Adriano Bianchi

Giornata comunicazioni sociali

Le cattive notizie non mancano mai. Incidenti, omicidi, guerre, calamità naturali non possono essere taciuti. Il racconto è sempre necessario. Ma con quale sguardo? Papa Francesco, in occasione della giornata mondiale delle comunicazioni sociali 2017, chiede a giornalisti e operatori della comunicazione di indossare gli occhiali della fiducia e della speranza. Non si tratta di […]

International Politics

The people of the United States have chosen as their President Mr. Donald Trump, who during the election campaign had announced that once elected he would have been the president of America First. As often happens, political observers tirelessly repeated that his program was so dangerous and absurd that even if he had been elected, […]

The heritage of National Socialism

Since 1996 Germany has observed a National Remembrance Day to commemorate and pay tribute to the victims of the totalitarian regime during the 12-year Nazi rule: Jews, Christians, Sinti, Roma, disabled, homosexuals, political dissidents, men and women who fought in the Resistance, scientists, artists, journalists, war prisoners and deserters, old people and children. Under the […]

Reportage

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is imminent (he will be officially sworn in on January 20), and there is growing concern among Catholic undocumented immigrant families, most of whom are Latin-Americans, that the New York tycoon may carry out his electoral promises in terms of migration policies, as he reaffirmed in the last few hours. In […]

A precious appointment

I think that in the plant kingdom we know of no plant without roots. The deepness and visibility of these roots may differ, but the roots are an integrating part of all that has branches, leaves, flowers and fruits, in whichever realm. Hence it is a given fact that this reflection – however obvious it […]

Cinema

Martin Scorsese, world renowned Italo-American film-director and producer, who directed landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging bull, the Last Temptation of Christ, Hugo Cabret, had been planning to bring to the big screen the novel written by Japanese writer Shūsaku Endō, Silence, that retraces the tragedy of the Jesuit priests and Christians faithful tortured […]

From Damascus

When he was living in Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus, Ahem Ahmad responded to the deadly hiss of the bombs with the engaging notes of the piano that he pushed on a cart along the rubble-covered streets. He would start playing right there, amidst the devastated buildings, to send a message of […]

Refugees at the gates of Europe

Looking back at the year that has just ended the so-called “refugee crisis” remains the prevailing issue marking political controversies within the European Union. As compared to the previous year, there has been a decline in the number of people arriving in Europe crossing stormy seas and perilous – often deadly – routes. It’s the […]

Geopolitics

Is there a new Cold War on the horizon? We all hope that 2017 will not usher in a heated war, but future developments of US-Russia relations are hard to envision, considering the true nature of Putin and of Donald Trump, the latter due to take the Oath of Office at the helm of the […]

Solidarity and Ecumenism

The snow fallen in Siberia in the past two is more than that of all of last winter. Temperatures registered -13° and today in Novosibirsk the sun was shining, but forecasts say that temperatures will drop to -30° in the coming days, as past November. We’re in the capital of western Siberia, Russia’s third largest […]