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
In the new geopolitical context that is developing worldwide, Africa is increasingly seen as a…
01 Dec 2018
Over the years, President Putin has attentively observed the political, economic and military strategy of…
01 Dec 2018
It is a fact that Libya is of fundamental importance for the Russian Federation since…
01 Dec 2018
Moscow began to take its first steps in the African context during the “Soviet period”. Since…
01 Dec 2018
In the context of the changes in power relations on the Asian continent, the movements…
01 Nov 2018
The collapse of the Soviet Union has characterized the birth of new and important geopolitical…
01 Nov 2018
The new centrality and strategic importance assumed by the Indian Ocean have unquestionably created competition…
01 Nov 2018
China may certainly be described as the more relevant protagonist in this change, finding itself…
01 Nov 2018
Negative impacts of deforestation require proactive interventions in order to reverse the trend. African governments…
01 Oct 2018
The most common pressures causing deforestation and severe forest degradation are agriculture, unsustainable forest management,…
01 Oct 2018
In Africa, forests play a vital role in providing goods and services to people and…
01 Oct 2018
Man is aware that he did not create nature. The earth, with all it contains,…
01 Oct 2018
Today, Bangladesh is a country in tumultuous growth, afflicted by many problems that for the…
01 Sep 2018
Ashulia and the nearby districts of Savar, Tongi and Gazipur on the edge of the…
01 Sep 2018
The population of Bangladesh is rapidly approaching 170 million, depending on an area of 147,570…
01 Sep 2018
Geography, demography, history, faith and politics are inextricably intertwined in determining the reality known as…
01 Sep 2018
After the beginning of the crisis in Mali in 2012, external powers have increased the…
01 Aug 2018
If we analyse the actual reality of the continent from a security point of view…
01 Aug 2018
Apparently, the US government’s discretion on its military initiatives in Africa is due to two…
01 Aug 2018
According to Feldstein, an analysis of the African situation leads to the conclusion that the…
01 Aug 2018
Nearly all major religions of the world were born in Asia. Some characteristics of Asian…
01 Jul 2018
The Tibetan Buddhist leader Dalai Lama remembers a discussion he had with Thomas Merton on…
01 Jul 2018
Chinese spiritual outlook made Confucius remind his people of their own inherited ethical convictions. Ethical…
01 Jul 2018
Undoubtedly, nonviolence remains at the heart of Asian spiritual tradition. It is not that Asians…
01 Jul 2018
The mingling of drug trafficking and terrorist/guerrilla organisations also involves Latin America which, as is…
01 Jun 2018
Among the groups belonging to the radical Islamic galaxy, a fundamentally important role was played…
01 Jun 2018
Drug trafficking is a global business. It is finding its way ever more perniciously into…
01 Jun 2018
The colossal and internationally important business of drug trafficking, now run by criminals of all…
01 Jun 2018
Kyrgyzstan merits to be called a 'geopolitical pivot'. It is a territory that, due to…
01 May 2018
Tajikistan, situated at the heart of central Asia, was a transit area crossed by caravan…
01 May 2018
The region of Central Asia, because of its geographic location, has always been considered a…
01 May 2018
Uzbekistan, like Kyrgyzstan is one of the five Central Asian republics created in 1991 after…
01 May 2018
The start of the year was characterised by an important series of events for the…
01 Apr 2018
On 11 October 2017, the Supreme Court of India deliberated that sexual relations with a…
01 Apr 2018
In the Hindu concept is taken up by its present proponents, connected to the political…
01 Apr 2018
The multi-souled India of today has denied none of its souls but struggles to embrace…
01 Apr 2018
Unlike the protests of the ‘Arab Spring’, moreover, the recent protests in Iran have a…
01 Mar 2018
Whatever tensions exist between Israel, the USA and Iran, they will play out in Syria…
01 Mar 2018
Iran does have a domestic and clandestine opposition, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The MEK combine…
01 Mar 2018
Nobody appears to have any clear plans for Syria. Indeed, the ignorance extends to the…
01 Mar 2018
In the course of his pontificate, Pope Francis has not ceased to fight against the…
01 Feb 2018
Twenty nine years have passed since the most famous wall in Europe ceased to divide…
