by Good News Network Christmas 2025 is better and brighter for one family whose daughter is on the mend from a previously untreatable form of childhood cancer. Christmas 2024 saw then-5-year-old Bryn Ailinger isolated in a child cancer ward, having been diagnosed with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia which harbored a rare and …
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Children Walk With Help Of “Miracle” Device
by Andy Corbley Good News Network A unique robotic exoskeleton is allowing children with developmental disorders to walk—often for the first time. First Steps Wellness Center of Regina, Saskatchewan is eager to get families to come by and try it out. It can be used to correct a child’s gait or help them …
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Court Rules In Favor Of Blind Job Seekers
by Ruchi Bhattar The Print (India) New Delhi: A high court on Thursday, delivered a victory to three blind job seekers in India. In a landmark judgment addressing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPWD Act), the Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) cannot disqualify blind candidates …
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Man Saves Lives By Teaching Swimming
by Kevin Burton Not eating before a swim, that’s an old wives tale. That will cause you no problems. But water safety is a big deal, worthy of everyone’s attention. Both stories we present today are on the subject of swimming and water safety and were written by Andy Corbley of the Good …
Foreign Words With No English Equivalent
by Interesting Facts With the right combination of words and expressions, we can communicate anything our hearts desire. That’s the power of language. But what about those times when you’re looking for a single word rather than an entire sentence to sum up a thought or feeling? For that, we can look to …
From India With Love: Ten Borrowed Words
by Kevin Burton Hindi and Urdu are two of the languages spoken in India. Today, a list of words borrowed from those languages, courtesy of Merriam-Webster. You can thank the dictionary and me today, if you are sleepy, or need to wash your hair: Pajamas: a loose usually two-piece lightweight suit designed especially for …
Good News From the Math Classroom
by Kevin Burton Today on Page 7 we do the math. I found two math-related stories on the Good News Network. The first shows that students did better in math when music is incorporated into the lessons. “A new study explored the causal role that music engagement has on student achievement in …
Blind Women Helping Detect Breast Cancer
In a bare room in a remote government-run primary health center in Vapi, a city in the south-west Indian state of Gujarat, Meenakshi Gupta holds a diagram of a woman’s breast with five Braille-marked orientation tapes pasted on it. Speaking to the woman sitting on the bed, she says: “I’ll paste these skin-friendly tapes on your …
A Little Good News Goes A Long Way
by Kevin Burton Have you had enough of the shouters and the doubters, the doom and the gloom? How about a little good news? The Apostle Paul encouraged people to focus on things that are true, honest, just and pure. “If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on …
The Case For George Harrison, Best Beatle
by Kevin Burton I asked a co-worker, a big Beatles fan who has played guitar since high school, for his opinion on The Big Question: Who was the most essential Beatle? I suppose I was spoiling for a McCartney/Lennon fight. That discussion goes to Paul McCartney and John Lennon and stops there, right? …
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