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One of Pope Francis’ ‘popemobiles’ was transformed into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza
A vehicle used by the late Pope Francis during a visit to Bethlehem in 2014 has officially been converted into a mobile health clinic that will soon provide health care to children in Gaza.
Francis stood on an open platform at the back of the vehicle while travelling through Bethlehem, which has now been enclosed and transformed into a treatment area.
Francis blessed the initiative before he passed away in April. And the Cardinal who asked him about it said the vehicle now “stands as a testimony that the world has not forgotten the children of Gaza.”
Why is this good news? When it’s able to enter Gaza, this mobile clinic will provide essential medical care, which is still desperately needed considering that at least 67 children have been killed in “conflict-related incidents” since the ceasefire went into effect.
James Cameron confirmed no generative AI was used to make “Avatar.” While he said he was “not negative about generative AI” more generally, but stressed that only real, human actors brought the movie’s characters to life, saying, “We honor and celebrate actors. We don’t replace actors.”
An Indiana woman runs a 24-hour day care center to keep children on their working parents’ schedule
As Amanda Yochum says, “The business of making cars runs 24/7, and so do our day care centers.” Parents who work in factories at night need to sleep during the day — and they need their children to, too.
Yochum runs the 24-hour Bright Horizons day care centers in Kentucky and Indiana, where Toyota’s manufacturing plants are some of the largest employers.
The kids engage in the same play and learning activities that kids would during the day, and the unique approach provides “crucial” support for working parents.
“Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection”
By John Green
John Green’s newly-crowned Libro.fm Audiobook of the Year, “Everything is Tuberculosis” details the experiences of a young TB patient named Henry, whom Green met in 2019 when traveling with Partners in Health. Building on Green’s years of activism and education around the world’s deadliest (and entirely curable) infectious disease, the book interweaves Henry’s story with the medical and social history of the disease.
Why we love it:The fact that a disease that has been curable since the 1950s remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease is a “properly catastrophic human failure,” as Green puts it.
We’ve already learned so much from Green about tuberculosis, and this book is a critical resource that “humanizes and gives hope” to addressing the disease — it’s the perfect read to finish the year with, or put atop your 2026 list.
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