Coming out of an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on November 14, the Franco-Belgian writer Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt assured him: “ Literature is a bridge of meaning and possibly of faith. An intimate moment, a moment of introspection, reading can indeed prove to be the place of an encounter with God, or of a … Read more
Geraldine Tobe, a young Congolese artist, has spent two years devoted to a high-minded company. She seeks to awaken past souls through creation. She trusts that, having conjured up the spirits through art, today’s Africa listens attentively to the floating wisdom of those who have already died… And still remain. L´esprit des ancetres, The spirit … Read more
What to do when, between the ages of 3 and 7, children’s questions about God, life and death arise? “How can we tell them about the love of God, whom we cannot see, hear or understand? How do we tell them that the one we cannot present to them is there in our lives?” In … Read more
The Malagasy population is rooted in spirituality. For better or for worse, faith is part of the Malagasy identity. Half of the population remains rooted in traditional beliefs steeped in practices close to occultism, in which the living and the dead live side by side on a daily basis. These practices have tended to hamper … Read more
‘When I die, all that is mine will be yours, except my dreams’. —’The Shadow of the Wind’ (2011), Carlos Ruíz Zafón Zhuang Zhou once dreamed that he was a butterfly fluttering happily. He did not know that he was Zhou. Suddenly, he woke up and was palpably Zhou. He didn’t know if it was … Read more
In the same way that we separate our body from our spirit, as good Cartesian heirs, we too often oppose the material to the spiritual. Immersed in a very active life, in direct contact with a busy daily life, we think that we would have to do something quite different to reach the spiritual dimension … Read more
Krzysztof Zanussi he is a master, a giant of cinema, but above all a free man. The Polish director was the protagonist of the meeting “Cinema, light, life” on Friday 8 July 2022 as part of the Lecco Film Fest. Interviewed by Gianluca Arnoneeditorial coordinator of Foundation of the Entertainment Organizationshowed all his generosity by … Read more
The Malagasy population is rooted in spirituality. For better or for worse, faith is part of the Malagasy identity. Half of the population remains rooted in traditional beliefs steeped in practices close to occultism, in which the living and the dead live side by side on a daily basis. These practices have tended to hamper … Read more