Eurostat: 34 kg of plastic packaging waste per capita per year. Less than half is recycled

Sudan: Borrell (EU) condemns military coup. “Avoid violence, return to democratic path”. Possible withdrawal of EU funds in retaliation

Bulgaria: Covid, record number of infections, deaths rise, hospitals collapse. New restrictive measures, but only 20% are fully vaccinated

Pope at audience: “The Church is not a dense mass of rules and regulations”

Pope Francis continued his cycle of catechesis on the Letter to the Galatians, dwelling on the “fruits” of the Holy…

Visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States: “Dialogue is the most effective means to address any challenge”

Visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States. Twelve days and a tight schedule of meetings and receptions in…

Germany: Berlin, ecumenical service for Bundestag installation. “We will pray for you every Sunday”

EU: Commission Report, “for the first time, renewables overtake fossil fuels as main energy source”

Council of Europe: “Can democracy save the environment?”, the World Forum physically back in Strasbourg

The Taliban’s Afghanistan. Piagnerelli (RAI): “The people have been through hardships, they know how to move forward”

The Italian correspondent covered various war zones worldwide but had never been to Afghanistan: “I found it to be less…

Social Week: Zamagni: “The Catholic world is not subjected to anyone’s line of thought”

The President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Stefano Zamagni, among the speakers at the four-day meeting in Taranto,…

Social Week. Msgr. Santoro: “The Church must renew herself by listening to everyone”

Msgr. Santoro delivered the final speech at the Social Week of Italian Catholics with four “conversion and generative paths.” According…