Pope Francis: audience, “to emerge from a pandemic, we need to look after and care for each other”. “Do not cast the elderly aside”. “Contemplation” is the “vaccine”

Pope Francis: audience, “exploiting creation: this is the sin”. “We become predators”

Sweden: growing religious intolerance. The Churches: “Full solidarity with Muslims in our Country”

Copies of the Koran burned in public squares, riots and clashes in the streets, racist rhetoric, episodes of xenophobia. Winds…

Lesvos: Caritas Hellas, 11,000 people lacking shelter and first relocations. New camp being developed amidst high tension

Seven Caritas Hellas workers are operating in Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island. They ensured the distribution of water bottles…

Pope Francis: audience, among the banners also one saying “venimos de la periferia”

Day of Democracy: Daems (Council of Europe), “strengthen links between citizens and institutions”

UK: Card. Nichols (primate) remembering Pope Benedict XVI’s visit. “He changed the perception of the Catholic Church in the country”

UK: 10th anniversary since Benedict XVI’s visit, online release of 23 speeches delivered by Pope, Queen Elizabeth and other religious leaders

Germany: General Assembly of the Bishops’ Conference. The effects of the pandemic on the life of the Church and the Synodal Path

Deadly wildfires on the West Coast. Churches are shelters for the displaced

The air is unbreathable, the sky is red, with ash-covered roofs and roads from the wildfires that burnt some 3…

Protests in Belarus. Msgr. Aliaksander Yasheuski (Mogilev): “Only dialogue will save us”

“The protests ongoing in Belarus are peaceful. They are not violent. The whole world is looking at us and admiring…