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China is using the “partnership” with several African countries to exploit local workers, to export unemployed people and to sell cheap Chinese goods labeled in Cantonese.
To secure their food supplies and the production of biofuels, several countries are buying or leasing huge amounts of farmland in poor nations, in Asia, Latin America and mainly in Africa. Some say that the investment could aid to develop the local economies, but the phenomenon – that has already a name: the land grab – can be also a menace to small farmers and local communities. Some denounce it as just a form of new colonialism and say that will worsen poverty and malnutrition.
A well-known writer on environmental themes and a missionary who spent more than twenty years in the Philippines, Fr. Seán McDonagh is leading a campaign to denounce the negative impact of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Because he believes they are not at all the solution to feed the poor of the world but, on the contrary, they can only contribute to create more famine and hunger.
A deep friendship started more than half a century ago between a European missionary and an African teacher. The first is now over ninety, and loves to talk about his late friend. Not because he is on the way to beatification, but because he was a good example of a Catholic, a human being and a politician. A saintly politician: Is there something more inspiring?
Murder, rape, torture, pillage and displacement of a large number of civilians in Darfur, have turned this Sudanese region into a hell. Portuguese Comboni Missionary, Fr. Feliz da Costa, who has been working in Sudan for 20 years – the last three in Nyala – is a privileged witness of the crimes committed in the territory and of the people’s longing for peace.
American Passionist priest, Fr. Thomas Berry, who died last month at the age of 94, was by far the most important and insightful Catholic commentator on environmental issues in the second half of the 20th century. In 1989, Newsweek described him as “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians.”
“Whatever house you enter, stay there.”
(Read Mark 6:10-13)
