Anti-Christian persecution keeps growing: the danger is increasing especially in Africa. Never so intense as in the last three decades. More than 365 million Christians experience a high level of [...]
Understandably, it is emotionally painful to witness so many African brothers and sisters being brutally beaten and sold into slavery within present-day Libya. This is yet another important moment [...]
Perhaps the great problem of an open society is that few people want to live in an open society. It is difficult to come to a different conclusion in view of contemporary political reality: liberal [...]
Epiphanius, the monk, no longer gave himself peace: he set out on a journey; he travelled through Europe scrutinising every face. Nothing. There was no suitable face to represent Christ. [...]
D/. What was it like to work at the UN, based on your years in the Secretariat?
A/. It was both inspiring and humbling—inspiring because you get to help the community of 193 nations try to [...]
In the city in the morning hours
What happens in the city in the early hours of the morning, when the day begins?
Everything happens. Many get up, hurry to get ready to leave for work, wake [...]
For example, the change brought about by the Pope to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, as can be seen in a letter full of Parousia on the task of the body and of the ecclesiastics involved [...]
In its annual Global terrorism index, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP, a global think tank based in Sydney) reports that the Sahel region now accounts for almost half of all terrorism [...]
UNESCO's designation of the Mur-Drave-Danube Biosphere Reserve represents a historic step in the construction of a new era for people and nature, at a time when the world is facing a climate [...]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 69, Vatican Secretary of State, is the Pope's closest collaborator and heads the Holy See's diplomacy. It is clear that he has spoken about this with Francis, after [...]