The US still needs Europe but only if it remains free
On 27 May, Samuel Samson, a 26-year-old senior advisor to the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, published an official newsletter outlining the Trump administration's relations with Europe. It immediately caused a scandal, with calls for regime change. Like JD Vance's speech in Munich, it is actually a warning to Europeans not to betray their cultural roots.
Trump’s complicated gamble for world peace identifies China as main enemy
The long phone call between the US President and Putin, aimed at pushing for an end to the conflict in Ukraine, is part of an ambitious project to redefine international relations on all fronts: Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central and South Asia. This is based on the belief that the US's main rival is China. As demonstrated by the recent mission to the Middle East...
The difficult return of cardinals to countries ravaged by war and persecution
Cardinals from Congo, Nicaragua, India and Iran could have requested and obtained refugee status in Rome. Instead, they chose to return to their countries and face persecution alongside the faithful.
After conclave: cardinals who deserve refugee status return to troubled countries
South Sudan, Haiti and Myanmar are just a few of the countries where priests and lay people suffer daily violence and persecution caused by war, political hatred and religious intolerance. Having been present in Rome for the Conclave, these cardinals would be entitled to refugee status. However, they are choosing to return and stand alongside their congregations, accepting the risks that entails.
Cardinal Pizzaballa appeals for hope in war-torn Jerusalem
“We are not afraid... We are the children of light, we hope and we believe in the love that conquers all". These were the words of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pizzaballa, during the Palm Sunday procession with a small number of pilgrims, while war raged around them and Christians were paying dearly for the consequences of this conflict.
Syrian Alawite speaks out about massacres world ignores
Only religious reasons are the cause for the Alawites’ slaughter in western Syria. There is no uprising by those nostalgic for the old regime, but a massacre of civilians by the new regime. An Alawite from Latakia speaks out.
EU hypocrisy on Russia prevents a solution
The reasons for concern about Putin's policies are more than justified, but the conflict is not between 'good' and 'bad'; it is a clear choice between military confrontation or a ceasefire, perhaps even a 'freeze'.
The new Syrian regime shows its true face
More than a thousand civilians killed in four days, in Syria, a large-scale massacre of religious minorities, especially Alawites, is taking place in the western provinces. The Daily Compass interviews Father Dany from Qamishli on the Syrian tragedy.
Four truths revealed by the war in Ukraine
US President Trump's strategy in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict brings to light certain facts hitherto hidden by propaganda. Among them is the realisation that national interests take precedence over proclaimed values.
Trump's slap in Zelensky's face also felt in Europe
The heated confrontation in the Oval Office last Friday, before the media, was the result of an unusual ritual for such a meeting: amateurism or a "trap" to make the Ukrainian president look ridiculous? In any case, the response of the London summit seems confused and unrealistic.
Germany, excluding AfD from government proves Vance right
Once again the electorate is being ignored and the alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, the big losers in the German elections, is on the table. It confirms the regression of democracy and how the power of elites censor the ideas of their citizens.
