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EID MUBARAK! HAPPY RAMADAN! Ramadan is a very important  period in the life of a Muslim.  It is considered one of the holiest Islamic months.  It's also one of the  Five Pillars of Islam, t hese are five principles which Muslims believe are compulsory acts ordered by God.  The most visible and well-known part of Ramadan is that they cannot eat or drink or have sex from sunrise to sunset. But Ramadan is much more than fasting. It is a time of purification, prayer and meditation, it is a time in which the population lives in a different way, interacts in a different way and faces a penance that is sometimes hard to fulfill. However, this Ramadan is different from any other. Across the Muslim world, these perplexing times have been made worse by the severe economic impact of the pandemic. Furthermore, the constant wars in conflict-dominated countries that cause millions of Muslims to be displaced from their homes has compounded the suffering of this culture. Their ...

With the social and economic situation that the Colombian government is experiencing in these times, we have seen how social networks have become the # 1 channel of information in the young and adult population. Videos, images and audios of acts of violence have been disseminated through all accounts and social networks. I was discussing the other day with my father about a video that I watched and I gave him my opinion, to which he replied that it was not what happened that in everything had started for another reason and he showed me a video of which I did not know existed and it was the same video that I saw although it showed more content and the other part of the story, so it helped me to reestructure my perspective on the story. However, a few days later we saw in an Instagram post the "true" version of what had happened and they attached a video that was even much longer than the one my dad had seen and gave us a bigger panorama of the situation and completely changed ...