Many are working for peace in the ongoing conflicts, and feasible compromises should be achievable, because everybody is tired of war. But will any ceasefires last?

“The lovers’ faith is like the Arabian phoenix — everyone says it exists, no one knows where,” the Italian poet Metastasio sang, in verses that come back to mind whenever one thinks of peace. Or rather, we should talk of “peaces,” needed to end the senseless “Third World War in pieces,” as Pope Francis called it, which is bleeding a good part of the world.

For us Italians, the restoration of a state of peace — or at least of a truce that, even without the name of peace, would in fact produce all its effects — carries perhaps greater importance than it does in other European countries.

This is so because our political commitments and our country’s geography force us to feel engaged on two fronts at once: to the northeast of the continent, because of our NATO commitments, and to the southeast, because a strongly Mediterranean nation cannot disregard what.

The trial of Karekin II, the Catholicos of Armenia, is part of the government’s efforts to shift its position and break away from its pro-Russian stance.

On August 7, the trial of Karekin II, the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, began. He and six other high members of the Supreme Council are accused of obstructing the ruling of a civil court that restored the episcopal office to Bishop Gevorg Saroyan.

The trial, which could result in a two-year prison sentence, was immediately suspended, however, following the resignation of Judge Hakob Manukian, who cited a potential conflict of interest. This is a sensational development. It is the first time in the 17-century-spanning history of the Church, which has always been one of the cornerstones of Armenian identity, that such a “disturbing and unacceptable” event has occurred, as described by the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.

All opposition members of parliament turned out to support the Catholicos, along with thousands of people. Upon returning to the episcopal residence, the hierarch said: “I regretfully note that our.