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 | Mourning the Pope 3
Tens of thousands of mourners of all ages and from all nations continue
to gather in St Peter's Square to express their admiration and
affection for Pope John Paul II, who died on Saturday. Many have left flowers, photos, candles and handwritten prayers in the square as tributes, while others offer only tears. More votive offerings arrive with every passing minute. A charismatic figure in life,... see more » | | |  | Nazca's Secrets
A fascinating and mysterious civilisation. A series of incredible geoglyphs, lines crossing the desert for several kilometres long and enormous drawings on the ground – these are the Nazca lines! The Nazca civilisation has left the world more than 1000 years of heritage, a precious heritage partially yet to be discovered and still carefully examined.
For this reason, every year an international... see more » | | |  | Panama, The Country Between
Ever since the coasts were navigated for the first time in 1501 and colonized by Columbus on his fourth trip, Panama has had a very convulsive history. It was the scene of looting by the Spanish, and the greed of the Corsairs as well as being one of the major entrance points of black slaves in America which resulted in all pre-Columbian cultures being displaced and absorbed by the Isthmus.
Scene of... see more » | | |  | The Butteri
“Everybody tells me Maremma Maremma,
but it seems to me it is a sour Maremma,
the bird that goes there looses its feathers. There I lost a dear person…”
This is the beginning of a sad popular song which probably dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. It expresses all the grief of a wife whose husband died from malaria, the greatest cause of mortality among the Butteri.
The Butteri,... see more » | | |  | The Forgotten Warriors
While Phoenix is still sleeping shrouded in the semidarkness, a group of men, women and children are preparing to celebrate a pow-wow on this april sunday. They put on their magnificent traditional outfits, decorated with feathers, jingles and beeds. In Phoenix, Arizona, on the land that is theirs, Indians from all tribes are honouring their deads and their veterans. On the verge of the 60th anniversary... see more » | | |  | The Orthodox Easter
Syros, Archbishop of the Cycladic Islands, commemorates Holy Week,
Megali Evdomada.
Orthodox liturgies lead the people in commemorating the events of Holy
Week, from Christ’s sentencing to the Resurrection. It is a week of
catharsis, preparing worshippers to receive the New Light, a symbolic
victory of life over death, and the Purification of the old world.
From the Sunday before Easter,... see more » | | |  | The Procession Of Mysteries
During Easter holidays there are more than three thousand living shows taking place along the streets of different Italian places. This is a good time to meet people and there are a lot of religious rituals, festivities and sacred representations from the North to the South of the whole peninsula. All these rituals originate from old traditions.
On Good Friday in Procida, it takes place “the Procession... see more » | | |  | The School of Hope
On March 17, 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, where he established the Tibetan government in exile. On May 17, 1960, Thubten Ninji, the Dalai Lama’s emissary, returned from the Jammu encampment with 51 children. The Dalai Lama then established “ the first day-care for refugee children” fully supported by her sister Jetsun Pema since 1964. Eleven years later, this initiative... see more » | | |  | Tibetan Monks Diaspora
The Tibetan Diaspora number is estimated at up to 150,000 refugees...
Based on 11 trips to Dharamsala, India & Tibet between 1999 and 2016. "Tibetan Diaspora Monks" is part of the greater Tibet Land of Exile Project.
Patricio Estay, inspired by his experience as a political exiled and by his meeting with Henri Cartier Bresson in 1986 in Paris, started Tibet Land Of Exile,... see more » | | |
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