East Asia

South Korean President Moon Jae-in wants to organise the 2030 FIFA World Cup jointly with North Korea. Former US basketball star Denis Rodman, whose is admired by Trump and Kim Jong-un, travels to Pyongyang today to mediate between the two. North Korean leader is said to be ready to strike at US territory. US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says North Korea poses the most dangerous threat to the world.

A joint statement signed between Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Isabel Saint Malo. Beijing's diplomatic war in the throes of economic favors. Taiwan, the only democracy in the Chinese world, is branded as "a rebellious island".

The decision of the Chinese authorities was taken following the unauthorized climb by Polish climber Janusz Adamsky. However, the decision will affect the 2022 Winter Olympics as well as business. An expedition from Ladakh (India) plants Tibetan flag and the effigy of the Dalai Lama to arouse the Chinese reaction. While on the economic side, China's stated goal is to increase the number of skiers in Tibet from the current 5 to 300 million over the space of 15 years through the construction of 800 establishments and hundreds of hotels

In pre-modern China, the emperor was the supreme leader in Confucianism. With a divine mandate, he controlled religions in an authoritarian manner. Today’s China controls institutions and believers, but has replaced the divine with Marxist theory.

"The Christian community, even with all human limits, can become a reflection of the communion of the Trinity, of its goodness and beauty. But this necessarily goes through the experience of God's mercy, of His forgiveness. " Itala Mela proclaimed Blessed yesterday, in La Spezia.

Francis visits Italian president. "Generating and accompanying processes that give rise to new opportunities for dignified employment". "Stable employment, along with a political commitment to the family, is the first and most important place for the formation of intra-personal relations and the conditions for genuine sustainable development."

The Jesuit George Gerald Martinson died last May 31. His mission in Asia using the media to teach English, music, Jesuit history in China, Pope Francis.

They live together with families, interrogating them on their ideological positions and following them in daily activities. Restaurants forced to remain open. Uighur officials are required to sign a letter in which they promise not to fast and pray, and to check family and neighbors. Beijing argues that they are measures for stability, but analysts say it is the cause of violence in the majority Muslim region. Courtesy of Radio Free Asia.

The pontiff met with the participants to the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, focused on ‘The role of women in education towards universal fraternity”. For Francis, women play an "inestimable" role in education and " offer an important input in dialogue, with their capacity for listening, acceptance, and opening up generously to others."

He had been arrested a month earlier for a brawl. The family took pictures of the lifeless body full of bruises and blood. Attempts to cover up with false autopsies. After the denunciation, the village of Luo is controlled by armed men and the family and lawyers lost their jobs.

This would be the first abdication in 200 years. About half of Japan’s 124 Japanese monarchs gave up the throne during the 27 centuries of the world’s oldest monarchy. The law applies only to Akihito and expressly states that he will be replaced by his eldest son, Naruhito, 58. The emperor had expressed his wish to leave in a speech broadcast in August 2016.

Although not yet formalised, the commitment was undertaken at a UN oceans summit that ended yesterday. For Card Turkson, an ecological conversion is needed as Pope Francis indicated when he said that “Care for our common home [. . .] is and will always be a moral imperative.”