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Moravian Church Settlements — Bethlehem Hosts International Ceremony for UNESCO World Heritage Honor

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Representatives from the United States, Denmark, Northern Ireland/United Kingdom, and Germany Gather to Mark Historic Transnational UNESCO World Heritage Inscription of Moravian Church Settlements

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — On Thursday, the Bethlehem World Heritage Council and Commission along with the City of Bethlehem, Bethlehem Area Moravians, Central Moravian Church, Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites, and Moravian University celebrated the momentous transnational inscription of the Moravian Church Settlements to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

This recognition not only honors the rich cultural and historical significance of the Moravian Church Settlements but also places Bethlehem on the world stage as a guardian of our shared human heritage.

Delegates from the United States; Christiansfeld, Denmark; Gracehill, Northern Ireland/U.K.; and Herrnhut, Germany gathered in Bethlehem for several days to take part in the official inscription ceremony and to reflect on the significance of this honor for the worldwide Moravian Church.

The celebrations included a worship service featuring the voices of the Moravian Church Settlements in addition to the official International Recognition of Inscription Ceremony followed by a press conference and delegates dinner featuring a performance from the Bach Choir.

“It is an extraordinary privilege to welcome our World Heritage friends and partners to Bethlehem for this long-anticipated inscription ceremony,” said Moravian University President Bryon L. Grigsby. “This recognition not only honors the rich cultural and historical significance of the Moravian Church Settlements but also places Bethlehem on the world stage as a guardian of our shared human heritage. Today, we celebrate a momentous milestone for the U.S., but also a shared global commitment along with our partners in Denmark, Northern Ireland, U.K., and Germany, to preserve the legacy and values of a community that has connected continents and cultures for centuries.”

Moravian Church Settlements — Bethlehem welcomed several high-ranking officials at the celebration including U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO Courtney O’Donnell, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard R. Verma, and Director of the World Heritage Centre Lazare Eloundou-Assomo.

“Returning to Bethlehem for such a significant event is deeply meaningful,” said Deputy Secretary of State Richard R. Verma, a former Lehigh University graduate. “The inscription of the Moravian Church Settlements as a UNESCO World Heritage Site honors their cultural and historical significance. The United States is proud to play a key role in ensuring that World Heritage protects both natural and cultural sites of outstanding value, reflecting our commitment to preserving our rich heritage for generations to come.”

Representatives from the National Park Service were also in attendance to celebrate the historic moment and participate in the presentation of the Certificate of Inscription.

Bethlehem joins a very select group of American places, including the Grand Canyon and Independence Hall, that have been named World Heritage sites because of their outstanding universal value,” said Pedro Ramos, acting National Park Service deputy director for Congressional and External Affairs. “The National Park Service, on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, is responsible for identifying and nominating U.S. sites to the World Heritage List. It was an honor to accept the Certificate of Inscription from UNESCO and present it to the City of Bethlehem for their dedication to safeguarding these treasures.”

Moravian Church Settlements is the first transnational, serial World Heritage Site in the U.S. and is the result of a decades-long effort among Bethlehem Area Moravians, Central Moravian Church, City of Bethlehem, Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites, Moravian University, and with the support of Northampton County and others. Moravian Church Settlements — Bethlehem is now the 26th World Heritage site in the United States and the third in Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit https://moravianchurchsettlements.org.

ABOUT MORAVIAN CHURCH SETTLEMENTS

Moravian Church Settlements is a transnational extension of Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement in Denmark founded in 1773 and inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2015. The Moravian Church is a Protestant denomination in the free church tradition centered in Herrnhut, Saxony, Germany. The extension includes three additional component parts:

Bethlehem (USA) was established in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1741. This highlights the early transatlantic dimension of the Moravian Church phenomenon during a prolific settlement-building decade and added the cultural dimension of the Moravians’ outreach to Native Americans.

Gracehill (U.K.) was founded in Northern Ireland in 1759. It represents the significance of the Moravian Church in the U.K. and exemplifies a unique series of ‘ideal’ urban plans that demonstrate a notable gender axis. This is showcased by the division of the town plan into a sisters’ side and a brothers’ side, which directly reflects the fundamental functional structure of Moravian society.

Herrnhut (Germany) is considered the ‘mother’ or ‘founding town’ of the Renewed Moravian Church. It was established in 1722 in Saxony and evolved in line with the development of Moravian theology and societal ideals. This town defined the principles of all Moravian Church settlements.

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Craig Larimer, Moravian Church Settlements — Bethlehem, 610-360-0419, larimerc@moravianchurchsettlements.org 

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Curio Digital Therapeutics Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enhancing Women’s Maternal Mental Healthcare with its MamaLift and MamaLift Plus Solutions

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MamaLift ensures personalized care tailored to each woman’s journey through motherhood, empowering them to manage stress, embrace joy, and reduce the risk of depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy.

