#War

Myanmar. Msgr. Kung (Hakha): “No decorations and no Christmas carols. This Christmas will be celebrated in silence”

Brutal executions, people being arrested and on the run, families torn apart, churches and places of worship attacked and desecrated.…

EU Parliament: plenary meeting to discuss Russian military threat to Ukraine. Legal proposal to stop gender-based cyber-violence

“Boomerang effect and aberration”: the Poland-Belarus wall in the eyes of host communities

“Africa is exemplary in its reception of refugees despite extreme poverty. It’s the continent that builds refugee camps instead of…

Wars of the poor and wars of the rich: can this future scenario be avoided?

The UN Secretary-General urges to “choose peace as the only option to repair our broken world”. Before it is too…

Ornella Spagnolello, medical doctor in Kabul: “We belong here, despite our fears.”

The 32-year-old physician, originally from Sicily, is working in Afghanistan with Emergency, after having been in Sudan, Congo, and with…

Ireland: Mgr. Martin (Bishops’ President) decries “amnesty” decided in London for Troubles-related crimes. “Deep hurt, betrayal of trust”

War in Tigray: “Deadly silence broken only by children weeping”

Local sources report on the civil war in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia. Mass murders, rape, ethnic cleansing, looting…

Civil war in Myanmar: “It’s a slow-paced genocide”

Civil war is raging in Myanmar. People are fleeing in increasing numbers, with surging violence by the military. Women and…

Myanmar: Catholics fleeing. Catholic seminary volunteer killed in Loikaw

There is no one left in seven parishes in the diocese of Loikaw (Deemoso, Dongankha, Tananukwe, Donganrao, Domyalay, Kayantharya and…

Chaos in Chad, missionaries’ reports: “the situation has deteriorated. It always happens at the expense of the people”

President Idriss Déby Itno was killed by rebels. The military took over power and will retain it for 18 months…

Yemen: EU, 95 million euros’ humanitarian aid. Population threatened by war, Covid and famine