Vatican City’s Internet website has been renewed in continuity with the objectives of “rationality, economy and simplicity.” About 12 years after its creation, the site now features a new graphic layout that, although very different from the previous one, is still inspired by the intention of those who created it, namely: the possibility of immediately… Read more »
152 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are the victims of child labor exploitation. That is to say, 1 in 10 children worldwide: 64 million girls and 88 million boys. Unable to attend school and deprived of their childhood, almost half of these children (about 73 million) are forced to carry out… Read more »
The 15th edition of the Biblical Festival organized by the Society of St. Paul, which from Vicenza has extended over time to other cities in the Venice region (Padua, Vittorio Veneto, Rovigo, Verona), from this year on will also reach the territories of Como, Alba and Treviso. The initial intention of the Festival remains unchanged,… Read more »
The holder of this record is the Norwegian town of Mundal, which welcomes the most avid tour-ists and readers from May to September. The “book vocation” unites all the inhabitants of this town, so much so that it has earned the title of Norwegian Booktown. There is no snack bar, shop,
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From 6-10 May 2019, about 850 women Superiors General from all over the world gathered in Rome for the XXI Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). The theme of the meeting, Sowers of Prophetic Hope, focused attention on how women religious can be signs of hope in the midst of the …
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Every year, on 23 April, World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries. The event, sponsored by UNESCO, has been held since 1996 as a response to the Organization’s resolution to encourage reading, publishing activities and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The idea of a day dedicated to books… Read more »
The Sector for Migrants and Refugees of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development organized an International Conference on Human Trafficking. Bishops, priests, men and women religious, project coordinators and pastoral agents from all over the world (a total of almost 200 experts in the field) gathered in Vatican City from 8-11 April 2019… Read more »
The 13th edition of the International Journalism Festival, held in Perugia, Italy from 3-7 April 2019, featured 600 guest speakers (half of them women) from all over the world and a huge public eager to participate in a rich agenda centered on current topics and information. An increasingly young and cosmopolitan public poured into Perugia… Read more »
The tenth edition of Italy’s annual Book and Reading Festival, dedicated this year to the theme of freedom, was held in the Parco della Musica Auditorium, Rome, from 14-17 March 2019. Over the past ten years, the Festival has attracted over 325,000 people, going beyond national boundaries to involve authors, publishers, readers, actors, politicians and…
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The World Wide Web is celebrating its 30th birthday. On 12 March 1989, physicist Tim Berners Lee presented an essay to CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, proposing the theoretical basis of a computer network that would allow computers throughout the world to interact with one another. The first web site… Read more »
