With the headline “Hands that knead hope,” the Vatican newspaper’s most prominent front-page article on April 25 was devoted to a small Afghan all-women confectionery company that operates in defiance of the Taliban.
With the headline “Only mud and rust,” the Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its November 16 edition to the devastating effects of a recent tropical storm in Honduras.
The Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its October 25 edition to the work of Indian entrepreneur Naman Gupta, whose factory uses recycled cigarette butts as stuffing for toys and pillows.
Two years to the day after the 2020 Beirut explosion left 218 dead, caused $15 billion in property damage, and displaced 300,000 people, L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its August 4 edition to the continued crisis in Lebanon.
With the headline “A planet split in half,” L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 9 edition to “the devastation of climate change, between floods and drought.