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Fr. Masaharu Torigoe (Salesians): “The loneliness of young Japanese is based on a poor and dormant spirituality”

Every year, the Mext, the Japanese ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology, conducts a nationwide survey on youth issues in all primary, middle and high schools, both public and private, with particular reference to long-term school refusal and absenteeism, severe bullying and violence in schools, and student suicides. The latest results published at … Read more

Fabio Donato: «I photographed Eduardo De Filippo and his son Luca and it was a meeting of loneliness»

by Saturnina Kaiser

the interview NoonDecember 24, 2022 – 08:42 De Filippo’s still photographer, author of extraordinary shots also of Lucio Amelio and Andy Warhol, today teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples: «I have 300,000 photographs in my archive» Of Ida Palisi «My whole life is based on experimentation in a global sense: not photographic … Read more

Talk to me inside. Even a letter can alleviate the loneliness of a prisoner

by Virgil Kish

Bologna, Emilia Romagna – Talk to me insideright here where it hurts the most. Talk to me inside, beyond the bars. Tell me about a life I dream of having again. Tell me about what I can’t see from in here. It sounds like this the “call to words” launched on the occasion of Christmas … Read more

A marathon of words against the loneliness of the elderly in Palma

by Aaron Mathis

Aurora Llodrà is 78 years old, but she retains the same mental dexterity as when she was twenty. She writes poetry and a few years ago she published her own book. She likes the world of spirituality, and she has lived in Santa Catalina for many years. She has children, grandchildren and also friends. However, … Read more

And our loneliness is a desert island

by Steven Felton

There is, in the middle of Shoplifters, the film by Hirokazu Kore-eda, a moving scene, which constitutes the turning point: it is the moment when this family of marginalized, blended family here and there, decides to keep with her little Yuri, after understanding the abuse she suffered in her family of origin. While Sakura Andô … Read more