Sources spoke to AsiaNews confirming the growing crisis following Houthi advance on the country's western coast. Electricity and basic necessities are being rationed amid a security emergency. The Missionaries of Charity continue their work in the north. Riyadh has shut down the East-West pipeline after it was attacked.
The 27-year-old Chinese man tells the story of his conversion and his entry into the Catholic Church. Educated in atheism, as a university student he decides to seek meaning in an empty life. Henry De Lubac's reading of “Catholicism” and the testimony of John Paul II and Benedict XVI in the face of modernity are fundamental.
The ICT Guild Organization report reveals that only 12% of technology companies have benefited from business opportunities. The lockdown resulted in an increase in demand, but the country's infrastructure network was inadequate. 38% of the companies have ceased all activities, 40% have operated at half regime.
A UN study published yesterday says that the poverty rate has doubled in one year; the number of people at risk of extreme poverty has tripled. Yesterday, in the space of one day, there were 589 new infections from Covid-19 and two deaths. The total number of positive cases is 10347. People prefer to buy bread and not surgical masks. The "In aid of devastated Beirut" campaign continues.
Saudi Arabia does not intend to follow the decision recently taken by the United Arab Emirates. Respect for "international agreements" and the two-state solution are a "precondition" for official diplomatic relations with Israel. New pressure on Riyadh from the White House.
Contrary to what some journalists say, the last five episcopal appointments have more to do more with internal issues in their respective dioceses or with relations to the local government. Fr Sergio Ticozzi, PIME missionary and a China expert, provides some insight.
"The pandemic is a crisis and we emerge from a crisis better or worse", above all we will not emerge without focusing on that preferential option for the poor which "is not a political option", but "the centre of the Gospel". "We can nurture an economy of integral development of the poor and not of welfare. An economy that does not resort to remedies that actually poison society, such as profit dissociated from the creation of decent jobs. This type of profit is dissociated from the real economy, the one that should benefit ordinary people".
Many judge the sentence - which does not condemn Hezbollah and the Syrian government - ridiculous; for others it is the result of a political agreement. The village of Haruf, homeland of Salim Ayash, one of the condemned, celebrates him as a "son of the resistance". Tripoli's Sunnis remain calm. Saad Hariri accepts "what emerged from the Court, though it falls short of expectations".
Card Raï writes that the nation’s very existence in this period of political and geographical changes is in danger. The "Switzerland of the East" and the conflicts that afflict the nation and the region. The UN and the international community must solve the problem of Palestinian and Syrian refugees.
A surprising verdict is issued after 15 years. For the usual “conspiracists,” the Tribunal’s decision must be due to some deal between Iran and the United States, with France as mediator, to get Lebanon out of its morass. Sunni protesters from Tripoli and Sidon were preparing to invade Beirut. Groups of Christians are set to march on Baabda. In the end, the Tribunal found two men guilty – one, Mostafa Badreddine, is dead; the other, Salim Ayyash, is nowhere to be found.
The official signing is set in three weeks in Washington. Meanwhile, direct telephone services between the UAE and Israel have begun; the international community approves, except for Iran and Turkey. For Bernard Sabella, Israel’s pledge to suspend its annexation plan raises questions. Palestinians need a strong and united leadership to re-establish relations with Arab countries.
The historical heart of Beirut was destroyed in the port explosions, and there is the risk of the destruction of the cultural heritage. The devastated parts are relics of the Ottoman tradition and of the first contact with the French West. The campaign of the Ministry of Archaeological Heritage together with Unesco. But there are jackals who are taking advantage of the desperation of the inhabitants. Temporary homes are being prepared for the 300,000 homeless. "It will take years" to rebuild. Our "In aid of devastated Beirut" campaign.
Citizenship, the situation in the Nineveh plain and the Christians affected by the explosions in Lebanon at the center of the meeting between the Prime Minister and the Chaldean patriarch. For the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, the reconstruction of houses and employment are the priorities. Listen to the voice of the young people demonstrating. Al-Kazemi's affection for Pope Francis.
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