When I see one of these, I stop, read, pray, think. If
#Stolpersteine
give the same effect to other people, they are to be considered as one of the most successful tools to remember the victims of
#Shoah
and to commit not to make it happen again. #זוכר
#brussels
#Holocaust
Some of the hundreds of 2nd century B.C. Roman amphorae found under the
#sea
, near Capo Graziano,
#Filicudi
,
#Eolie
. These amphorae were made in center Italy and most probably contained olive oil or wine. They are now located in the
#Archaeology
Museum of
#Lipari
. history
#sicily
568 years ago from today, on 29 May 1453, the city of
#Constantinople
was captured by the Ottoman Empire guided by Sultan Mehemed II. Sicilian volunteers were there defending the Byzantine capital city. Here a French miniature of the siege, by Jean Le Tavernier (1455).
#History
🏛🏺In the ancient city of
#Selinus
(
#Sicily
) archaeologists uncovered the largest agora in the ancient world: 33,000m2! They also found the remains of what seems to have been the sacred place of the first Greek colonies in 610BC.
#Selinunte
#archaeology
📰
What is the
#EU
doing to face
#ClimateEmergency
? I discussed it at (Re)thinking Europe, on
@radiorcf
, with Cinzia Verzeletti, Coordinator of the European
#LaudatoSi
' Alliance (
#ELSIA
), who also provides good practice examples from the Catholic Church.
🎙
What is the current situation in
#Lebanon
and what could the
#EU
do to support the local population? Listen to my interview with Mgr. Youssef Soueif, Archbishop of the Maronites in Tripoli. Podcast available on
@radiorcf
/
@rcfbruxelles
.
🔊
Gun shoots in Toison d’Or,
#Bruxelles
, confirmed by police. 4 people injured, one seriously, one is a female tourist. Shooter(s) fled the scene. The nature of the event is still unknown. Day after day we witness how unsafe
#Brussels
is.
#security
#violence
Oggi ho ricevuto il bollino del 2020 e mi sono reso conto che sono già passati 10 anni dall’iscrizione all’Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti.
#sembraieri
Noto con dispiacere e frustrazione l'incapacità di alcuni di comprendere/ammettere che in una parte della sinistra e del mondo arabo serpeggia un forte
#antisemitismo
mascherato da antisionismo. E' un fenomeno in ascesa che si aggiunge a quello tradizionale nazi-fascista.
My thoughts and prayers go to the Afghan families to whom the Western world had promised a free country. Instead they have been left behind to deal with the
#Talibans
.
#Afghanistan
È venuto a mancare il giornalista Andrea Purgatori, che ho seguito sin dall’inizio del mio percorso giornalistico da ragazzino. Con la sua morte viene a mancare un contributo fondamentale al giornalismo di qualità in Italia. Condoglianze alla famiglia.
#andreapurgatori
#purgatori
In 2017 I followed the
#Nile
river from
#Sudan
’s border to
#Cairo
. These photos show you what I did once I finally arrived to the
#gizapyramids
. What you cannot see is me at a local police station explaining what I was doing dressed like that.
#Egypt
📷 Here some photos (quelle che ho trovato) of
@journalismfest
2009 and 2010: a life experience that fueled my passion for journalism and allowed me to meet extraordinary people who are now true friends. Grazie
@_arianna
!
#ijfphotos
📰🎙Ieri la
@ComeceEu
ha lanciato , piattaforma online che riunisce le dirette video di 30 santuari europei. I dettagli dell'iniziativa li trovate in questo mio breve intervento a
@vaticannews_it
. Grazie
@gabriellaceras2
!
No wind this morning but nevertheless I left the island of
#Panarea
and I am heading to
#Stromboli
, one of the “lighthouse” for all ancient Mediterranean civilisations. It is here that Jules Verne’s “Voyage au centre de la Terre” finishes.
#home
#sicily
#trinacria
#sailing
Salman Rushdie was stabbed today during a public event - there’s been a fatwa on him from the Ayatollah of Iran since 1989.
I hope this great writer recovers soon.
