Far from the reflectors of global strategies and tensions, the small South-East Asian island country…
01 Apr 2021
With a population that is 70% ethnically Malayan, Brunei has been under the influence of…
01 Apr 2021
A small Catholic population. The seven pastoral priorities. Living under Sharia Law. Cardinal Cornelius Sim,…
01 Apr 2021
Seven years have passed and the real reasons for the introduction of the most severe…
01 Apr 2021
March 2021 will mark the tenth anniversary of the Syrian war. The bulk of the…
01 Mar 2021
The definition of civil war has never quite applied in the case of Syria. Ever…
01 Mar 2021
The Russians are the ones who, having taken a direct military role alongside Damascus in…
01 Mar 2021
On 6 March 2011, a group of teenagers wrote anti-government graffiti on a school wall…
01 Mar 2021
The Black Sea, besides being a transit zone for oil, is rich in energy deposits…
01 Feb 2021
A further crucial element in the balance of power in the Black Sea is that…
01 Feb 2021
The Black Sea is situated in the centre of the vast geographical area that runs…
01 Feb 2021
It was the conflict that broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008 that challenged…
01 Feb 2021
Crisis in the economy, public health and the environment. Six countries will go to the…
01 Jan 2021
How to confront the consequences of Covid-19 as they affect the countries of Asia. China…
01 Jan 2021
Clouds appear on the horizon in Sahel and forthcoming elections in several parts of the…
01 Jan 2021
Socio-economic tensions rise but the COVID Pandemic buys time for governments under pressure. Tension between…
01 Jan 2021
It is not easy to juggle the various interests that revolve around the GGW, and…
01 Dec 2020
The Great Green Wall’s goal is clear: to regenerate 100 million hectares of degraded land…
01 Dec 2020
From a green wall of trees to a mosaic of ecosystems. From the moment it…
01 Dec 2020
Any ecological rehabilitation of a territory must consider several factors, not the least of which…
01 Dec 2020
Today, there are 40,000 inhabitants in Tivaouane, 100 km north-east of Dakar, the holy city…
01 Nov 2020
More than 90% of the population of Senegal, an officially secular country, profess the Islamic…
01 Nov 2020
On one of the Atlantic beaches of Yoff, rises the Great Layene Mosque-Mausoleum. The low…
01 Nov 2020
Touba, the holy city of the Muridiyya Brotherhood, situated in the centre of the country,…
01 Nov 2020
Clearly, Great Britain has played a fundamental role in the emergence of modern Oman, considering…
01 Oct 2020
Oman is distinctive in the Persian Gulf context because it has been traditionally ruled by…
01 Oct 2020
The Sultanate of Oman is in the Middle East, on the south-eastern end of the…
01 Oct 2020
During its history, Oman has been known by different names. Arab tribes, who emigrated from…
01 Oct 2020
China and Russia’s advances have prompted the United States to bolster its own efforts in…
01 Sep 2020
Russia, which in Soviet times pioneered space exploration in 1957 with the launch of the…
01 Sep 2020
Space has witnessed an intensifying level of economic-strategic activity as related to defense, protecting territory…
01 Sep 2020
The logic used by super powers in space is not an exclusively competitive one. In…
01 Sep 2020
The Buganda are a bantu speaking ethnic group found in Uganda. They are a very…
01 Aug 2020
Birth in Buganda is very important because it is the yard stick that measures a…
01 Aug 2020
The Bulgarian demographic crisis is the one that is most critical due to the speed…
01 Jul 2020
The Balkans and central Eastern Europe are experiencing the most serious and sudden drop in…
01 Jul 2020
Serbian demography is also following the trend of the other surrounding countries, registering a considerable…
01 Jul 2020
Romania, with its 19.6 million inhabitants, is going through a shocking demographic depopulation crisis. If…
01 Jul 2020
A country of striking and changing landscapes, extremes of climate and environment, in tourism, Mongolia…
01 Jun 2020
The advisability, possibility and feasibility of the elections for the new Mongolian parliament, the single…
01 Jun 2020
The question present in the recent history of Mongolia is whether the potential of the…
01 Jun 2020
The Moldovan political situation is extremely complicated. It reflects the clashes between the West and…
01 May 2020
The secessionist threat of the Gagauza community, which developed simultaneously with that of Transnistria, was…
01 May 2020
Geographically located on the very outskirts of southeastern Europe, Moldova is a small state nestled…
01 May 2020
From an economic point of view, Moldova is considered one of the poorest countries in…
01 May 2020
The strong demographic growth is a main driver of the decimation of the African wildlife.…
01 Apr 2020
The latest ‘Peace’ plan, the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ by US President Donald Trump…
01 Mar 2020
Jordan is a country marked by ‘artificial’ borders, drawn on a map in the wake…
01 Mar 2020
Inevitably, the Jordanian government - and the political arrangement, which has taken decades to craft…
01 Mar 2020
In this new re-establishment of international balances in which Asia is acting as the leader,…
01 Feb 2020
In ancient times, the Atlantic Ocean was believed to be a mysterious extent of water…
