Whatever the Price: A CCP Leader’s War on the Faith

For nearly 100 million Chinese, 1999 was a defining moment in their lives. This year, Jiang Zeminhead of the Chinese Communist Party, launched a persecution across the country targeting without distinction all practitioners of Falun Gong. Jiang Zemin, described by some human rights defenders as one of the most terrible tyrants in history, died on … Read more

‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ is a great war spectacle: James Cameron returns to the epic adventure in a pharaonic blockbuster that is far from the best of the year

‘Avatar: the sense of water’ (Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022) opens on December 16, finally closing a cycle that began 13 years ago with the special effects revolution of the first part. Now, with 3D technology assimilated and almost forgotten by the general public, there was expectation for the new technological bet of James … Read more

Banshees of Inisherin, the allegory of the Irish Civil War

Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, ‘Banshees by Inisherin‘, directed by Martin McDonagh (‘Three advertisements on the outskirts‘), tells the story of lifelong friends Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who find themselves at a dead end when Colm unexpectedly ends … Read more

On the use of the words “holy war” and “satanism” in the war in Ukraine

“Holy war”: here is a notion that we often hear lately in the Russian political space to justify Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Regularly added are the terms of “satanicism” and D’“Antichrist”. Not all Russian social and political actors have the same representations of it, and these vary according to the audiences they address. But the … Read more

A muffled and reassuring comfort zone. Russian state television before and after the war (by F. Lazzarin)

(by Francesca Lazzarin, PhD in Slavic studies, translator and interpreter) “Perhaps, to understand where we were going, we should have watched TV more often”, a dismayed friend and colleague, a young Russian university professor, wrote to me two days later on February 24th. Because he prefers private and progressive channels like “Dozhd’” (known in Europe … Read more

Andrea Tornielli: Nine months of war, a wound that worries us as Christians

We are approaching the end of the ninth month since the start of the horrible war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine. nine months is the time when a human life takes shape in the womb and then comes to lightbut the one in Ukraine has not been a gestation of life, but only of … Read more

Christians affected by the wound of the war in Ukraine

This is the scandal of a conflict involving peoples sharing the same baptism: faith and religious tradition can never be taken for granted and taken for granted. Andrea Tornielli We are approaching the ninth month since the start of Russia’s horrific war of aggression against Ukraine. Nine months is the time during which a human … Read more

Francisca Vargas, psychologist and mentor: “There is a language of war in personal development, which is harmful”

At the beginning of 2020, the psychologist Francisca Vargas (@franciscavargas_com) received a call from the Planeta publishing house: they invited her to write a book about her personal process, her trips to the East, her liberation, and how she had been encountering her fears , guilt, with love and death. Also, how she had traced … Read more

«We have always lived in war, but it seems that there is only one if it affects you»

James Plensa (Barcelona, ​​1955). Dress in rigorous black. Slow movements. Hugely successful artist. The interview takes place in a magical space near the Basilica de la Vera Cruz, to which he will bring a distinguished contemporary touch. It gives the impression that the silence that reigns here, surrounding us, is alive, listens and sees. – … Read more