The 49th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival is being held from 19-27 July in Giffoni Valle Piana (Salerno), Italy. The event brings together 6,200 jurors from 53 countries around the world to the region’s Cinema Citadel and Multimedia Valley, where they will be judging 101 films in the 7 competition sections of the Festival…. Read more »
In Armenian, luys means light. And the first television channel in Armenian and Turkish, inaugurated in Turkey, goes by the name of Luys TV. It is headed by Turkish-Armenian journalist Aram Kuran, who told local media that the project to create a bilingual Armenian-Turkish channel started two years ago. The Luys TV channel was launched…
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Sr. Gabriella Bottani, a Comboni missionary and the international coordinator of Talitha Kum, the worldwide network of consecrated women against human trafficking, was honored as a Hero in the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Launch Ceremony hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 20 June 2019, at the U.S. Department of State…
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Vatican City’s Internet website has been renewed in continuity with the objectives of “rationality, economy and simplicity.” About 12 years after its creation, the site now features a new graphic layout that, although very different from the previous one, is still inspired by the intention of those who created it, namely: the possibility of immediately… Read more »
152 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are the victims of child labor exploitation. That is to say, 1 in 10 children worldwide: 64 million girls and 88 million boys. Unable to attend school and deprived of their childhood, almost half of these children (about 73 million) are forced to carry out… Read more »
The 15th edition of the Biblical Festival organized by the Society of St. Paul, which from Vicenza has extended over time to other cities in the Venice region (Padua, Vittorio Veneto, Rovigo, Verona), from this year on will also reach the territories of Como, Alba and Treviso. The initial intention of the Festival remains unchanged,… Read more »
The holder of this record is the Norwegian town of Mundal, which welcomes the most avid tour-ists and readers from May to September. The “book vocation” unites all the inhabitants of this town, so much so that it has earned the title of Norwegian Booktown. There is no snack bar, shop,
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From 6-10 May 2019, about 850 women Superiors General from all over the world gathered in Rome for the XXI Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). The theme of the meeting, Sowers of Prophetic Hope, focused attention on how women religious can be signs of hope in the midst of the …
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Every year, on 23 April, World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries. The event, sponsored by UNESCO, has been held since 1996 as a response to the Organization’s resolution to encourage reading, publishing activities and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The idea of a day dedicated to books… Read more »
The Sector for Migrants and Refugees of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development organized an International Conference on Human Trafficking. Bishops, priests, men and women religious, project coordinators and pastoral agents from all over the world (a total of almost 200 experts in the field) gathered in Vatican City from 8-11 April 2019… Read more »
