#Prison

Way of the Cross 2020: meditations written in Padua’s correctional facility. Fr Marco Pozza: “Hope dwells even in the depths of suffering”

Fourteen stations, fourteen stories intertwined with the lives of the people there, prison police officers, prison educators, volunteers, those who…

Spain: data on prison pastoral care. 164 chaplains, almost 3,000 volunteers, 900 programmes in place. Liturgies and solidarity behind bars

Austria: Advent, bishops busy with prison visits

Great Britain: the Bishops about prison reform, “essential for the victims to be involved”

Great Britain: Bishops’ document about prison reform

An ex-convict made priest: the story of Gabirel Everardo Zul Mejía in the Mexican prison of Apodaca

He asked that priestly ordination be celebrated not in the cathedral, as for ten of his seminary companions, but inside…

Council of Europe: over two million boys and girls have a parent in prison. “Protecting inmates’ children’s rights and interests”

Abolition of capital punishment, a bumpy road: cancelled in 102 Countries, upheld in the US, while Turkey and the Philippines are demanding its adoption

A growing number of world Countries have completely abolished it and the UN continues to call for a universal moratorium…

The respect of the human dignity of prisoners is the gauge of our civilization

On the Jubilee Day dedicated to prisoners Pope Francis proposed a change of paradigm by highlighting the centrality of human…

Pope Francis: message to participants in European Prison Chaplains’ Meeting in Strasbourg

A more humane justice requires openness to the culture of forgiveness

In his Message for the World Day of Peace 2016 Pope Francis dedicated a special thought to those detained, first…