Pope Francis waves from his Papamobile at St. Louis Catholic Church in Bangkok, Thailand November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo At the end of his visit to the Vatican, the mayor of Nazareth, Ali Salam, announced that Pope Francis intends to make a second visit to the Holy Land during the next year, at the…
Vatican City (dpa) – Pope Francis on Saturday called on the Vatican hierarchy to embrace change as he quoted a late progressive cardinal who warned that the Catholic Church was seriously behind the times. “Cardinal Martini, in his last interview a few days before his death, said words that should make us reflect: ‘The church is 200 years…
Venezuelan inflation has exceeded 5500%. The data were released Monday by the parliament’s finance committee, TASS reported. Thus, the inflation in November reached up to 35.8%, committee member Angel Alvarado tweeted. Venezuela faces a socio-economic crisis, accompanied by hyperinflation, the devaluation of the national currency and a shortage of essential goods. According to UN data, about…
A person holds U.S. dollars and Venezuelan bolivares in Caracas. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The U.S. dollar has extended its dominance in Venezuela as locals increasingly turn to the greenback for even the smallest of purchases. Physical dollars now account for more than half of all retail transactions as the amount in circulation has increased…
Bogota, Dec 3 (Prensa Latina) Several experts are currently warning that President Ivan Duque, one of the promoters of the application of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) against Venezuela, intends to resolve the internal crisis in Colombia through new aggressions against that neighboring country. Such claims come as Bogota hosts this Tuesday a…
Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China arrive on their armoured vehicles at Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015 Reuters The US is locked in an escalating face-off with top rivals Russia and China. But head-to-head…
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President Donald Trump. Photos: Pedro Pardo/AFP and Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign secretary, said Wednesday that he is in contact with the U.S. government following President Trump’s announced plans to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. What they’re saying: Mexico’s president characterized Trump’s proposal as “interventionism” on Wednesday,…
New Delhi, India (CNN) On the eve of India‘s independence, the man who would soon become the country’s first Prime Minister outlined an aspirational vision. India would be a nation where people of all religions had equal rights, privileges, and obligations, Jawaharlal Nehru said in his now-iconic speech to the country’s parliament on August 14, 1947. Now,…
PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah The media-political establishment of the United States of America suffers from remarkable hubris. Despite the atrocious conduct of the USA in recent times, the liberal media and the Democrat party continues to feign moral superiority over the rest of the world, especially India. As the USA continues to…
Those who’ve fled report more signs of backlash in host countries of Colombia, Peru Venezuelan migrants arrive at immigration control in Tumbes, Peru, on June 14. Over four million have fled Venezuela amid the political and economic turmoil in the country in the past three years. (Martin Mejia/The Associated Press) The Venezuela migration crisis has…