious!
But as I reflect on this gospel text I tell myself that, perhaps, yes perhaps… I should add something.
Not to the list of items to ‘give back’ but to the… beneficiaries!
Somehow, I feel that there are a number of people to whom I should return something for what they have done, and keep doing, for me.

My mind brings back to me the memory of:

– The good teachers who have provided me with sound knowledge.
– The skilled surgeon who operated on me and the medical staff who assisted him in bringing me back to health.
– The lawyer who wisely defended me when I had been wrongfully accused of a misdeed.
– The kind neighbour always ready to help me with this or that.
– The faithful friend always there when I need her assistance.
– The dynamic fellow coaching my children in their sport activities.
– The ever-smiling garage mechanic on whom I can safely rely.

This is my list… and you surely have yours…
I feel I should give back something to them for their kindness, their assistance, their good-humour, the wisdom they share with me, and their presence when I am in need.

Yes, I SHALL give back to Caesar, to God, and… to all those kind-hearted people who make life so much lighter and enjoyable!

Image: stjohspr.org

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World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty – 17 October

17 octobre 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: human rights, humanity, hunger, ignorance, poverty, respect, violence

On October 17, 1987,World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty , at the call of Father Joseph Wresinski , 100,000 human rights defenders gathered at the Parvis du Trocadéro in Paris to honor the victims of hunger, violence, ignorance and violence. To say their refusal of misery and call on humanity to unite to make respect for Human Rights..

A slab, proclaiming this message, was inaugurated on this occasion on the Parvis des Libertés and Human Rights, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948.

Source: Text: Zyppia, NationalPedia Image:UN