#salmanrushdie
#noterrorism
#freedomofspeech
"Il comunicatore cristiano usa le immagini per aprire delle finestre sul mistero di Dio e sulla vincenda umana", afferma
@monda66
, direttore di
@oss_romano
, durante l'incontro annuale
@MediaCcee
degli addetti stampa delle conferenze episcopali europee.
Today is
#SaintLucy
's Day, celebrating Lucia of
#Syracuse
, IV century BC martyr under the Diocletianic Persecution. In
#Sicily
#arancini
are traditionally eaten to commemorate the arrival of grain supply ships on
#SantaLucia
's day in 1646, relieving a severe famine.
#history
📺After 2weeks of intense work with the
@ComeceEu
trainee Emilio Dogliani and the "Media Affairs" technicians suggested by
@SIGNIS
, I am glad we launched gathering the live streaming of around 30 European Catholic sanctuaries.
While surfing on the
@librarycongress
website, I found this old photo of the motorcade for US President Eisenhower's visit to
#Kabul
in 1959 and decided to share it here on the day the US army left
#Afghanistan
after 20 years of war. Photographer: Thomas J. O'Halloran.
#history
I thought it was time to change profile picture. Here I was in the main square of Meknes, Morocco, built in the XVII century during the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismail.
#morocco
#history
I am extremely saddened by this news. Bernd was a good person, humble, warm and friendly. He was also a professional journalist and I will never forget his teachings. RIP, my friend.
🔴
#JobOpportunity
in
#Brussels
.
The institution I am working for is looking for a Policy Advisor on Social & Economic Affairs. Full time job under an indefinite period contract.
@ComeceEu
Apply now:
Deadline: 24 April 2020
I want to thank Mgr Selim Sfeir, Archbishop of the Maronites in Cyprus, and Mgr Bruno Varriano, Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Cyprus, for the warm welcome to the
@MediaCcee
meeting of Press Officers of European Episcopates, which this year meets on the beautiful island of
#Cyprus
.
On the 17th anniversary of his death, I would like to share a photo of my friend Francesco (left) and myself (right) with the greatest cyclist of all times,
#MarcoPantani
. I was 17yo and a cyclist at the time - he was my idol. Rip
#Pirata
Studying some of the first tools produced and used by humans while flying on board of an airplane during sunset.
#Humanity
is beautiful.
#prehistory
#archaeology
🏺Archaeologists discovered traces of opium in 1400 BC ceramic artifacts, the earliest known evidence of the drug in the ancient world. The vessels were uncovered in a Canaanite burial site and the opium could have been connected with an end-of-life ritual.
#Archaeology
#TelYehud
🔴Pope Francis announces 13 new Cardinals. Mgr.
@JCHollerich
, President of
@ComeceEu
, is among those prelates who will receive the red hat on October 5th, the vigil of the Amazon
@Synod_va
. Sincere congratulazioni, Monsignore!
@VaticanNews
➡
For decades
#LetiziaBattaglia
has been documenting the
#mafia
and their vicitim in
#Sicily
. She was a "
#photographer
against mafia", not only a "photographer of mafia", but she also documented normal daily life in Sicily. She was one of the best among us, Sicilians. Ciao Letizia.
I hear about
#Ypres
since I was a young student. This week I finally visited it together with the
@ComeceEu
Bishops, who prayed for all
#WWI
victims and for
#peace
. After my experiences in the
#MENA
region, this trip confirmed me once more that
#war
has no winners, only victims.
Felice di partecipare alla manifestazione contro il
#PontesulloStretto
. Le motivazioni per il mio
#noponte
sono tante, dalla sostenibilità ambientale alla difesa delle vere priorità infrastrutturali in Sicilia/Calabria. In più, sono nato in un’isola e voglio che rimanga tale.
My friend
@Dana_Savariego
organises a relief fund to help
#families
who have been victims of the massacre perpetrated by
#Hamas
on October 7 in the Israeli communities between
#Israel
and the
#GazaStrip
. Donations will go to various registered charities.
📷 Honored to have received a group of priests in charge of coordinating the Salesian Vocational Educational & Training (VET) in
#Italy
. It was an occasion to exchange on the
@ComeceEu
mission of
#dialogue
with
#EU
institutions +Catholic contribution to
#EUintegration
.
#education