EU Parliament: Metsola condemns Iran’s acts of war. “Solidarity with the people of Cyprus”

Pope in Principality of Monaco: Mass in the cathedral on Thursday and prayer in parishes to prepare for Leo XIV’s visit.

Iran’s War in the Middle East. Mgr Lhernould (President of the North African bishops): “Violence does not respond to suffering; it amplifies it”

Mgr Nicolas Lhernould, Archbishop of Tunis and President of the Episcopal Conference of North Africa, comments on the military escalation…

Iran’s attacks in the Gulf. Bishop Berardi: “Closed churches and online Masses, prayer is our most powerful weapon”

Monsignor Aldo Berardi, Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, describes first-hand the tension being experienced by the Catholic communities in Bahrain,…

Eurostat: only one third of women in Parliaments and Governments across the EU

Romania: Oradea, national Catholic media conference. Topic: “Preserving human voices and faces”

EU Commission: new Gender Equality Strategy. Minzatu, “equal chances for women and men”

EU Commission: new Gender Equality Strategy. “At this pace, it would take 50 years to reach equality”

EU Commission: Special Panel on child safety online. Von der Leyen, “making the digital world safer”

War in Iran: Catholic bishops from every continent call for diplomacy and condemn “acceptable” collateral damage

From the Persian Gulf to Australia, from the United States to Latin America, bishops and episcopal conferences on every continent…

Msgr Essayan (Beirut), “Enough of war: Lebanon again plunged into tension and into displacement crisis”

Beirut is once again living through the nightmare of conflict: rising numbers of displaced persons, families without safe shelter, traumatised…