Future of Europe Conference: second Citizens’ Panel meeting (democracy, rights, security). From priorities to proposals

Austria: plenary assembly of the bishops, visit ad Limina and climate on the agenda. Concern about the assisted suicide law

Pope in Assisi: “It is time that the poor be given back their voice”

Pope Francis has returned to Assisi for the fifth time to “”embrace” 550 poor people from all over Europe. The…

Romania: fourth wave rips through the country. International aid insufficient

Healthcare system in crisis, low vaccination rates, lockdown: infection and deaths are rising in Bucharest and across the country. Bishop…

Iraq: Card. Sako (Patriarch), “they want to plunge the country into chaos for partisan interests.” Uncertainties over Al-Tayyeb’s visit

Chaldean Patriarch Card. Louis Raphael Sako, interviewed by SIR, describes the situation in the country after the recent attempted assassination…

Netherlands: surge in Covid-19 infections. Government to agree measures today, Bishops reintroducing restrictions

EU Parliament: “ensuring full access to safe, legal and free abortion services to all women” in Poland.

EU Commission: Gentiloni points out five key factors for EU economy. Concerns about surging energy prices

Belarus-Poland: COMECE to the EU, “instrumentalising the despair of migrants has severe and harming human consequences and must be prevented”

EU Commission: Gentiloni, “EU economy set to expand, but risks” related to pandemic and global uncertainties remain

Msgr. Grušas (CCEE): “Migrants used as human shields. This is a hybrid attack on border integrity”

“They are not just migrants and refugees. They are persons used instrumentally by a governing regime. Trafficked for political purposes…