PILGRIMAGES AND COVID —
A journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem waiting for the pilgrims to return, amidst closed businesses and empty hotels, as the…
BELARUS-POLAND BORDER CRISIS —
Caritas is providing humanitarian assistance on the Polish side of the border through four “Tents of Hope” and local parishes.…
APPEAL —
“Regardless of whether they qualify for asylum in Europe or whether they should return to their countries of origin, we…
PAUL VI HALL —
At Wednesday’s general audience Pope Francis began a new cycle of catechesis in Paul VI Hall on the figure of…
POLITICAL SURVEY —
A survey conducted by the Fondation pour l’innovation politique (Fondapol) measuring voters’ political self-positioning in four major West European countries…
CELAM —
“It will be the Assembly of the ‘inverted pyramid’, it all starts and ends with the people of God.” Msgr.…
SYNODAL JOURNEY AMID THE "STORM" OF ABUSE —
“We have lost credibility. People have lost confidence in the Church, in priests, in bishops. Not only do people find…
SYNODAL JOURNEY IN THE "PERIPHERIES" OF THE WORLD —
“At this time of hardships and pain, the Church in Myanmar is transforming Catholic major seminaries, houses of spiritual retreat…
WORLD DAY OF THE POOR —
Pope Francis has returned to Assisi for the fifth time to “”embrace” 550 poor people from all over Europe. The…
COVID-19 IN EUROPE/1 —
Healthcare system in crisis, low vaccination rates, lockdown: infection and deaths are rising in Bucharest and across the country. Bishop…
MIDDLE EAST —
Chaldean Patriarch Card. Louis Raphael Sako, interviewed by SIR, describes the situation in the country after the recent attempted assassination…
MIGRANTS AT THE BELARUSIAN-POLISH BORDER —
“They are not just migrants and refugees. They are persons used instrumentally by a governing regime. Trafficked for political purposes…