Turkey was founded as a secular republic by Ataturk. Its secular tradition lasted for almost a century between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and President Erdogan's transformation of Turkey into a...

More people are experiencing and understanding that the country's successes are meaningful on personal and family levels. The overall performance in Malta and Gozo is felt by everyone, even before we...

News editors have been waxing and waning on the sudden growth in population mainly due to the heavy influx of foreigners lured to vacancies which could not be filled by locals. Apart from xenophobic...

Why isn't the work of an anonymous African sculptor afforded the same prestige as the work of a European artist of whom little is known, assuming both are of equal technical quality? Why is it safe to...

As president of Russia, Vladimir Putin has been playing with fire for quite some time now. His opponents have been wiped out by treacherous tactics on the part of Putin himself and the oligarchs close...

Recently, I was gifted with a little bottle of blessed oil brought from an orthodox monastery in Greece. The aroma of this blessed oil is powerful, profound and, yes,...

Education is the power to eradicate poverty, hunger and disease in Africa. Inspired by this idea we missionaries working in Malindi are doing our best to build schools and pay school fees for poor and...

During the night of 15/16 July, one of those "pseudo-political groupings", as Martin Scicluna defines them, hung around 900 illegal placards on trees, lampposts and even village-feast decorations on...

News about the restoration of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral in Valletta came in the same week that two buildings of historical significance on the perimeter of the Grand Harbour also received media...

Shocking statistic after statistic continues to show us how horribly unhealthy we are, or have become, as a country. We have been told time and time again that, as a country, we are losing the...