Migration: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) strengthens its activities in the Mediterranean. Support to Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Malta

Latvia: National Alliance, proposal to “recognise the family as the union of a man and a woman”. Mr Barbut (FAFCE), “go forward in this direction”

Eurostat: over 40% of plastic packaging recycled in Europe. Record-breaking numbers in Lithuania, Malta last on the list. Italy above EU average

Violence at Capitol Hill. Pearce (Fordham University): “It all began in November 2016”

“What happened at Capitol Hill on January 6 may not have been unexpected, but I must admit that I dread…

Shocking report on unmarried mothers in Ireland. President of Catholic bishops: “the Church was clearly part of that culture. I apologise.”

A shocking report on institutions where unmarried mothers and children were taken in from 1920 to 1998 was released yesterday.…

Pope Francis: audience, “giving praise is like breathing pure oxygen”, we must do it “above all in moments of darkness”

Pope Francis: audience, “in the future of the world and in the hopes of the Church there are the little ones”

Graglia (Uni. Milan): “The pandemic might bolster the progress of united Europe”

“I think the European response proved effective in terms of scope, breadth and incisiveness. Rather, it evidenced the slowdown caused…

United Kingdom: the last hours alive for “R.S.”, a comatose patient. Stroilov (Christian Concern), “the way the legal system permits euthanasia”

Spiritus Domini. De Nicola (sociologist): “A fair blow to the glass ceiling”

“In the new Motu Proprio, Francis restores women’s role in the service at the altar. No one can be excluded…

Austria: Mgr. Glettler (Innsbruck), “our country should receive 100 refugee families from the island of Lesbos without ifs and buts”