Advocates of breast-feeding in the Philippines will try anew to break their own record set last year, by organizing the biggest simultaneous breast-feeding event on Wednesday.

The Children for Breast-feeding, with its partner, Nurturers of the Earth, has invited mothers to participate in a simultaneous breast-feeding program in at least 40,000 day-care centers all over the Philippines.

In a continent suffering from a massive AIDS epidemic, the president of the small West African nation of Gambia is taking a more non-conventional approach to tackling the disease.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, a 41-year old former army colonel seized control of his country in a 1994 coup, says his treatment is effective in combating the deadly AIDS virus.

Organizers of the 12 Association of Southeast Asian Nations an East Asian Summits are lavishing nuns in Cebu City, Philippines with eggs and other goodies to ask them to pray to heaven for good weather this week.

The Philippines abruptly canceled the twin summits last month and blamed the approaching typhoon, which eventually missed the venue, for the postponement. Now local officials do not want a repeat of the cancellation and are asking nuns to pray for divine intervention for a good weather.

In a bid to spread family planning awareness, the Muslim clerics in Pakistan have decided to distribute contraceptives in the mosques. This comes as shocking news from a conservative country where mere discussion of sex is considered a taboo.

The Muslim dominated country's birth rate was 1.86 percent and the country wants to bring it down to 1.3 percent by 2020.

A Dominican priest in Poland has introduced a new Catholic prayers aimed at teenagers, including a prayer for God's assistance to avoid trash talking when drunk.

The prayer reads, "Lord, if in an unsober state, and under the influence of those around me, I say something stupid, please give me strength to retract my words. Protect me against senseless bravado and pride."