Today is the European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Terrorism (Giornata europea in ricordo delle vittime del terrorismo). It was chosen on March 11th in memory of the jihadist terrorist attacks unleashed on four trains in Madrid in 2004, which caused the death of 192 people and the wounding of over two thousand.…
“Democracy atrophies itself, becomes a nominalism, a formality, loses representativeness, becomes disincarnated because it leaves the people out in their daily struggle for dignity, in the construction of their destiny” (Pope Francis). How to counteract this decadence? Mario Toso – bishop of Faenza-Modigliana, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Magnificent Rector…
Since 11 September 2001, particularly in the last 15 years, a large part of the world population has been involved in a spiral of violence and reduction of personal freedom. The sociological causes of this are complex, but in summary it can be said that the need to overcome fear – whether real or induced…
In an operation that raised the alarm for the return of ISIS to the fore, the terrorist organization succeeded in carrying out its largest operation in years, not targeting civilians, but rather a prison that houses thousands of wanted terrorists On Thursday night, the terrorist organization ISIS launched an attack on Ghweran prison designated for…
Many people know the “pomegranate shipment” imported from Lebanon, which contained drugs and caused a great stir and prompted Saudi Arabia to ban Lebanon’s vegetables, but few know that this drug was Captagon. What is his secret and how did he turn Syria into a drug state? Since the start of the “pomegranate shipment” crisis,…
With the advent of winter, the lack of job opportunities, and the lack of aid, the humanitarian situation deteriorates in the camps for the displaced in northern Idlib (northwestern Syria), and the situation of poverty and unemployment is exacerbated, amid the spread of diseases, especially the Corona epidemic, and the decline in the performance of…
I Rohingya sono un gruppo etnico di fede islamica residente principalmente nello stato birmano a maggioranza buddhista di Rakhine, al confine con il Bangladesh. Non sono riconosciuti quale minoranza e il Myanmar non garantisce loro nemmeno i più basilari diritti di cittadinanza. Perseguitati e vittime di violenze e discriminazioni in patria e respinti dai Paesi…
On June 5, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen cut diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing Doha of supporting “terrorism”. The list of demands, relayed to Qatar can be summarised as being to “align itself with other Arabs and the Gulf, militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as in financial matters”.…
In San Francisco and Washington another shootout led to several deaths and injuries. The odds of you being shot dead in USA are far greater than of you being killed in a terrorist attack in Europe. More Americans were killed by firearms roughly every five hours than were killed by terrorists in an entire year.…
In recent years, Syria has come under the attack of anti-governmental conflict. The ongoing Syrian civil war has witnessed the most deadliest conflict in this Century. The clashes started in March 2011 in the southern city of Deraa. Nowadays, there are many different coalitions fighting on the ground: on one side, there is President Bashar…
