Davos People vs. Soccer Slaves, Part-Time Priest, and Homeless
(Davos People vs Soccer Esclaves, à temps partiel Priest, et Homeless)
Late last nigh in Japan, around midnight close to the Sunday, I was listening to the BBC Radio over the Internet.
They repeatedly referred to the address Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda delivered in the World Economic Forum in Davos.
As the G8 Summit is to be held in Japan this year, the Prime Minister focused his speech on the climate change and necessary technology development.
However, a more interesting topic the BBC Radio presented was the soccer slavery: many young Africans are recruited on streets in African by soccer scouts to be brought to Europe.
But, if those young Africans got injured or failed in trials or real games, they are thrown out to a street in Europe without any compensation and support.
Then most of them suddenly find that a passport each of them was given in Africa is a kind of fake.
In this criminal scheme, even some staff members in embassies of African countries in Europe are involved.
- In the U.S., in a small town, there is a church for African Americans, where no professional priests are hired to preside over the mass and other administration.
A manual worker in a factory or a part-time worker in a supermarket plays a role of the priest in this small church.
I think that this is one of the best churches in the world.
- In Japan, a middle aged homeless wrote in his blog that there are only two types of people for him in this world: those who only think of their own happiness and others who mind and take care of happiness of others as with their own.
What is worse is that the former often blame the latter when those humane people try to help and support homeless people, saying that it is not just good.
I think that this is one of the best reports in blogs in Japan.
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Then, have a nice Sunday night!
(Strangely January has 31 days.
As I often think that December 30 is the 365th day in a leap year when December 25 is 360th day, I wonder why January has 31 days.
However, most of you might not be concerned with such a calculation...)
Mar 12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mar 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mar 12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Mar 12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
Mar 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mar 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.