Brother Biagio Conte “Compassion”

Brother Biagio Conte is a Sicilian secular missionary. His role in the Mediterranean area has been very important in helping thousands of needy people from all over the world. His sense of compassion perfectly reflects the meaning of the word compassion, which means "to suffer together" and seems to be the etymology of Biagio Conte's life itself. When a...

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Mediterranean

“An impossible story which has the merit of being true” (Paolo Mauri).

The Mediterranean has always been a sea that, rather than dividing people, has brought them closer. It has been a bridge between nations of different religions, cultures and languages, inviting – and sometimes forcing – them to interact, for better or worse but always,...

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Healing Both the Body and Soul

Manila, Philippines. Some days you would find him in a small clinic wearing a lab coat, some days you would see him in a church in Makati City wearing a cassock. For a man of his age, fitting into two entirely different uniforms may be quite a daunting task. But for this man, he sees no problem wearing two capes. His name is Jaime Roa and he is both a...

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What Lies Beneath

The Philippine deposits of gold, copper, chromium and nickel are considered as the 5th largest in the world. In 2009, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) estimated the country’s gold reserves at 5,080,785,289 tons, based accordingly on the bureau’s consolidation of resource inventory data...

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Manila's Homeless Find Expression In Theater

For Roland Sanlao, 38, being part of a theater workshop brought some of his talents back on the stage. Roland grew up in the province of Zamboanga del Sur in the southern Philippines. Roland used to work as a policeman but got ill of leukemia. One time he got sick and was accused of absence without leave (AWOL). He was not sure why they accused him, but...

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The Weaving Widows of War

In a small church in a suburb of the Philippine capital Manila, a group of women who lost their loved ones to the government's bloody war on drugs, overcome their grief by sewing and weaving.

They are of various ages and from different walks of life, but they are bound by a story of grief. They are women who are left to pick up the pieces,...

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Single Mothers

I explore the question: What does it mean to be a mother?

As I was raised in an orphanage, I never had the chance to meet my mother. In August 2019, I set out to ask women the real meaning of being a mom. I talked with single mothers, young mothers and experienced mothers. Of particular interest to me were single mothers, as they have had a...

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Old Dhaka

Old Dhaka is a term used to refer to the historic old city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is located on the banks of the Buriganga River (Old Ganges River). The Buriganga is economically very important to Dhaka. The Port of Dhaka is a major river port on the Buriganga River in Dhaka. Launches and country boats provide a connection to other parts...

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What Is The Word For Silence?

Amir Khusrau, a Sufi poet of the 13th Century, in the description of Kashmir, is believed to have said “If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.”

These many hundreds of years later, we, as a nation, continue to hold on to the notion of Kashmir as paradise. Some of us do so because we are swept away by...

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Tiware Dam breach: struggle for life continues

Who is Responsible for Man-made Mistakes?
Tiware Dam fulfilled the water requirement for people and farms at Tiware village for the last 14 years. Maintenance work of the dam was ignored and there were major leakages, which was informed often by people to the concerned Irrigation Department but to no avail. Some low-quality repair...

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Swati Lobola Ceremony

About Swati Lobola Ceremony

The Swati Lobola Ceremony is a three day colorful and vibrant affair characterized by song, dance and feasting. It is the culmination of a previous process in which the groom’s family visits the bride’s family to initiate discussions that conclude in an agreement on the number of cows that the groom’s family...

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Hollow souls

"Hollow Souls” is a photo story that strictly employs portraits to tell different narratives of various victims of insurgency. Victims, as narrators of their own stories, talks about sorrow left behind by members of Boko Haram in lives of children, men and mostly women, many of whom lost some of their loved ones to insurgency.

As a result...

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We dare

Besides striving to propagate Islam in a questionable bloody manner, another thrust of the philosophy of Boko Haram is condemnation of Western education. Many students, for embracing Western education, were slaughtered and several others abducted by members of Boko Haram, in the northeastern part of Nigeria. Over a million school children and their family...

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A dying kind of business

There was a sombre atmosphere at Centenary Enterprises the day I visited. As Kabwe town’s best known wholesaler and retailer sells the last stock of washing powder and sugar.

There are no long lines of people queuing up, and the shop is eerily empty and quiet. Where all the different products used to be displayed with handwritten price tags,...

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The Ramnamis

In India, the concept of the God Ram has always been political. In Ramcharitmanash—biography of Ram written in verse by the medieval poet, Tulsidas—Ram had been drawn as an individual who stands for virtues valuable to Indian civil code, and as a ruler He was depicted as the last word for able and kind governance. Because of the beauty and simplicity of...

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Losing Horizon

Known as Changpas, or people who migrated from the Tibetan district of ‘Changthang, a very special community resides-- or rather moves around-- the dry mountains of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Rearing goats is their only way of life and for these soft but hairy creatures these shepherds migrate from place to place looking for pastures. The community...

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Migrants in Malaysia's tea estates

Migration for foreign employment has become a major source of income for a many Nepali households. Almost half of the Nepali households have at least one member working abroad. During the fiscal year of 2014, more than 520,000 labour permits were issued to Nepalis planning to work abroad. Malaysia is the number one destination country for Nepali migrants,...

A Struggle for Democracy

This work was started on 10 November 1987 Dhaka Siege Day. The people had united in a stand to overthrow the autocratic regime of General Ershad. A young worker, Nur Hossain, led one of the rallies. He had painted on his chest Let Democracy Live. He was the first of man who were killed by the police in the movement. The sequence of events, over the...