Sunday, May 30, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Christian Aid made to apologise for sex abuse claim - 'Christian Aid has apologised "unreservedly" after it claimed Israeli settlers had sexually abused Palestinian children in Hebron. The false allegations came after Miranda Pinch, a social worker from Winchester, had travelled to the West Bank town in January to "monitor human rights abuses" as part of an accompaniment programme part-funded by the charity. The 59-year-old, who converted from Judaism to Christianity, returned from the trip and told Christian Aid that a Palestinian headmistress had made allegations of verbal abuse. But promoting Ms Pinch's trip, Christian Aid said the headmistress had alleged that "some of the children had been sexually abused on their way home" by Israeli settlers...'
