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Faithful members of the Fraternité Saint-Barthélemy walk along the seafront promenade during Good Friday, as part of the Easter celebrations, in Bonifacio, Corsica, March 29, 2024. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP This Sunday, December 15, Pope Francis is attending a symposium on “popular religiosity” in Ajaccio, Corsica, organized at the initiative of local cardinal and bishop François Bustillo. This is a theme dear to the pontiff, who placed it at the heart of his latest encyclical, He loved us (“he loved us,” in Latin), published on October 24. Corsica appears to be a particularly rich laboratory for the study of this…

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“Meteorites are sold.” The sign, hand-painted in lurid colors, rests on a two-meter-long table covered in stones that are advertised as having arrived from outer space. There are rocks that made a trip of almost 55 million kilometers, from Mars, before landing at the International Fair of Minerals, Fossils and Meteorites that was held at the Chamartín station, Madrid, this weekend. More than 30 exhibitors from Spain and other countries – Brazil, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Czech Republic – have participated in the event, which already has 41 editions and which, between this Friday and Saturday, attracted more than 2,000 people,…

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The commissioner of the ‘Koldo case’ testifies today in the Supreme Court as a defendant, after having promised to prove the incriminations against members of the Government that he pointed out in the National Court Read Aldama’s third round, 25 days after his "invented": only three of his 10 accusations remain without documentation or evidence

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This photo plays with history: Markus Söder had himself photographed kneeling in Warsaw on Wednesday – almost like Willy Brandt once did. Shortly afterwards, the CSU boss posted a photo with a bratwurst. Politicians from the SPD and the Greens find this tasteless.CSU boss Markus Söder is clearly criticized for his kneeling in Warsaw. “This is one of the greatest bad tastes that I have experienced from a German politician in recent years,” said former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück (SPD) on Sunday evening on the ARD program “Miosga”.A few days ago, Söder knelt in front of the monument to the…

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Pope Francis made history on Sunday with the first-ever papal visit to Corsica. He urged local priests to resist spiritual groups that fuel political divisions and championed a “dynamic” form of secularism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean island from secular France as a bridge between religious and civic society. Pope Francis calls for unity and 'dynamic' secularism in first visit to Corsica

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Rescue workers, including reinforcements hustled in from France, rushed to deal with widespread damage from Cyclone Chido on the French Indian Ocean island territory of Mayotte on Sunday. The territory’s prefect, Francois-Xavier Bieuville, warned on local media that the numbers of casualties seemed sure to be high. “I think there will certainly be several hundreds, maybe we will reach a thousand, even several thousands,” Bieuville said on local channel Mayotte La 1ere. Officials warned it could take time, or prove difficult, to ascertain how many had diedImage: Etat Major des Armées via AP/picture alliance The French Interior Ministry, meanwhile, warned “it will…

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Ireland sent over one million tonnes of waste abroad in 2022 because it lacked the capacity to treat it here, and the amount of waste generated each year in the country has grown by over 20% in the last decade. Publishing the latest statistics, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that Ireland’s recycling rate has not improved over the last 10 years and that it is time to move away from a “wasteful linear economy”. “Current measures to prevent waste, to promote reuse and to encourage recycling are not enough to meet mandatory municipal waste and plastic packaging targets,” the…

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