The legislation, which provides for the registration of marriages, divorces and cohabitation for members of all religions, officially came into effect today and will apply to Uttarakhand residents living in other Indian states. For law supporters, it is an important reform in favour of equality, but it abolishes several Muslim religious customs, and risks creating jurisdictional conflicts between the central and state governments.
Fr. Karakach reaches out to AsiaNews, sharing that the country still has ‘a long way to go’ to become a true ‘rule of law, stable and democratic state’. Among the positives are an open economy and conflict resolution with neighbours, concerns about ‘political freedom’ and an ‘Islamist’ matrix. Summary executions of at least 35 former Assad officials over the weekend.
Analyst Syroežkin - freed from prison after being convicted in 2019 of ‘treason’ - analysed the state of Kazakhstan's relations with China in a television interview: ‘The president is one of the few Kazakhs who can understand Chinese policy: he tries to pursue an effective balance with Moscow. But his promises about a new and just country still remain limp’.
Pope Francis at the Angelus spoke of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp: "The horror cannot be forgotten". In Sudan the "most serious humanitarian crisis in the world". On the Word of God Sunday: "It is alive: walk with us". Catholic Action youth: "It would be nice if the great of the Earth also passed through the Holy Door".
AsiaNews in conversation with Patras Paul, a Muslim cleric who suddenly - more than twenty years ago - reading the Gospel found in it the answers he could no longer find in the Koran. He tells of the persecution he suffered for this choice and of his difficult life today. His battle to have his new religious identity recognised on his identity card.
The appeal in the speech delivered this morning in Rome to participants in the Jubilee of Communications. The warning by Filipino Nobel Maria Ressa: ‘Today's powers exploit the great media platforms to make us doubt everything and paralyse people’. Writer Colum McCann: ‘The distance between enemy and neighbour is shortened only by listening to their story’.
