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Prefect of the Dicastery for Education visits Argentine neighborhood and meets founder of the Pope’s Scholas project

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Vatican, traveled to Barrio 31 to visit the historic headquarters of the international educational movement Scholas Occurrentes, created by Pope Francis at the beginning of his pontificate, where he listened to the testimonies of young people participating in the various initiatives and of the teachers.

Under shadow of Gaza, Israeli government backs settlers expropriating Christian land

Fr. Ibrahim Faltas warns, “The situation is dramatic” and there is “deep concern” about a future without Christians. In the crosshairs of settlers and the governing ultra-right a UNESCO heritage area near Bethlehem. Also in the West Bank an escalation of violence, destruction, arrests and deaths. Alice Kisiya’s “emblematic” story. Already more than 70 Christian families have migrated since the beginning of the war.

Kamala Harris’s Indian world

The vice president, who is now running for the White House after Joe Biden bowed out, has never shied away from her roots in Tamil Nadu. Meeting Modi last year, she said that she got her passion for democracy from her grandfather in Chennai. The very story of her mother Shyamala Gopalan epitomises the rise of the Indian-American community in the country. And Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, is also of Indian origin, from the state of Andhra Pradesh.