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Many Sri Lankans seek work and easy money in the Gulf, the Middle East, Malaysia and Singapore. However, the poorly educated and the unskilled have become the victims of human trafficking, including prostitution and forced labour. A Sister of the...

A harsh guerrilla group has been terrorizing some areas of Nigeria for some time now. The States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are those most affected by the attacks and for more than a year have been living in a...

A brief experience recounted by a group of young people in Taipei. “Here in Taiwan there has not been much news about the Ebola outbreak, apart from when there seemed to be some danger that it might spread outside of...

Freedom of expression is not an end in itself. Opposite extremes of violent fundamentalism and absolute freedom must give way to the "will to live together". The West is becoming a multi-religious society. As in the case of the Holocaust,...

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, Bishop Raffaello Martinelli will preside at the opening of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the foundress of the Focolare Movement, at the Cathedral of Frascati, Italy. The opening of the Cause was joyfully...

An initiative created by kids living in the slums of Mumbai and by the friends of Shanti Ashram of Coimbatore also known as Kovai, with the support of the Udisha Project. Together with Shanti Ashram, a Hindu movement inspired by...

Mgr Ignatius Kaigama talks about the suffering of a country hit by Islamist violence. For the prelate, what is going on "is not a clash between Christians and Muslims", but the result of an increasingly powerful group that is willing...

Five years ago a catastrophic earthquake struck the Caribbean Island. Commitments for various types of aid actions were set in motion to help the Haitian population. It was a tragedy «that caused death, destruction and also desperation» and where «a...

Nearly a decade after Hurricane Katrina, federal action means 19 lagging states will finally require plans at all child care centers Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - Nearly a decade after Hurricane Katrina showed the nation how vulnerable children are to disaster,...

Muslims in France and around the world banded together on Wednesday to strongly condemn the deadliest terror attack the country has seen in the past two decades. Three masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a notorious satirical...

"The Christian-Jewish dialogue, prospects of re-encounter between two faiths": a courageous title that drew Jews and Christians from various parts of the world for three days, in late November, to live together an experience of growth. “It was not a...

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world." (Malala Yousafzai) Dear friends of the Living Peace Project, Dear peacemakers, Time has come to prepare the Youth World Peace Forum (YWPF) to be held next year 2015,...

“It is our desire that then, every year, this commemoration be repeated as a hope and as a promise, at the beginning of the calendar which measures and outlines the path of human life in time, that Peace with its...

After the Sydney hostage crisis, acts of kindness to counteract the terrorism From the horror that gripped the city of Sydney in the hostage crisis on December 16th that left two of the captives and the hostage-taker dead, seeds of...

“Love lies in the heart of every person, even if it is sometimes hidden. A love that makes the men and women of this earth able to embrace the whole world, able to offer their own values as a gift...