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Moving towards peace and solidarity through sport
It was cold, very chilly, the evening of the Opening Ceremony of PyeongChang 2018. But spirits were lifted when delegations from North and South Korea marched into the stadium, unified, raising hopes for peace on a peninsula lengthy divided and sparking faith that activity could assist deter, if not diminish, a geopolitical confrontation crackling with anxiety of nuclear doom. In current heritage, this scene – in fact, this spectacle from the 2018 Online games, which then observed the blended North and South Korean women’s ice hockey crew competing with each other – marked a vivid illustration of what the Olympic Constitution can make explicitly very clear is the aspirational…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: arming Ukraine is ‘the only path to peace’, says UK foreign secretary | Ukraine
Arming Ukraine ‘only path to peace’, says UK foreign secretary Helping to arm Ukraine so it can defend itself against Russia is the swiftest path to achieving peace, British foreign secretary James Cleverly said in an article published on Sunday. Writing in the Times of Malta ahead of a visit on Tuesday to the Mediterranean island, which assumed the presidency of the U.N. Security Council at the start of February, Cleverly wrote: Like all authoritarian rulers, Putin responds only to strength in his opponents. He rejected Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s 10-point plan for peace last December. That is why the UK and Ukraine’s friends are doing all they can to bring Ukraine…
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Pope: more than ever today the world needs the Good News of peace
Pope Francis releases his concept for Earth Mission Working day 2023 and urges the faithful to be a part of in bringing the Gospel to today’s broken world following the case in point of the disciples on the way to Emmaus. By Lisa Zengarini Wanting in advance to the Environment Mission Working day to be noticed this 12 months on 29 Oct, Pope Francis is contacting on all Christians to sign up for together in contributing to missionary attempts with their private witness of the Gospel, heeding the case in point of the Disciples on the road to Emmaus. The World Mission Day is observed each and every calendar year…