Eurostat: NEET, more than one in ten young Europeans are neither employed nor studying. The Netherlands are doing well, Romania and Italy are doing badly

War in Ukraine and Pentecost. COMECE and CEC: “May the Spirit of God enlighten the minds of those who seek violence”

May the Pentecost message “enlighten the minds of those who seek violence” and “inspire those bearing political responsibility in Europe,…

Floods in Emilia Romagna. Card. Zuppi: “Earmarked sums must be delivered immediately”

The floods in Emilia Romagna, the war in Ukraine, the issue of abuse, ‘Eight per thousand’ taxpayer contributions: these were…

Romania: Catholics and Jews sign Kishreinu, “sign of long friendship, based on appreciation and mutual respect”

United Kingdom: mgr. McAleenan against the “Illegal Migration Bill”. The refugee policy “must give priority to people’s dignity”

Pope Francis: “overly self-referential parish churches”, no to forms of “defensive neo-clericalism”

Pope Francis received in audience the diocesan representatives of Italy’s Synodal Path at the conclusion of the Assembly of the…

Sudan: ceasefire fails to hold. Cavalletti (Caritas): “Rampant violence and looting. Hundreds of thousands of refugees on South Sudan border need humanitarian aid”

The one-week ceasefire agreed on May 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, failed to hold. Violent clashes and airstrikes resumed in…

EU Commission: Dombrovskis, “energy and inflation are still major economic challenges. Prudent fiscal policies and investments needed”

Family life: FAFCE, the Art Contest “Who is St Joseph for me?” makes it to the European Parliament

Pope at audience: “I offer my closeness to our brothers and sisters in China”

Pope Francis devoted today’s general audience to St Andrew Kim, Korea’s first martyr and priest. He expressed his “closeness” to…

Card. Zuppi: “War is a pandemic, it involves us all.”

“We are the people of peace,” Card. Matteo Zuppi reassured the Pope, who tasked him with a peace mission in…