A seventy-page document, signed by Romanian MEP Cristian Dan Preda and named “Yearly Report on human rights and democracy in the world in 2014 and related EU policies”. A text approved today, before closing the plenary meeting of the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, which deals with breaches of human rights in the world. But one of the most controversial points, which divided the floor and the political groups, was the one at number 114, about surrogate motherhood…

Pope Francis will on Friday open a Holy Door at a newly refurbished homeless centre run by the Church near Rome’s main train station. Lydia O’Kane went along to see the newly completed project which offers a bed, a meal and ray of hope to hundreds of people every night.

As you arrive at the Holy Door of the Caritas centre for the homeless at Rome’s Termini Station you can’t fail to notice the mosaic logo of the Year of Mercy depicting Jesus the Good Shepherd by Marko Ivan Rupnik. The door will be opened by Pope Francis on December 18th and he will also have the chance to see for himself the newly refurbished night hostel and canteen which are named after Caritas Rome founder Don Luigi Di Liegro and Pope Saint John Paul II. Speaking at the inauguration of the new centre which he described as a place of dignity and welcome, the present Director of Caritas Rome, Monsignor Enrico Feroci quoted the words of Don Luigi who said, “a city in which one man suffers less is a better city”…

Nhar il-Ġimgħa 11 ta’ Diċembru 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna iċċelebra Quddiesa fl-okkażjoni tal-Milied għall-impjegati tas-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni Nisranija, fir-‘Russian Chapel’ ġewwa l-palazz tal-President f’San Anton. Dan wara laqgħa li l-istess membri kellhom mal-President ta’ Malta, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, fejn ġew diskussi d-diffikultajiet li jiltaqgħu magħhom l-istess membri fl-iskejjel.  

Matul l-omelija, l-Arċisqof saħaq dwar ir-rwol importanti tal-edukatur u l-importanza tal-edukazzjoni filwaqt li tenna l-kliem ta’ Sidna Ġesu Kristu dwar l-importanza tal-għożża għal dawn it-tfal…

World leaders have hailed the climate change agreement they struck in Paris at the weekend as historic, while some environmentalists have warned the deal does not go far enough to curb the effects of global warming on our planet. Financial analysts meanwhile have described the summit’s outcome as the most important climate agreement since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, saying it will boost the world’s low carbon-emissions economy…

Pope Francis says the Church must be humble, poor and trusting in the Lord. Speaking during Mass at Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday morning the Pope emphasized the fact that poverty is the first of the Beatitudes, and that the poor are the Church’s true riches.

Commenting on the first reading from the Book of Zephaniah in which Jesus rebukes the chief priests and warns them that even prostitutes will precede them into the Kingdom of Heaven, Pope Francis said that still today temptations can corrupt the witness of the church…