01 Feb 2018
Walls are like an infection, made of bricks, nets and barbed wire that prevent the…
01 Feb 2018
The year 2016 was the year of anti-immigration walls, the militarisation of frontiers and a…
01 Feb 2018
The big winner in the Middle East is Russia. Thus, it will be Russia that…
01 Jan 2018
The West will always choose Turkey over the aspirations of the Kurds. This is one…
01 Jan 2018
The Kurds have become one of the key players of the Middle East. They have…
01 Jan 2018
The Kurds and their struggle have suffered because of geographical and cultural fragmentation first and,…
01 Jan 2018
The Indios peoples of Latin America have finally irrupted into history. They are present as…
01 Dec 2017
The indigenous peoples and their descendants in America and in the entire world are the…
01 Dec 2017
Since the 1960s, the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) has been promoting a new pastoral…
01 Dec 2017
The greatest contribution of the indigenous communities to the Churches and to society is their…
01 Dec 2017
Malawi is a country with over 10 tribes each with different cultural traditions and beliefs.…
01 Nov 2017
The Chewa people are the matrilineal society where married men are used to playing a…
01 Nov 2017
In the small Chewa village, death has come; the bam-owl has announced it by its…
01 Nov 2017
The initiation rites for girls take place in the village or a place close by…
01 Nov 2017
The need to be organised in groups in following their teachings is common to all…
01 Oct 2017
God is the direction (qibla) of the intention (niyya), the intention is the direction of…
01 Oct 2017
The ascetic movement (I-II/VII-VIII). – Sufism emerges in early Islamic times as an ascetic movement,…
01 Oct 2017
In the sea of divine manifestations (VI-VII/XII-XIII) – Starting from the III/IX century, many currents…
01 Oct 2017
As an archipelago of 17,000 islands, the geographical and cultural bridge between the Far East…
01 Sep 2017
The vast Indonesian archipelago shows all the signs of possibly becoming the next 'Asian miracle'. A…
01 Sep 2017
The economic future of this populous south-east Asian country is increasingly ambivalent. On the one hand…
01 Sep 2017
The catholic faith, originally brought by the Portuguese, went through Dutch persecution and through varying…
01 Sep 2017
Initiation into voodoo is an important time that unequivocally marks the life of a person.…
01 Aug 2017
The Outachi, an ethnic group of the south coast of Togo, practice voodoo, a traditional…
01 Aug 2017
The return to the home and resuming contact with family members takes place under the…
01 Aug 2017
The rite of erecting the Heviesso, for example, takes place at midnight on the day…
01 Aug 2017
Boys and girls meet at dance parties or at communal work or while tending domestic…
01 Jul 2017
“ Rocks or hills can never meet. Only our peoples can come together”. A Pökot…
01 Jul 2017
When a pregnant woman is about to deliver usually other women, most probably two, help…
01 Jul 2017
Sapana is a celebration undertaken by young men, around 20 years of age, to become…
01 Jul 2017
There were eight candidates but just one outsider who figured in the election campaign for…
01 Jun 2017
A colonial inheritance and a strong identifying factor, the Catholic religion has perhaps been the…
01 Jun 2017
At 500 Km from the coast of northern Australia, East Timor, though limited in extent,…
01 Jun 2017
On 20 May, the Democratic Republic of East Timor marked the fifteenth anniversary of its…
01 Jun 2017
The United Arab Emirates has been pursuing a very active foreign policy to combat political…
01 May 2017
Until the 1930’s, and reaching a peak in 1929, pearl fishing brought considerable wealth to…
01 May 2017
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country in the southeastern part of the Arabian…
01 May 2017
The UAE is one of the youngest nations in the Middle East. It has an…
01 May 2017
I arrived among the Nuer in November 2005. It was my first mission assignment. I had expectantly waited for that moment throughout many years of…
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The animals were lonely. They stood in the forest talking to one another, wondering how they could each get a wife to keep them company and…
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Human society, of which we are all a part, is facing an environmental catastrophe unprecedented in history. The planet is in dire condition and ecosystems that…
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