Youths march to highlight suicide
- 1. Youths march to highlight suicidewww.uca.news
- 2. Angels for Pro-Life, a recently established teenage anti-suicide group has staged a street
- 3. campaign to try and reduce the numbers of youth suicides in South Korea.
- 4. Seoul archdioceses One Body One Spirit Movement paraded through the capitals
- 5. Myeongdong shopping district on Saturday with the youth group to help them get their message across.
- 6. Some 150 youths from various parishes around Seoul such as Moonjung2-dong and
- 7. Gaepo-dong as well from some high schools participated in the event.
- 8. The Suicide Prevention Center of the One Body One Spirit Movement has been teaching youths to have respect for life and ways of preventing
- 9. suicides through a youth class for life which began in March last year.
- 10. Young people from around 10 schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do Province joined the class.
- 11. Angels for Pro-Life will play a significant role in suicide prevention in each parish and
- 12. school, Sister Gloria Kim Bo-mi, director of the center said.
- 13. A national police agency report released earlier this month said South Korea has the highest rate of suicides in the world.
- 14. According to Statistics Korea,the teenage suicide rate in the country was 6.5 per 100,000 in 2009, up from 4.6 per 100,000 the previous year.
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