Jiang Zemin, flag bearer of China’s period of strong economic growth, dies

Jiang Zemin, president of the People’s Republic of China between 1993 and 2003, died at the age of 96 in Shanghai, according to Chinese official media. The Chinese giant thus loses a key figure in the great national economic boom of the 1990s, which took place just after the controversy aroused by the massacre in … Read more

The Ukrainian flag signed by children as a gift to the Pope

At the end of the general audience, a group of young people who have found hospitality in the House for spiritual retreats in Lipinki, Poland, gave the Pope the blue and yellow flag with their signatures and the inscriptions of words of peace for their people and of gratitude to the Pope. In the morning, … Read more

Hindu flag in front of Parliament | Shades for this politically charged symbol

Tuesday 1er Last November, Chandra Arya, Member of Parliament for Nepean, Ontario, tweeted, “Today I mark the historic start of National Hindu Heritage Month of Canada (MPH) by raising a flag bearing the symbol sacred hindu aum on hill. The MPH is an opportunity to recognize the contributions of 830,000 Hindu Canadians to our country … Read more