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan assessed the women’s health digital therapeutics industry, and based on its analysis results, recognizes Curio Digital Therapeutics with the 2024 Global New Product Innovation Award. The company is a leading developer of innovative digital health solutions focused on women’s mental health. It utilizes a predictive algorithm for early identification and triage of common mental health disorders affecting women, turning data into actionable insights. Curio then offers cutting-edge digital self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs integrated with live health coaches, providing on-demand care. It makes mental health support accessible to women globally, applying consistent scientific principles across different regions to address common mental and behavioral disorders. Its platform mitigates the stigma surrounding mental health issues by offering anonymity, thus empowering women to seek assistance with greater freedom and confidence.

Curio’s MamaLift is a general wellness product that manages neurobehavioral symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum period. It empowers mothers to manage stress, anxiety, and other neurobehavioral symptoms by providing bite-sized digital doses of CBT, evidence-based self management tools, insightful trackers, and on-demand access to health coaches. Curio’s “digital dose” approach uniquely ensures user-friendliness, requiring only 10 minutes of daily engagement. It caters to the busy lives of mothers, offering flexibility with audio, visual, reading and gamification options tailored to individual preferences. The platform simplifies complex mental health challenges into small, interactive, manageable tasks, facilitating easy integration into daily routines. Its feedback loop allows users to rate their experiences and provide free-text comments on each module for continuous improvement, keeping the platform responsive and user-focused. Available 24/7, it provides continuous support through adaptable self-guided modules customized to each user’s unique needs based on cultural values, nutritional habits, and personal lifestyles, ensuring personalized care throughout their motherhood journey.

Manuel Albornoz, Best Practices Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan, observed “Curio distinguishes itself by building the largest body of evidence, with seven clinical studies published, and delivering a remarkable 5:1 return on investment. Curio’s comprehensive, AI-driven platform excels in early identification and risk stratification, significantly improving mental health outcomes for women.”

Curio’s MamaLift Plus, on the other hand, is a prescription-only digital therapeutic solution intended to provide neurobehavioral interventions to patients aged at least 22 years, as an adjunct to clinician-managed outpatient care. It treats mild to moderate postpartum depression by improving a patient’s symptoms of depression. MamaLift Plus delivers digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Behavioral Activation Therapy (BAT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for postpartum depression. These neurobehavioral treatments focus on addressing the maladaptive behaviors, routines, and dysfunctional thoughts that perpetuate during postpartum depression. Integrating and personalizing multiple therapeutic modalities, the company provides a robust, user-centered experience, fostering better engagement and more meaningful health outcomes. With a strong focus on quality, regulatory compliance, and comprehensive reporting, Curio sets new standards in women’s healthcare, making it a market leader in digital therapeutics for mental health.

“Curio platform’s high adherence underscores its effectiveness in maintaining user engagement and delivering consistent mental health benefits. The company employs cutting-edge neurobehavioral therapy programs to address risk factors for postpartum depression. The program’s daily learning modules foster essential psychological skills such as emotion regulation, psychological flexibility, and self-compassion, providing mothers with the tools they need to navigate the challenges of motherhood,” added Supriya Lal Kundu, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed an innovative element in a product by leveraging leading-edge technologies. The award recognizes the value-added features/benefits of the product and the increased return on investment (ROI) it gives customers, which, in turn, raises customer acquisition and overall market penetration potential.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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inDrive.Outstation Witnesses a Surge in Orders during festive season

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NEW DELHI, Oct. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — inDrive.Outstation, comfortable rides between cities at one’s price, doubled their number of orders and audience over key dates during India’s festival season, when people travel for religious reasons, tourism and to celebrate with family.

Diwali, one of India’s biggest festivals, typically leads to high travel volumes as people visit family and friends. Dussehra, Bhai Dooj, another important festivals linked to Diwali, also contributes to continued travel until after Diwali week.

In November, last year around the time of these festivals, inDrive.Outstation orders in Delhi rose by 113%, 74% in Chandigarh, and 88% in Mumbai. inDrive.Outstation also demonstrated good growth in other cities, with an 124% uptick in orders in Ahmedabad, 120% in Meerut, and 116% in Agra during this period.

“These figures show that countrywide, inDrive.Outstation is the preferred ride-hailing service for intercity rides during these times,” says Pratip Mazumder, India Country Manager, inDrive.

Popular routes during festival season

This year too, orders at inDrive.Outstation have surged during the festive season. The rides are especially notable along specific routes. Orders for trips from Mumbai to Pune rose by 86%, the trips from Lucknow to Kanpur rose by 81%, while trips from Chandigarh to Delhi rose by 105%, and from Delhi – Meerut by 122%, with the reverse trip of Meerut to Delhi going up by a staggering 213%.

“Despite the massive surge in demand during festival periods, we ensure our users get comfortable outstation rides between cities at the fare of their choice with inDrive.Outstation,” adds Pratip.

