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According to UNICEF estimates, more than 150 children have died crossing the Central Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy in the last four months. Yet, the true number of child casualties is almost certainly higher, given that many children on the move are unaccompanied, so their deaths often go unreported. Since the start of the […]

Endless war crimes and enormous human suffering: the people of Syria are in need of justice and peaceful support. Pax Christi International statement on the situation in Syria. Syria’s war has created the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Six years have passed since violent repression by the Assad regime turned what began as a

In Colombia, indigenous people are but a small 2% minority, subdivided into about a hundred peoples scattered throughout the entire country. One very important ethnic group among these is the Nasa people – compromise during the guerrilla war; the struggle for survival by defending their lands and their traditions. At present, the Nasa, which in

While in Africa mobile and smart phones are spreading and ingenious local adaptations are being developed, people in the industrialised nations are talking about the 4th industrial revolution, the large scale linking of digital and other systems. Where has digitisation reached in Africa? To what extent can it contribute to the economic and social development

In the world today, we see a great struggle between those who have deeply held beliefs about the value and dignity of the human person and those who do not. Most people treasure their own survival, life and dignity and their right to live in peace and prosperity in a society based on the rule

Through the interpretation of numerous opera repertories by African singers and authors, new paths are opening up on the stages of the world. It was during the inauguration ceremony of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014, in her elegant long red dress, that 38 year-old, Pumeza Matshikiza, nicknamed the ‘Callas of the townships‘, enchanted

The statistical yearbook of the Vatican registers an overall increase of 1.285 million of baptised Catholics in 2015, 49% of which live in the Americas. For the first time since 2000, there is a decline in the number of priests. In five years, Catholics in Asia, and especially in Africa, have grown from 15.5 per

The current four-year-old conflict in South Sudan has forced more than 2.3 million people to flee their homes. These war-affected populations also need psycho-social and spiritual help to mitigate the effects of war traumas and to enable them to move on with their lives. Fr. Yacob Solomon is a Comboni Missionary who has been evangelizing,

The children of Khan Sheikhoun were the first to suffer as the suspected nerve gas sarin, a deadly, fast-killing agent, caused the children to suffocate. As they tried to breath with damaged lungs, they started to foam at the mouth. Twenty died horrible deaths at the last count, and there may still be more. By

“The Crucified One invites us, as people of Sudan and South Sudan, to bear the sufferings of one another, to keep patient vigil together in the darkness, to listen even in death for life’s heartbeat… Our mission is not to roll the rock over the grave but, together with the One who goes before us,