Recently, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) has approval of the ‘roll out’ of a vaccine against malaria made the news. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) had been working on finding an effective malaria vaccine for thirty years. Stage Three trials, the final stage, took five years and were completed in 2015. Pilot implementation in Africa began in 2019. …
Off the southern coast of Mozambique, there lies an uncontaminated paradise of six islands surrounded by the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. The union of land and sea has its own special magical alchemy. The habitat is uncontaminated, a place where land and ocean embrace according to the cycle of tides or the blowing …
A Comboni Missionary from Uganda, Father Kanyike Edward, explains the meaning of the rites of passage in Africa culture. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, I observed a curious detail during funeral rites: those who lift the coffin in order to carry it to the graveyard do it three times. They lift it and put …
The Nicaraguan bishops’ conference has just called on citizens to act freely and to vote according to their conscience as the country prepares for a general election this month. Elections in Nicaragua for president and members of the National Assembly, as well as members of the Central American Parliament, will be held Nov. 7. The …
Nicaragua: Catholic Bishops “to vote according to your own conscience” Read More »
Pope Francis has approved a decree on the heroic virtues of the Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, who – inspired by the spirituality of St Charles de Foucauld – founded the Little Sisters of Jesus. She used to say: “I am never so close to God as when I am travelling”. Magdeleine Hutin (Little Sister …
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The spirit of Ethiopian Christianity is expressed not only in works of great architectural merit and originality, but in a wide range of artistic creations: in wall paintings – together with architecture, they represent the most relevant aspect of the artistic richness of Ethiopia -, illuminated manuscripts, processional crosses, books of benedictions, and in liturgical …
Let the students march and speak, Let the youth protest and cry, Let the day of justice roll on. May they change the world with truth and confound the lie. The world is heating, we are cooking ourselves to death, We are burning coal and oil and everything we can, We are the arsonists of …
The fight against climate change is now on the agendas of all major global political players. The objective of the European Union is to play a decisive role in the fight to save the planet through its internal and foreign politics. Will the EU be able to act as a model on a global level? …
COP 26 – The EU and the Fight against Climate Change Read More »
The great climate migration has already begun. The number of people fleeing their birth country is expected to grow over the next thirty years, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Experts warn: governments and the international community must act now. By 2050, at least 216 million people could be forced from their homes by the impacts of …
Climate Change is a perilous turning point in human history. We are beginning to acknowledge this but are still far from achieving the level and intensity of economic change required to meet the threat. The kind of planned, co-ordinated, radical action by governments that is needed is just not happening. As Greta Thunberg put it …
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