"Alarming" indifference to the suffering of vulnerable - President

Newspapers and social media feeds are awash with stories of inequality, but this hasn’t led people to care any further about other people’s problems, President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca said this afternoon.The “general state of indifference….to the struggles of the vulnerable” was all the more alarming when compared to the abundance of information available, she noted.“We must speak a message of peace that challenges the misinformation and prejudice threatening our world,” President Coleiro-Preca said. “Our counter-narratives must dissuade violence, while promoting practical effective and long-term solutions.”President Coleiro-Preca was speaking at a Global Forum organised by the UN Alliance of Civilisations being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.The Alliance of Civilisations was formed in 2006 to galvanize international action against extremism. It places particular emphasis on defusing tensions between the Western and Islamic worlds.The President argued that the “atmosphere of fear” bred by extremism and fear required nations to strive for “resilient” societies which fostered a “culture of peace”. “It is only by striving towards a culture of peace…that we can truly hope to effect a...