News Analysis

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  12 November 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Human mobility and migration: a challenge for today's Christians Fr. Delmar Alberto Silva Paez, Scalabrinian, Superior in the province of his congregation that includes Asia and Australia, at the conclusion of the General Chapter of his congregation helps to reflect on the phenomenon ...
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  22 September 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Venezuela: the Church defends freedom of information While a very harsh report by Amnesty International on violence, the right to life and public security in Venezuela is being published and as the international community intensifies pressure on President Nicolás Maduro's ...
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  23 June 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The Church in India welcomes migrants and refugees The Church in India welcomes and is close to migrants and refugees, trying to remember and put into practice the message of Pope Francis who said: “Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encount ...
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  26 May 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Foreign debt in Africa: a sword of Damocles on millions of poor The foreign debt that Sub-Saharan African Countries have accumulated over the past few years is an unresolved issue. After the great abolitionist campaign, promoted on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of 2000, there is ...
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  12 May 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Latin Catholics, root of faith in the United States Latinos are a growing minority: their influence in the United States is extremely significant, because the great socio-cultural and religious wealth continues to shape all the social and existential dimensions of the Uni ...
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  21 April 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Christians in Syria Middle East Christians are in serious danger. However to really understand this we must consider the context of the whole region. Sectarian division, the absence of authentic democracy, security, respect for civil righ ...
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  9 April 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The "subtle enemies" of holiness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The new Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis "Gaudete et exultate" on the "call to holiness in the contemporary world" was presented today at the Vatican. It is a document in five chapters ...
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  7 April 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Vietnam in motion, between emigration and evangelization Society and the Vietnamese Church show remarkable initiative. The standard of living has greatly improved over the past two decades. There is much excitement in this very young society. And the Catholic community arouses ...
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  20 March 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Egypt to vote: "the strong man" al Sisi between radical Islam and religious freedom "It is better to choose a person I know rather than a stranger. Thus says an Egyptian proverb. I am not a political scientist but, knowing the Egyptians a bit, I believe they will eventually choose Abdel Fattah al Sisi". ...
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  19 January 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Cardinal Hummes: "A model of development for the Amazon starting from the Gospel" "The model of development that is being applied in the Amazon by governments, large public companies and private initiatives is damaging and devastating for the environment and for the indigenous peoples. The Church can ...
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  18 January 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Francis in Peru, a polarized country and in need of reconciliation Pope Francis' visit to Inca land comes at a critical and therefore providential moment. On the one hand there is the harsh reality of the victims of the north coast of Peru due to the devastation caused by the typhoon El ...
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  10 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Executive secretary for the "Mapuche pastoral": we do not expect political solutions to our problems from the Pope Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Mapuche are waiting for Pope Francis "to bless us, to strengthen our faith". They hope his homilies will favor "social peace". But they do not expect political solutions from him to ...
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  18 December 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Pakistan: protection and full citizenship for religious minorities There is not only terrorist violence, gratuitous and destructive that affect religious minorities in Pakistan. The attack on the Methodist Church in Quetta brings to light the difficult condition of religious minorities ...
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  2 December 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Bangladesh: at the root of Islamist extremism Shahab Enam Khan, professor of international relations at Jahangimagar University, Dhaka and member of the Enterprise Institute, has long studied radical Islamist movements. In a recent interview with Fides in his office ...
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  23 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Zimbabwe: Farewell to the "Old Elephant", the hope is democracy Robert Mugabe, the "Old Elephant" of Zimbabwe, has left power. He ruled for 37 years and if it had been for him, he would have run for president again in 2018 and would have continued to rule. For how long? It is not kno ...