Sinoj Thomas

Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million, faces an economic and political crisis, with protesters taking to the streets in defiance of curfews and government ministers stepping down en masse. The crisis has been years in the making, driven by a little bad luck and government mismanagement. Over the past decade, the Sri Lankan government has borrowed vast sums from foreign lenders to fund public services. This borrowing spree has coincided with a series of hammer blows to the Sri Lankan economy, from both natural disasters such as heavy monsoons to manufactured catastrophes, including a government ban on chemical fertilizers that decimated farmers’ harvests.

Michal Martinka

In Russian attack to Ukraine, it is possible to discover many types of war: the aggressive bloody war against Ukraine, the propaganda war against truth in Russia and on both fronts. It is possible to watch another type of war not seen in the past. The hackers group known as “Anonymous” declared in Twitter cyber-war against Russia.

Noble Pettayil Babu

Too little or too much sleep’ more likely to cause cognitive problems in the long-term. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that the perfect dose of sleep is seven hours for people wanting to keep their minds healthy in middle age and beyond.

Luckston De Silva

The Holy Father, Pope Francis has chosen ‘Listen with the ear of the heart’ as the theme for the 56^th World Communication Day of 2022. According to him, we are losing the ability to listen to others in our day today life. So, “Listening” has become a challenging phenomenon to an educator or a formator, parents and teachers, pastors and pastoral workers, communication professionals and people who carry out social service and political service. He emphasized the quality of listening, which he said “is decisive in the grammar of communication and is a condition for genuine dialogue.”

Michael Kong

NFTs have caught the world’s attention when a price of a collage of images by digital artist Beeple was reached $69.3 million. Not only that, Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold for US $2.9 million, a video clip of a LeBron James slam dunk sold for over $0.2 million and a decade-old “Nyan Cat” GIF went for $0.6 million.

Sinoj Thomas

Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the most prominent consulting firms in the United States to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok. Meta, which shed hundreds of billions in value earlier this year due to doubts about its future, is in a pitched fight against the video-sharing platform popular with young social media fans.

Alice Topno

Wednesday 23 March the Pope Francis recall his veteran grandfather who taught him to loath war. The pope offered a “personal testimony” during the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall. His grandfather was a radio operator caught up in fighting in northern Italy during World War I.

Duck Young (Michael) Kong / Comment

Gregorian chant has been sung in the Catholic Church for centuries. But now, it seemed to have vanished. When people hear the phrase “Gregorian chant” these days, they either have no recollection of it, or they think of the only chants they ever hear: the Kyrie, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei during mass.

Mykolas Sotničenka

Refugee reception policies cannot be linked to a particular religion, as some countries have called for, says a new UN report, which stresses this is a principle with which the Holy See has expressed its full agreement.