Four weeks fast

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For Muslims in Germany, the fasting month of Ramadan begins on Tuesday evening. The fasting period, which has been celebrated at the same time by all Islamic associations since 2008, is one of the five pillars of Islam.

The chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, called on believers in Cologne on Monday to use Ramadan for worship and to work for peace."There must be no place for hatred, exclusion and racism in our society." On 15. June marks the end of Ramadan with Eid celebrations.

Fasting at the same time

Since 2008, the four Islamic associations that make up the Coordinating Council of Muslims have been celebrating Ramadan at the same time. According to its own information, they follow the basis developed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which is based on the earliest sighting of the new moon in the respective region.

In addition to the Central Council, the Turkish Islamic Association Ditib, the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers (VIKZ) and the Islamic Council are also members of the Coordination Council.

During the fasting month of Ramadan, Muslim believers are called upon to abstain from food, drink, smoking and sexual intercourse from sunrise to sunset. In the evening, they often meet with friends and relatives to break their fast together (Arabic: iftar).

Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. Children, the elderly and sick, pregnant women and travelers, as well as soldiers at war, would be exempt from the ban.

The conversion of the worldwide motor vehicle fleets on Ethanol demands the Olreserven – Cities, but reckon with a high air burden, has investigated a US researcher

Who as a cyclist daily the exhaust gases petrol and diesel-driven cars snuffles, the woman is instinctively, which the chemists can also measure: Healthy is not. In the combustion of gasoline in the automotive engine, canceling substances such as benzen and butadiene. After all, three quarters of benzen emissions in the air go back on car gasoline. On the other hand, the fuel Ethanol producible from renewable raw materials burns clean, so at least the gear ratio, to water and carbon dioxide.

The fact that the use of bio-fuel as a fuel reduces the load on the earth’s atmosphere with the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is still undisputed – the released CO2 have received the plants in advance from the air. Ethanol is therefore not taxed in Germany today as a fossil mineralol – this scheme is soon (predominantly serene, only on the biosprit clouds). In Europe, there are tarpaulins and directives to use the gasoline to a minimum share of alcohol. It is all about a proportion of well funf percent (which can handle any more common gasoline engine) – while in countries such as Brazil, Colombia and the USA already 85 percent mixes from ethanol and gasoline ("E85") to have petrol stations (the Only for specially constructed motors are useful).

However, even with a complete conversion of the car fleets to such mixtures is still healthy to leave the car in the garage. In city areas, E85 even increased the environmental impact: the US researcher Mark Jacobson from the University of Stanford has calculated with the help of computer models, that the death rate through exhaust gas-related pollution in coarse American bads through E85 increased by several percent love. He has his results in the expert magazine Environmental Science TechnologyTee. Above all, the ozone – a molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms is. Already today the ozonni levels in coarse stades increase in some days to a health-hazardous level.

Art mortgages in the US through gasoline and ethanol. Image: Mark Jacobson, Stanford University

This trend was still overturned in the future. Los Angeles alone had to reckon in 2020 with around 650 additional hospital supplies that are too high over Ozonlevel. The scientist emphasizes the scientist that his results are also valid for urban regions in Europe. "The strongest is the effects in the citys whose air are heavily burdened with nitrogen oxides, as they come from diesel trucks.", Says Jacobson. In addition, he still has a paradox appearing restriction: in the city with "Gruner lung", many public parks and green facilities, the harmful effects of ethanol are less clear. But this is not because the plants reduce the poison gases – on the contrary, their own organic emissions then exceed the vehicles operated by E85.

If the fact that city dwellers have to be more coughing through E85, at least thereby balanced that they die rarely on exhaust gases to die cancer diseases? Probably not: From the exhaust of ethanol-powered vehicles, there are more formaldehyde and acetaldehyde known as cancer outers. Because these factors added to the ethical dilemma to produce fuel from food (biosprit and fear of rising beer prices), researchers are planning Jacobson for hydrogen cars in the form of hybrid or fuel cell vehicles whose raw materials are environmentally friendly with the help of wind and wind Generate solar energy.

The Church shows remorse: Poland's Catholic bishops have acknowledged shortcomings in protecting children from sexual abuse. "We confess that as shepherds of the Church we have not done everything possible to prevent suffering."

This was stated by the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference in a message to the faithful published on Wednesday, which will be read out at church services next Sunday. For many faithful, the "sexual scandals involving clergy would be a severe test of faith and a great annoyance," it says.

Special meeting of the Permanent Council

In view of the nationwide horror triggered by a documentary film about child sexual abuse by Catholic priests and the cover-up of these crimes by the Church, the Permanent Council of the Bishops' Conference met in Warsaw for a special session.

In their statement, the bishops advocate "harsh consequences for the criminals and those who concealed such acts". It said there is "no word that can express our shame for the sexual scandals involving clergy".

Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of the bishops' conference, emphasized his sadness about the child abuse. On behalf of the bishops, he apologized again to "all who were touched by this sin and at the same time crime".

The bishops' statement, titled "Sensitivity and Responsibility," shows the "way out of the crisis," according to Piotr Studnicki, spokesman for the church's Child Protection Center. So the victims should be better helped. A group of experts will work to intensify prevention against sexual violence, he said.

Majority in favor of resignation of entire bishops' conference

In their message, the bishops thank "all those who have the courage to tell of their suffering". They also quote a 39-year-old woman from the documentary "Just Don't Tell Anyone" who was abused by a priest as a child. The film shown on the video platform YouTube and on television was already seen by about every second adult Pole, according to a survey.

According to the report, a majority of 54 percent favored the resignation of the entire bishops' conference. In response to the film, the government announced the creation of a commission to investigate child sexual abuse in the church, sports and other areas.

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