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The property of missing persons is not only a home acquired, like for most Colombians, with much effort. For relatives of missing persons, this is the place where they have waited for the return of their loved one for years.

In his encyclical, Pope Francis makes an invitation to seek other ways of understanding the economy and progress, to explore a new vision of development that respects our house and allows believers and non believers to live in equality.

According to Forensic Medicine, of the 50,707 case of domestic partner violence registered in 2016, 86% were for violence against women, violence that in many cases ended in femicides.

Francis has a powerful message of unity, not only for Catholics, but for all; a message based on a simple, basic morality of brotherhood, solidarity and respect.

To take seriously the visit of Pope Francis is to take seriously his message on the environment. The central idea of ​​Francis' ecological encyclical is as simple as it is conclusive: everything is interconnected.

Why let the United States continue to pressure the government to deal harshly with communities that plant coca, if the problem lies in the ban promoted by the U.S. and delays in rural development in Colombia?

The Church should abandon its moral superiority and open the mind and heart to see the daily discriminatory acts against the LGBTI community around the world.

We do not really know how many cases the justice system receives and solves every year. We also do not know how many civil, labor or family cases are registered, nor how many cases of certain behaviors like domestic violence are processed in the country. And no one seems to care about the absence of reliable information.

After having beaten its competitors and almost all other species, today humanity's main enemy is itself.

We cannot ignore the rise of artificial intelligence. In the next 10-20 years, about half of paid work will be at risk. How to adapt education and employment accordingly?

In Colombia, climate change and risk mitigation issues do not escape the political struggles in which almost all the issues on the national agenda end up. It is common to see how public policies approaches do not respond to the need of the territories.

The backwardness of Cartagena's social welfare has much of its roots in corruption and the successive institutional crises that it has produced. Except for honorable exceptions, clientelism has been the governance model, which includes bribing oversight authorities to guarantee impunity.