With inDrive.Outstation, users get to choose their pickup location, price and driver, and take outstation rides at their convenience.

Three reasons that make inDrive.Outstation stand out:

Any Route – The distance of the intercity trip doesn’t matter. inDrive.Outstation operates in any region of the country. In order to book an intercity ride, the user just needs to have a device with Internet access. It can be a PC, laptop, tablet, or phone. inDrive.Outstation works 24×7/365.

Excellent Service – The inDrive.Outstation team is constantly working to improve their global IT platform. They regularly update their service and add new features to it. Users can take part in its development too. They can connect with the team and highlight what is missing in the platform.

Experienced Drivers – inDrive.Outstation always cares about the safety and comfort of the users. Their drivers undergo strict selection before being added to the inDrive platform. Drivers who don’t meet the high standards to travel intercity are not allowed in the platform. When it comes to taking care of users, inDrive.Outstation team makes no compromises.

About inDrive

inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 240 million times, and was the second most downloaded mobility app in 2022 and 2023. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation, freight delivery, task assistance and courier delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A arm.

inDrive operates in 779 cities in 46 countries. Driven by its mission of challenging social injustice, the company is committed to having a positive impact on the lives of one billion people by 2030. It pursues this goal both through its core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision, its non-profit arm. inVision’s community empowerment programs help to advance education, sports, arts and sciences, gender equality and other vital initiatives.

For more information, visit www.inDrive.com

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RRCA Accounts Management, Inc. Reports Ransomware Attack and Data Breach

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STERLING, Ill., Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —

WHAT HAPPENED?

RRCA Accounts Management, Inc. (“RRCA”), a full-service collection agency, experienced a security incident from a ransomware attack from the Play threat actors on June 6, 2024, and immediately stopped the intrusion on June 7, 2024. A cybercriminal illegally attacked a limited part of our systems without permission. We then immediately hired expert third parties to commence a forensic investigation of the security incident. The initial investigation showed that the majority records accessed were not personal information. However, we learned through ongoing forensic investigatory efforts that there was a full release of our clients’ customers’ personal information on August 20, 2024, leading to this notification. We then did a thorough investigation to identify those consumers whose information was impacted.

WHAT INFORMATION WAS INVOLVED?

RRCA informed its clients, health care providers or other business companies for which data is collected regarding outstanding payments, about this event and what customer personal information may have been accessed. The personal information that may have been accessed by a third party includes contact information (such as name, address, date of birth, phone number and email) and one or more of the following:

Social security number or taxpayer IDDriver’s license numberPassport numberTelephone numberHealth insurance informationHealth data, such as medical record numbers and places of treatment and doctorsHealth payment information such as billing and insurance claims and payment card and account numbersUsername or IP addressPotentially some demographic information, such as gender, religious views or race

The data that was accessed was not the same for each person and does not always include all the above data elements.

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

RRCA has been diligently working with law enforcement and forensic investigators to conduct a thorough review of the potentially affected data. RRCA has implemented additional organizational, technical and administrative security measures to prevent the reoccurrence of such a breach and to protect the privacy of its clients.

WHAT CAN CONSUMERS IMPACTED DO?

RRCA is sending out notifications to impacted customers of its clients so that action can be taken which will assist to minimize or eliminate potential harm. It is strongly advised that preventive measures be taken to help prevent and detect any misuse of information.

To help protect affected individuals, RRCA has retained CyEx, a specialist in identity theft prevention to provide credit monitoring services and identity theft services, free of charge. 

As a first step, it is recommended to monitor financial and health accounts for any unauthorized activity and promptly contacting the appropriate financial institution or health insurance carrier if detected.

To further protect from the possibility of identity theft, it is also recommended that fraud alerts are placed with each of the three credit bureaus – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. A fraud alert will make it harder for a new credit account to be opened, as the business must verify identity before it issues new credit. A fraud alert should not stop the use of existing credit cards or other accounts, but it may slow down the ability to get new credit. An initial fraud alert is valid for ninety (90) days. To place a fraud alert on credit reports, contact one of the three major credit reporting agencies at the appropriate number listed below or via their website. One agency will notify the other two on your behalf. Letters will then be sent from the agencies with instructions on how to obtain a free copy of the credit report from each.

Equifax (888) 766-0008 or www.fraudalert.equifax.comExperian (888) 397-3742 or www.experian.comTransUnion (800) 680-7289 or www.transunion.com

Even if no suspicious activity is detected on the initial credit reports, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommends checking credit reports periodically. Checking credit reports periodically can help spot a problem and address it quickly.

WHO TO CALL OR CONTACT WITH QUESTIONS?

If there are further questions or concerns, please contact the RRCA Accounts Management Team at this special telephone number 1-855-277-4799, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Eastern Time, except holidays.

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