World Military Spending Increases For A Second Consecutive Year
According to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), world military expenditure rose for a second consecutive year to a total of $1686 billion in 2016. This is the first consecutive annual increase since 2011, when spending reached its peak of $1699 billion. The USA’s spending returns to growth; Saudi Arabia’s spending […]
Another Face Of The Migration Crisis In Africa
Nowhere do cities expand faster than in Asia and Africa. However, to develop them in a more sustainable and socially acceptable way, will be one of the greatest challenges for the implementation of the Sustainable Development goals (SDGs). During the last few decades, hundreds of millions of people have moved from their rural homes into […]
India: Sister Rose And The Rubber Cultivation
The introduction of rubber plantation by Sister Rose, in villages across the northeast of India, brought in progress to the lives of villagers. Residents not only improved their economic status but also ended their dependence on moneylenders who used to cheat them. “We would still have been poor, working for others if Sister Rose had […]
South Sudan: Bishop Kussala – “To Foster Reconciliation And Healing In Society”
The president of the Sudanese Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on leaders in South Sudan’s Bahr El Ghazal region to fight segregation and division, uniting to work for peace in the violence-ridden country. Achieving peace, said Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio, “demands of all of us that we act with real respect for human […]
India: A Newspaper By Street Kids
‘Balaknama’, a newspaper that highlights the problems faced by Indian street children, is also a tool to change their lives. Damayanti, 12, moves fast along the queue of cars waiting for the green light in one of the busiest streets near the New Delhi railway station. She sells copies of ‘Balaknama’, the voice of children, […]
Young Laity Engages In Transforming Asia
For more than ten years, Fondacio Asia, has helped young people to become leaders of projects and missions for the Church and the society, through formation programmes. Tugso, 27, comes from the mountain steppes of Mongolia. In 2014, she started an empowerment programme for women living in extreme poverty in rural areas. By making and […]
Africa: Children And The Mediterranean Migration Route
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 […]
Committed To A Just Peace In Syria
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 […]
Colombia: The Nasa – A Proud People
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 […]
Digitsation: A Chance For Africa
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 […]
