President Prabowo Subianto, a 73-year-old former general, chose 48 ministers and 58 deputies, in line with the figures who were part of the cabinet of his predecessor, Joko Widodo. In his inaugural address yesterday, he promised poverty eradication and nonalignment in foreign policy. In the coming gioani the “red-white” administration will be engaged in a three-day retreat at a military academy.
The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index data released by UNDP finds that among the 1.1 billion people in the most extreme condition, 1 in 5 live in India. Rural areas have the most extreme situations. Fr. Nithiya Sagayam to AsiaNews: “Data that also challenge us as a Church. When will we see a true social synodality?"
Fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters, not to mention broader levels of kinship and friendship, make Žogorku Keneš - the local parliament that will be renewed in the 17 November vote - a big family. With almost forty parties that are all more or less pro-government.
The appeal on the day of the canonisation of St Joseph Allamano, founder of the Consolata missionaries also present in Asia. he is attributed with having healed a boy from the Yanomami people, seriously injured by a jaguar in the Amazon. ‘We support with our prayers and our help those who bring the luminous proclamation of the Gospel to every part of the earth’.
Bishop of Kalookan Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, gave a talk yesterday at the PIME Center in Milan on "Reconciliation, Peace and Mission: the Philippine Frontier." On today's World Missionary Day, we publish an extensive excerpts from his talk.
Tomorrow the handover of power between Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and the former general elected in February. Mixed reactions in Indonesian society, where many remember the heavy nationalist past. The biggest unknowns concern support for the new capital Nusantara and the economic management of the country. Meanwhile, the number of government ministers will increase from 30 to 46, raising concerns about government spending.
