Religion, philosophy, legends, imperial politics, and folklore – these are…
01 Jan 2023, Culture January 2023
In 2023, Asia will be a continent of global uncertainties,…
01 Jan 2023, News January 2023
Protests in Iran continue but, despite the brutal repression by…
01 Nov 2022, News November 2022
The latest census of India, that of 2011, indicates that…
01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022
Unlike most countries with a medium or high level of…
01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022
With an evident crisis in the availability of widely distributed…
01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022
A country like India that aspires, at least in Asia,…
01 Sep 2022, Dossier September 2022
The folk art of phulkari, that represents the tradition and…
01 Jun 2022, Culture June 2022
On May 9, the Philippines will be the scene of…
01 May 2022, Dossier May 2022
In office since June 30, 2016, despite the criticisms, Duterte…
01 May 2022, Dossier May 2022
Once again, on May 9, the Filipinos will also bring…
01 May 2022, Dossier May 2022
The motto of the 500th anniversary year was ‘Missio ad…
01 May 2022, Dossier May 2022
The country is extremely rich in water resources and minerals.…
01 Jan 2022, Dossier January 2022
Twenty-five years have passed since a small group of Comboni…
01 Jan 2022, Churches January 2022
Azerbaijan is a Caucasian republic located in the south-east, straddling…
01 Jan 2022, Dossier January 2022
In the autumn of 2020, the conflict between Armenia and…
01 Jan 2022, Dossier January 2022
In 1917, ownership of the region of Karabakh was claimed…
01 Jan 2022, Dossier January 2022
The life of the Filipino villages and parishes is built…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
The Azerbaijan art of weaving is unique: it is an…
01 Dec 2021, Culture December 2021
Some Franciscan Sisters have succeeded in combining tradition and innovation.…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
Right in the middle of Eurasia, in that mass of…
01 Sep 2021, Dossier September 2021
Kazakhstan achieved independence in December 1991 at a time when…
01 Sep 2021, Dossier September 2021
Besides lithium, another mineral occupies a central role for its…
01 Sep 2021, News September 2021
The modernisation of the state forms part of the ‘Kazakhstan 2030 Plan’ launched by Nazarbayev in 1997 with the aim of transforming and developing the country, and now continued by his successor. The plan is based…
For Kazakhstan, the year 2019 may be remembered as a time of political change. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, having led the country for almost three decades, resigned as President, though retaining ample powers in accordance with a…
In the Bay of Manila, north of the Philippine capital, it is already possible to see what awaits the inhabitants of the coastal regions of the world: entire areas being swallowed up by the sea.…
With a population that is 70% ethnically Malayan, Brunei has been under the influence of a much more rigid version of Islam as compared with bordering Malaysia and neighbouring Indonesia. The situation leaves little room for…
Far from the reflectors of global strategies and tensions, the small South-East Asian island country seems to be suspended in a reality of wellbeing and peace. But it is really living through profound contradictions and…
Fifty years in India alongside the lepers. Curing their wounds but also rejoicing with each one for new found life. This is the story of Sister Bertilla Capra, 82, an Italian Consolata Missionary. It was…
To save biodiversity, we must save human diversity. Many Indigenous languages are 'dying out'. What is not often discussed, however, is the fact that the languages…
Read moreOn the heights of a remote village at the bottom of a valley lived a melancholic girl who had not known her parents, who had died…
Read moreThe current Iranian Revolution is entering its fourth month, with people all over Iran protesting. Iran’s Gen Z is leading the charge as the loudest voice…
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