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

EU Commission: recommendations about Covid. Kyriakides, “the holidays will be different so as not to jeopardise the efforts made in the last few weeks”

Pope at audience: “We are more important to God than all of the sins that we can commit”

Pope Francis devoted today’s general audience to the prayer of Blessing. The Holy Father called on the faithful to be…

Ireland: Diocese of Dublin, online donations to ensure families have food on the table this Christmas. 100 places for the homeless

EU Commission: 8.5 billion euros to five States to protect workers. Subsidies to Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia

“In Limbo”, the human cost of Brexit. The voices of people paying the price of UK divorce from the EU

While the impact of Covid-19 and economic downturn weigh heavily on the UK, with the government struggling to respond to…