Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
World’s Oldest Narrative Cave Painting Is at Least 51,200 Years Old, Scientists Say
In 2021, GNN reported that a painting of a Sulawesi warty pig on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia had become the oldest cave painting ever discovered—dating back 45,000 years. Well not only has that record been broken—with another painting on the same island—but...
Over 100 Dolphins Saved from Historic Mass Stranding in Cape Cod
125 dolphins became stranded in shallow mud flats off Cape Cod, Massachusetts in what one rescue organization calls its largest single mass stranding event in decades. The first report was initially understood to be 10 Atlantic white-sided dolphins close to shore off...
World’s Most Popular YouTuber Builds 100 Homes for South Americans in Disaster Areas
In a video entitled ‘I Built 100 Houses And Gave Them Away’ the world’s most popular YouTuber continued to demonstrate that his channel is for more than crazy videos. James Donaldson, aka ‘MrBeast’ has 300 million subscribers, and they tune in to watch him perform...
Washed up Hi-Tech Tracker Buoys Brilliantly Redeployed to Protect Turtles from ‘Ghost Nets’
Hi-tech GPS-tracking buoys washing up on Australian beaches were a strange find during a litter clean-up for the non-profit Tangaroa Blue. On a normal day of operations for the marine debris prevention group, large numbers of these buoys were discovered on Cape York...
Look Out World, 12-year-old ‘Progidy’Graduates from High School and Heads to College for Double Major
12-year-old Suborno Bari has graduated from high school, completing just grades 10 and 12 when all was said and done, skipping 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades in the process. He is the youngest-ever scholar to graduate from Malverne High School in Malverne, New...
88-year-old ‘Proud’ Foster Mom Retires After Raising Over 40 Children
Special recognition has been paid to a senior foster mom from Maryland: senior because she’s 88 years old, and senior because she’s one of the most experienced long-term foster moms in the American foster home system. Since opening her home in Montgomery County in the...
The Vatican Goes Green: Pope Francis Announces New Suburban Solar Plant to Power Vatican City
There’s no country anywhere on Earth that’s entirely powered by renewable energy every day, but that’s soon to change. In a letter released on June 21 entitled “Brother Sun” Pope Francis announced his intention to transition Vatican City onto 100% renewable energy...
Kindness of Strangers Buoys a Family Caring for Their Terminally Ill 6-year-old Girl
A saga in Australia’s news media has come to a head in the best possible way, as a struggling family and their terminally ill 6-year-old daughter are being moved into special housing ’round the clock care. ABC News Down Under originally broke the story on June 23rd...
Man With Locked-in Syndrome Completes 50k Word Book – Using Just His Eyes
An Englishman living with rare locked-in syndrome has completed a 50,000 word autobiography, using just his eyes. Howard Wicks suffered a serious stroke as a teenager in Devon, leaving every muscle in his body paralyzed, except for his eyes. The book chronicles the...