MONTREAL – Occhio ai soldi falsi. A lanciare l’allarme è il Consiglio Canadese del Commercio al Dettaglio (Retail Council of Canada – RCC), che evidenzia un rischio elevato per il significativo aumento della circolazione di banconote false da 20, 50 e 100 dollari, già a partire dallo scorso novembre e soprattutto in questi giorni pre-natalizi in cui lo shopping diventa frenetico…
MONTREAL – Watch out for counterfeit cash. The warning comes from the Retail Council of Canada (RCC), which is raising the alarm over a sharp increase in the circulation of fake $20, $50 and $100 bills, a trend that began last November and has intensified in the pre-Christmas period as holiday shopping reaches a peak.
GAZA – Per il secondo Natale consecutivo, e per la quarta volta dall’inizio del conflitto in Palestina, il cardinale Pierbattista Pizzaballa si è recato a Gaza. Il patriarca latino di Gerusalemme ha fatto visita, per tutto il weekend prenatalizio, alla piccola comunità cattolica della parrocchia della Sacra Famiglia, per esprimere una volta ancora la vicinanza della Chiesa ai cristiani della Striscia (meno di 1.000 su oltre 2 milioni di abitanti), provati da due anni di guerra e costretti a vivere in condizioni molto dure e con prospettive incerte nonostante la tregua in corso…
GAZA – For the second consecutive Christmas, and the fourth time since the beginning of the conflict in Palestine, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa visited Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has been among the small Catholic community of the Holy Family Parish throughout the pre-Christmas weekend, once again expressing the Church’s closeness to the Christians of the Strip (fewer than 1,000 out of over 2 million inhabitants), who have been hard-pressed by two years of war and forced to live in harsh conditions and with uncertain prospects despite the ongoing truce. →
TORONTO – There was a time when the people of Rome were subjected to love advice from a career poet named Ovid. His seduction manual “Art of Love” stirred up such a frenzy in its day, that the pious Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the Black Sea. A harsh sentencing for the erudite poet, over some lurid love advice. How, I wonder, would Augustus have reacted to what today’s Italians are being subjected to on dating reality shows…
