Eye on the world: Compassion and goodness are abundant

In an article titled “Europe's crises of givingThe Christian Science Monitor notes that Europe’s struggle to resolve financial and migrant crises has resulted in “compassion fatigue.” But the Monitor also points out: “Europe’s current hand-wringing is, at heart, a lesson about its giving spirit. It would be too easy to focus on each crisis and lose sight of how much Europe remains a model of compassion…. If Europeans were to better recognize the ‘commonplace’ of good in their lives … it might help solve these crises and also enable others to see themselves as capable of doing good.”

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