World Vision in the News Index 2003

Cleveland Indians' Omar Vizquel speaks out on behalf of World Vision.		World Vision in the News takes a look at national and international media reports on World Vision's work around the globe. Scroll down to read or listen to these reports.

December 22 2003		Kids Collect $15K for the Poor A dairy cow, mosquito bed nets and mouth surgery aren't your typical Christmas gifts. But in the Three Rivers Local School District, such gift-giving is a tradition. A growing tradition. ... read more
December 1, 2003		Let Africans Decide How to Fight AIDS As the United States prepares to implement President Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, special interests on both sides of the social-political spectrum are attempting to export some of the worst of America's prejudices to Africa. ... read more
September 24, 2003		Cutting Out the Diamonds That Kill When international delegates gather in Sun City, South Africa, later this month, the debate will center on the deadly trade in "blood diamonds," and the United States is poised to play a key role. ... read more
September 24, 2003		Liberia Strives for Peace; Believers Deliver Some 4,500 Liberian refugees have fled to Guinea's southern forest region in the past 10 days to escape continued fighting and instability in the West African state, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. ... read more
September 10, 2003		World Vision Takes a Brave Stand in Iraq After deadly bombings of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and the revered Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, several aid groups pulled up stakes and left Iraq. ... read more
September 3, 2003		Chaos Reigns in Liberia We begin today in Liberia where chaos continues to reign as the country attempts to begin anew. World Vision's Kevin Cook is in Monrovia helping distribute food aid all in the name of Christ. ... read more
August 29, 2003		In Faithful Service Raising the walls of a community center in Chestnut Ridge, W.Va., has given a group of local teens a fever for benevolence. ... read more
August 20, 2003		Harrowing Tale of Shipwreck Off African Coast Recounted The life raft was gone, blown away by the wind. The ship's stern was low in the water and aground on a sandbar. The 19 crew were on the bow and some were saying what people often say in such straits: "We're all going to die." ... read more
July 8, 2003		A trip back in time to Cambodia I felt myself moving several centuries back in time when I and some others flew to Cambodia in November to teach courses to health-care workers on behalf of World Vision ... read more
		Liberians Exult as U.S. Marines Come Ashore World Vision staff re-establishing operations and seeking to recover after looting and destruction of offices ... read more
July 22, 2003		Local relief agencies stalled in Liberia All they can do is wait. For the shelling to stop. For law and order to emerge. For a war-ravaged nation to step toward peace..... read more
July 22, 2003		Liberia Rebels Push Ahead Rebels pushed toward the heart of Liberia's embattled capital Sunday, trading heavy artillery fire with government troops and sending throngs of civilians into the streets seeking shelter .... read more
July 22, 2003		90 Die in Fight to Take Liberian Capital U.S. Marines arrived by helicopter Monday to protect the U.S. Embassy and help evacuate foreigners as the capital fell under the heaviest shelling to date, and hundreds of enraged Liberians, in a desperate offering before the country they call their "big brother," laid mutilated corpses by the embassy's shuttered black steel gate .... read more
July 22, 2003		Liberia Civil War Claims 90 Lives A thundering barrage of mortars shook Liberia’s capital, hitting two US Embassy compounds and residential neighbourhoods and killing more than 90 people, as government and rebel forces fought over President Charles Taylor’s last stronghold..... read more
July 22, 2003		Chaos, Killing Rock Capital of Liberia Mortar shells rained down on this coastal capital Monday, killing and maiming scores of civilians as a small force of U.S. Marines arrived to bolster security at the besieged U.S. Embassy.... read more
July 21, 2003		Liberia Fighting Leaves at Least 60 Dead Heavy fighting engulfed the Liberian capital Monday, killing at least 60 people as mortars pounded the city in an all-out battle between rebels and forces of President Charles Taylor.... read more
PBS July 11, 2003		The U.S. and AIDS Here at home, U.S. religious and humanitarian groups have been lobbying Congress to appropriate the money for African aid the President has called for -- including $15 billion dollars to combat AIDS in Africa and elsewhere over the next five years ... read more
June 13, 2003		Evangelical Christians Lobby for AIDS Funds They admit they are coming late to the battle against HIV and AIDS. But evangelical Christians went to Capitol Hill yesterday to lobby for full funding of President Bush's five-year, $15 billion program to prevent and treat the disease in Africa and the Caribbean .... read more
April 16, 2003		In Sewickley, Supplies Build Up for Iraqi Refugees As the bombs dropped in Baghdad, volunteers sat on the floor of a Sewickley warehouse counting sterile bandages. All around them were floor-to-ceiling shelves loaded with boxes of supplies ... read more
February 6, 2003		The Tears of Africa One day last February my village had five funerals. We are a village of 300, and one funeral is enough, but that day there were five. ... read more