2021 REPORT —
Refugees: Centro Astalli refugee service, increased requests for food and shelter due to pandemic. Italians seeking assistance for the first time
di Patrizia CaiffaOver the year 2020, Jesuit refugee service “Centro Astalli” supported over 17,000 people across its eight local branches, 10,000 of…
DEFORESTATION —
Monoculture plantations where forests are burning, territories devastated: native peoples’ “resistance” in the wake of Laudato Si
di Bruno Desidera*Uncontrolled deforestation, land devastation, forest fires. To combat the damaging effects of monoculture, the mobilisation of the local community in…
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS —
Covid-19 and consecrated life. Fr. Arturo Sosa (Jesuits): “Democracy could become a victim of the pandemic”
di Riccardo Benotti“In many nations the pandemic has become a pretext to exacerbate governments’ authoritarian attitudes and halt the democratic nature of…
LATIN AMERICA —
Summer of violence grips Colombia, amidst drug-trafficking, Covid-19 and court cases
di Bruno DesideraA summer of violence not seen in 15 years, and at the same moment when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out…
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