Being capable of patience has always helped me. In the wrong times of my childhood, for example, I was effectively supported by the guarantee that time played for me, since good year year I would one day be an adult and would no longer have to undergo these moments. A longtime adult, I continue to … Read more
On the site of the Voice of America radio, the most recent article dates back to Saturday March 15, 11:56 am. His subject: the arrest of Russia by the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who reminds Moscow that the ball is in his camp for a truce in Ukraine. The journalist probably had not yet … Read more
La Croix: During a press conference Thursday, March 13, you explained that the congregation undertook, before the irruption of the scandal in November 2023 and the filing of more than 150 complaints to date, several initiatives towards the victims. What was the action of the priests of Betharram? Laurent Bacho: First of all, I would … Read more
Ten days after the passage of a cyclone which devastated the Mayotte archipelago, a minute of silence was observed Monday in France during a day of national mourning, so that “the Mahorais feel surrounded by an entire country” according to François Bayrou. The Prime Minister, still busy composing his government, gathered staff in the Matignon … Read more
A Saudi human rights activist appeared remotely at a UN forum in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to denounce the “imposed silence” to dissidents in the Gulf kingdom. Lina al-Hathloul’s intervention at the Internet Governance Forum is a rare direct criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, expressed on Saudi soil … Read more
The overthrown Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad, broke his silence on Monday December 16, more than a week after being dismissed, claiming to have only fled Syria at the request of Moscow once the fall of Damascus was recorded and calling the new leaders “terrorists”. Several senior Syrian officials had indicated that the dictator had … Read more
You endured the Lebanese civil war and worked for the UN under extremely difficult circumstances in Iraq, Burma and Libya. How do you confront the brutality of this world? Ghassan Salamé: The only way to deal with violence is to face it head on. It then stops scaring you because you are forced to think … Read more
It is now the final stretch in this long trial. This Wednesday, November 20, the floor will be given to Gisèle Pélicot’s lawyers. Then, from Monday, it will be the indictment of the prosecution, scheduled to last three days. Then, for three weeks, the departmental criminal court will hear the pleadings of the lawyers of … Read more
A year already since October 7 and the horror perpetrated by Hamas. It has already been a year since Israel’s response to the massacre has dragged on, spread, and amplified in a war that no longer has a name, leaving people and lands bloodless. A year that civilians in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon … Read more
Bishops fearing scandal, Abbot Pierre “very sick” and escaping all control: Church archives reveal how, at the end of the 1950s, the episcopal hierarchy kept silent about behavior judged ” problematic “ but never named. It is a cardboard file a few centimeters thick that researchers and journalists can consult at the headquarters of the … Read more