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The Guys from `One Direction` Refuse Drugs

Young performers in Europe are discouraging drug use among kids.

(MADRID) - Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson became famous thanks to a television contest, sponsored by producer Simon Cowell.

Their first album, “Up All Night”, has sold over five million copies, which led them to be number one in Billboard ranking.

Hurray for Gurdon and Yamanaka, Nobel Prize Winners for Pro-life Medicine

Yamanaka created four types of genes that supply cells with their pluripotentiality, in other words, the same capacity that embryonic stem cells have.

(MADRID) - The research studies carried out by John B. Gurdon (Anglo-Saxon) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japanese) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. These two scientists are considered of being the fathers of cellular reprogramming.

They have achieved to create cells that behave identically to embryonic cells, however, without having to destroy human embryos.

How Far Can Your Freedom Go?

Free will and giving it up do not contradict each other; they always reciprocally protect one another.

(MADRID) - German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe once explained that if someone who in the name of liberty gives up being one’s true self, then it is like that person is committing suicide.

A certain type of ethic, which gives as a good standard a double morality in many areas of human existence, is spreading like a deadly narcotic.

Drugs Dehumanize and Enslave Human Beings

Drugs are hustled around within marginal environments of misfortune and poverty. There are more than one thousand huts that house those clans who vegetate in brittle situations.

(MADRID) - The Foundation Against Drug Addiction has launched an ad campaign, inter alia, under the following slogan: “Drugs do not only damage those who consume them”.

“Everything has a price”. This campaign aims to raise awareness about the sinister presence of drugs within society.

Increased Intolerance of Christians in Christian Countries

During his visit to the United Kingdom, Pope Benedict XVI qualified that discrimination against Christians is a serious problem in Europe.

(MADRID) - “The bishops of Europe are especially aware of the manifestations of discrimination and intolerance of religion confirm that some values and rights that are fundamental to Europe are far from a reality in some countries on the continent,” said Catholic Bishop András Veres of Szombathely, Hungary.

He was quoted in a 2011 report in Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on discrimination against religion in Europe.

Celebrities for Solidarity for the Indigent and the Disadvantaged

The Spanish Association against Cancer launched the "a lot to live for" fundraiser.

(MADRID) - José Carreras, tenor singer, was present at the regatta for solidarity held in Palma de Mallorca organized by boatyard Bavaria Yatchs and the headquarters of the José Carreras Foundation in Germany.

It was one week of open sail during which sixty sailors declared their support to fund for the José Carreras Foundation

The Parallel Crisis: 50,000 Children Die from Hunger Every Day

It is also estimated that 400 million children are slaves for the despotism of exploitation.

(MADRID, Spain) - The Sahel region in Africa is facing a severe food crisis. The droughts of 2005, 2010 and 2012, along with increased insecurity, are driving many families into chaos.

More than one million children have no access to food, medicines, safe drinking water, sanitation or education.

Danger, `In Vitro` Fertilized Children May be Born with Malformations

'In vitro' fertilization unites male and female reproductive cells them outside of the human body.

(MADRID, Spain) - According to a recent study, infants conceived with the techniques used in fertility clinics are four times more likely to have certain birth defects.

Among the malformations are heart problems, cleft lips, cleft palates and abnormalities in the esophagus or rectum.

What if My Child Gets Caught in a Social Network?

The public now has all the power through social networks.

(MADRID, Spain) - The International Communication for Children Festival 'The Pacifier' was born to channel communication that targets children and improve the quality of the information that is transmitted.

It awards the best works of communication for children.

Grandparents, the Guardians of their Grandchildren

There are programs designed to help...

(MADRID, Spain) - A research study entitled "The Generation of Transition; between Work and Retirement", reveals that for thousands of years the family model included not only a father and a mother who were good parents, but also a grandmother who helped them with the task of child raising.