01 Feb 2020
The Pacific, almost twice as big as the Atlantic, with an area of 161 million…
01 Feb 2020
Besides having always been that part of the world where the most of commercial interchange…
01 Feb 2020
The region has acquired a key role in the drugs trade, becoming the major platform…
01 Dec 2019
A large part of the drugs coming from Latin America and Asia is controlled and…
01 Dec 2019
Ever since it won the first democratic elections, held in November 1989 and supervised by…
01 Nov 2019
The structure of the economy of Namibia reflects the contradictions that are typical of all…
01 Nov 2019
With only 2.6 million inhabitants and an area of 824,292 square kilometres, Namibia presents a…
01 Nov 2019
The SWAPO movement succeeded in bringing on board the different ethnic groups, even co-opting some…
01 Nov 2019
The defense of the environment and its peoples. New ministries for the Christian communities. The…
01 Oct 2019
There has never been a Kurdish State. But, there has been and still exists a…
01 Sep 2019
There has been a tendency on the side of the mainstream media to describe this…
01 Sep 2019
As the Ba’ath increasingly dominated the State, the Communists faced greater restrictions on their activities.…
01 Sep 2019
Iraq, the country established on the land of the Assyrians and Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia,…
01 Sep 2019
The maras are characterized by their particular ritualism, their violent initiation rites and the tattoos…
01 Aug 2019
The phenomenon of organized crime is one of the plagues that most affects both the…
01 Aug 2019
El Salvador is one of the smallest countries in size of Central America, given that…
01 Aug 2019
In the general elections last February, Nayb Bukele established himself as the new President of…
01 Aug 2019
They live today almost the way they could have lived one or two hundred years…
01 Jul 2019
Travelling around the Gumuz region we did not see specific place for worship. Of course…
01 Jul 2019
Changes go very fast. There are many agents responsible for these changes. The first is…
01 Jul 2019
We have travelled for 500 kms in northwest Addis Ababa. First, it was along the…
01 Jul 2019
The 13 May 2019 elections in the Philippines have been correctly seen most of all…
01 Jun 2019
The tension between the presidency and the ecclesial hierarchy has considerably affected baptised Filipinos. The…
01 Jun 2019
But who is Rodrigo Duterte? A person with a judgemental mentality, partly due to his…
01 Jun 2019
With a Catholic population of over 80% of its 100 million inhabitants, the Philippines has…
01 Jun 2019
Interregional migration, or the movement of people between geographic sub regions, is also a key…
01 May 2019
African bishops are aware that, when there is a massive movement of people, the countries…
01 May 2019
Globally, in 2017, there were around 258 million international migrants, approximately 3.4% of the world…
01 May 2019
African migration patterns do not happen in a vacuum. Rather, they are situated within major…
01 May 2019
If it is true that the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was shaped by…
01 Apr 2019
From its very foundation, Debre Libanos grew in prestige and power until it surpassed all…
01 Apr 2019
Among the many Ethiopian monasteries Debre Damo deserves to be mentioned first. Not because it…
01 Apr 2019
If we mention the monastery of Hayk (or Hayq) among the three chosen for this…
01 Apr 2019
The cancellation of the effective reforms imposed during the decade in which the social-democrat government…
01 Mar 2019
The country has always been at the centre of tensions and troubles, provoking a sequence…
01 Mar 2019
It was the Maya who, long ago, inhabited those territories that were later colonised by…
01 Mar 2019
In December 2006, thanks to the support of the international community, a new truce was…
01 Mar 2019
It is now almost five years since the coup d’état that took place in…
01 Feb 2019
Bangkok seems to be a champion of futuristic architecture but its lights simply overwhelm without…
01 Feb 2019
Thailand is now witnessing the disappearance of its myth as a 'Teflon Country', unmoved by…
01 Feb 2019
The nation, the monarchy and Buddhism are the pillars commonly attributed to the Thai identity.…
01 Feb 2019
The Limpopo River Basin is a fragile environment threatened by the combined pressure, of climate…
01 Jan 2019
The Zambezi River is one of Africa’s main energy assets and could become as well…
01 Jan 2019
The Senegal River is a main source of life and prosperity for three West-African countries.…
01 Jan 2019
The Niger River is the main source of life of large parts of West Africa.…
01 Jan 2019
Climate change is disrupting our world and the temperature has risen one degree centigrade and it will not go back. We have reached a point…
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In the beginning of the world the king called the people together to be given their tasks. He sent out messengers for them. He sent the…
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Myanmar’s democratic transition took an unexpected turn in the early morning of Monday, February 1, 2021, when Senior General Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar’s military (known…
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