#Violence

New Caledonia, Christian churches’ plea for peace: “The island closest to paradise has become the island closest to hell”

“The island closest to paradise has become the island closest to hell.” Speaking at Pentecost Mass, Monsignor Michel-Marie Calvet, Catholic…

PM Fico attacked: resurgence of political violence. Russia-China threat confirmed

The attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Fico has brought to the fore the problem of a highly polarised and…

UK: Caritas Westminster launches “Safe in Faith” project, providing prevention and help against domestic violence

Eight March: Austria, Tödtling-Musenbichler (Caritas President) calls for better protection against violence against women

Yulia Navalnaya: “Putin must answer for everything he has done to my husband and to Russia”

Addressing the European Parliament, the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was killed while imprisoned in Siberia, remembered her…

Burkina Faso in mourning: 15 people massacred in a church. The military junta looks to Russia

Burkina Faso, an African country afflicted by putsches, Putinism and Islamist violence, has suffered yet another attack, this time on…

Alexei Navalny: his wife Yulia takes the baton. “I have no right to give up”. And she accuses Putin

EU: EU Commission and Borrell, “Female Genital Mutilation is a violation of human rights and a form of violence against women”. Towards a European law

A ‘Narco-State’ with devastating consequences. The voice of the missionaries: drug abuse on the rise and young people lured by easy money

Every day, small planes take off from hundreds of small airstrips (as many as 440, according to a recent investigation…

Ecuador: a country ‘contaminated’ by drug trafficking, caught up in a network of illicit trade, money laundering, prison control and political constraints

Why is it that one of the smallest and once relatively peaceful countries in Latin America is now comparable to…

Ecuador plagued by violence and drug trafficking. But some are sowing seeds of hope

Father Marcelo Farfán is the Salesian Inspector in this South American country. His description of the situation is dramatic: “The…