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Today's news: only 51.7% of South Koreans want to get married, 28.3% intend to have children 'with certainty'; Hanoi reports annual crop losses of three billion dollars, Mekong Delta in crisis;  Elections in India scheduled between 19 April and early June; The Israeli government instituted the annual national day of remembrance of the 'catastrophe' on 7 October; Russian President Putin re-elected with 87.17% of the vote. 


The victim, 31-year-old Pat Nibin Maxwell from Kerala, arrived in northern Israel just two months ago to work on a farm. He had a five-year-old daughter and his wife is expecting a second child. Two other Indian nationals were wounded. The Israeli embassy in Delhi extended its condolences to the victim’s family and slammed the "cowardly" attack that puts the spotlight back on the fate of migrant workers, the war’s "forgotten” victims.

| 05/03/2024
| ISRAEL – LEBANON – INDIA

Humanitarian organisations working in Israel join the call for a ceasefire. Stopping the fighting must ensure the safe distribution of aid and negotiations for the release of the hostages. The ultimate hope remains peace “in the land where our Lord Jesus Christ first took up his cross on our behalf.”

| 02/03/2024
| GAZA – ISRAEL

At least 112 people died and more than 760 were wounded in the UN aid convoy attack. Hamas and Israel blame each other; negotiations are at risk. For Fr Romanelli, people are dying under the bombs and widespread hunger every day; a ceasefire is needed because "the situation is really bad.” The Israeli army struck near the parish compound. Pope Francis expresses his support for the victims.

| 01/03/2024
| ISRAEL – PALESTINE

Today's news: Tokyo sends mini-drones and robot-snakes to one of the Fukushima reactors to prepare for the removal of highly radioactive waste; Israel aims to build new settlements in the West Bank, nearly 15 thousand housing units; Burmese junta hits a market in Rakhine State, at least 12 dead; In Russia, controls on mobile phones and apps increase.

| 01/03/2024
| ASIA TODAY

In an essay published by La Civiltà Cattolica, the Israeli Jesuit writes that the clashes over justice reform and the Gaza war brought to the streets by the families of the hostages mark the end of the Zionism born in the 19th century. A new synthesis is needed starting with Mizrahi, ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs, and Russian immigrants, to also develop a new way of seeing the Palestinians.

| 29/02/2024
| ISRAEL
by Fady Noun

Responding to an invitation from the women's branch of the Lebanese Order of the Antonines, Archbishop Paolo Borgia visited the school, located in an area dominated by Amal and scene of the fiercest clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah. The prelate conveyed Pope Francis’s closeness and prayers for peace.

| 28/02/2024
| LEBANON
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