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Asks UN to Fight Child Mortality
NEW YORK, APRIL 13, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Every year some 500,000 mothers die in childbirth, and almost all of these occur in developing countries, the permanent observer of the Holy See at the United Nations pointed out.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, in an address Monday before the U.N. Economic and Social Council’s commission on population and development, noted that “not only do the lives of these mothers end in tragedy but also the lives of their babies begin in turmoil.”
“In the aftermath, the chance of survival of their young children decreases dramatically resulting in the disintegration of their families and hindrance to local development,” he said.
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NEW YORK, APRIL 13, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Every year some 500,000 mothers die in childbirth, and almost all of these occur in developing countries, the permanent observer of the Holy See at the United Nations pointed out.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, in an address Monday before the U.N. Economic and Social Council’s commission on population and development, noted that “not only do the lives of these mothers end in tragedy but also the lives of their babies begin in turmoil.”
“In the aftermath, the chance of survival of their young children decreases dramatically resulting in the disintegration of their families and hindrance to local development,” he said.
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