Syria's Assad regime was considered the narco-state par excellence, but its fall has led to a spread of production on a regional scale. Constant demand and growing distribution fuel trafficking. Among the new production centres is Yemen, home to the Houthi rebels. Today, the heart of production takes place in small laboratories scattered throughout various countries.
The prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on a five-day pastoral visit to the country. In Narayanganj, he shared a meal with 600 displaced Christians. One of them said: ‘He testified that we can turn to God despite the difficulties.’ Meetings with the Rohingya community in Cox's Bazar, street children and leaders of other religions are planned.
Iraklij Kobakhidze defends the appeal to the Constitutional Court to outlaw the main opposition forces and says he wants to remain at the helm of the Georgian government until 2030, ‘hoping that the approaches of the European bureaucracy will change’. The National Movement's accusations: the current administration is increasingly transforming Georgian society into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Pope remembers the faithfl departed at the Angelus on all Souls Day. In the afternoon, Leo XIV visited the Verano cemetery in Rome: “Spiritually, I will also visit the graves of my loved ones”. Appeal against the massacres in the city of El Fasher in Sudan: ‘Unacceptable suffering for an already exhausted population: ceasefire and relief through humanitarian corridors’.
In the Archdiocese of Verapoly, the Catholic community is preparing for the beatification of the nun who founded the first Indian Carmelite congregation, combining contemplative life with service to her brothers and sisters. Cardinal Sebastian Francis, who will preside over the ceremony on 8 November: ‘Stronger than any challenge by putting Jesus at the centre: a testimony to be imitated even today’.
On All Saints' Day, during the celebration in which he proclaimed St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church and co-patron of the world of education. 'Let us work together to free humanity from the darkness of nihilism that surrounds us. Let us form people in flesh and blood, especially those who seem to fall short of the parameters of an economy that excludes'.
