EU: Economic and Social Committee (EESC), study on “new trends in the development of volunteering in the European Union

EU Commission: 30 million in support of Belarusian people. Von der Leyen, “commitment to freedom and democracy”.

EU Parliament: plenary meeting to discuss Russian military threat to Ukraine. Legal proposal to stop gender-based cyber-violence

Tornadoes in the USA: the city of Mayfield, Kentucky, razed to the ground. Caritas relief efforts and solidarity

Deaths. Rubble. Trees ripped from the ground. Buildings razed. Windows, rooftops torn off, doors swept away and reduced to rubble.…

Africa. Fr Carraro ( CUAMM): “The latest challenge is to ensure continued support to mothers and children and enhance health workers’ skills”

The Padua-based NGO’s new project will involve 14 hospitals in 8 countries. “Human capital is the greatest asset,” the director…

European Catholic Social Days: March 17-20 2022 in Bratislava “to highlight Christians’ vitality in Europe and their efforts for a future of solidarity”

Conference on the Future of Europe: 200 citizens in Florence to define recommendations on democracy and rights

Upcoming elections in Hungary. But Europe has pushed ‘illiberal democracy’ further away

General elections are due to be held in the country ruled by nationalist PM Viktor Orban next spring. Conservative mayor…

Germany: mgr. Batzing (German Bishops), “I wish Chancellor Scholtz and his government all the best and God’s blessings”

Forgotten conflicts. Caritas: Twenty-one high-intensity wars in the world. Only one in two youths is aware of them

“False Balances”, the Report on inequalities and forgotten conflicts in the world, drawn up by Caritas Italy in partnership with…

Father Eduardo, the Franciscan friar interpreter of the Pope in Cyprus and Greece: “Like a grandfather with his grandson”

We saw him at the side of Pope Francis virtually every moment of the apostolic journey to Cyprus and Greece,…