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- A NUN IN BANGLADESH
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- An Irish nun is visiting Bangladesh, staying at a
- Christian hostel in Dacca. On her second evening in the
- city, she steps outside for a breath of air and finds an
- emaciated baby deserted on the doorstep. She takes the baby
- in,feeds it,doctors it, bathes it, and then goes out
- searching for the mother, who is nowhere to be found.
- The next morning the nun finds a second starving baby lying
- in the street in front of the hostel. So she takes the
- second baby in. Then she goes off to the local police
- station to report the missing babies and to seek advice.
- The advice is to put the babies back in the street or,
- the police officer says, you will find four more babies
- tomorrow.
- "What on earth am I to do?" the nun says later in the
- day. "Am I to put them out to starve?"
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- CATASTROPHIC CONDITIONS MAY OVERCOME COMPASSION