EU Commission: agreement and funding to “strengthen Africa CDC’s ability to respond to threats against public health”

Christmas Mass. Don Tomatis (FTIS): “Albeit somewhat less adorned, it will be a true Christmas”. Celebrations can begin as early as 7 p.m.

“Simple people’s bewilderment, as they shake their heads over the fact that this year Jesus must be ‘born earlier’ (how…

Germany: Mgr. Neher (Caritas), “Syria is not a country people can be sent back to; situation there is catastrophic”

Europe. Coronavirus: Advent online but not “virtual”

Christmas season traditions are being reshaped because of the pandemic. Nevertheless, Europe as a whole is marked by the willingness…

Germany: COVID-19 crisis in two female Franciscan monasteries

Right of asylum: fewer arrivals in Europe and Italy also due to pandemic. Migrantes: “Pretexts to enact defensive measures”

The lockdown imposed during the “first wave” of Covid-19 in Italy has slowed down asylum applications, with some 16,855 applications…

Syria. Card. Zenari (Nuncio): “The people are growing desperate and poor. Forty thousand poor treated in open hospitals”

Card. Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio, returned on the subject of Syria in a video interview with the AVSI Foundation, scientific…

Covid-19 and Advent. Don Paolo Mulas (chaplain in Sassari): “Close to patients needing care and love as God who comes to us as a newborn child”

To be always there for them.  The sick  “don’t need to be pitied, they need to know that they are…

Giscard d’Estaing: a tribute from Sassoli, Michel and Von der Leyen. “A great European who will keep inspiring us”

Christmas. Italian Bishops’ Conference: “Night time Holy Mass consistent with lockdown schedule”

Evening Holy Mass must comply with the “curfew” schedule. The Italian bishops put forward a set of proposals in the…

EU Commission: COVID recommendations. Extend school holidays. Mass, use of masks “recommended”, avoid choirs