On Thursday, 21st March 2019, the Holy Father Francis received in audience Her Excellency Mrs Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, president of Malta, who subsequently met with His Eminence Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by the Rev. Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, under-secretary for Relations with States.

During the cordial discussions, the parties evoked the constructive relations that unite the Holy See and the Republic of Malta, and the collaboration between Church and State in favour of the human, social, cultural and spiritual progress of the population, in particular, the young, in the light of the centuries-long contribution that Catholicism has offered the country…

F’għeluq it-tielet sena mill-mewt tal‑Arċisqof Emeritu Ġużeppi Mercieca, illum il-Ħamis, 21 ta’ Marzu, l‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa b’suffraġju għal ruħ Mons. Mercieca.

Il-Quddiesa ser issir fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina u tibda fis-6pm.

L‑Arċisqof Mercieca miet fil‑21 ta’ Marzu 2016 fl‑età ta’ 87 sena. L‑Insara huma mistiedna jattendu għal din il-Quddiesa u jkomplu jitolbu għalih…

A group of 18 scientists and bioethicists have called for a global moratorium on the practice of editing human genes until an “international framework” is in place to ensure that ethical standards are maintained.

The international group of scientists, in a March 13 editorial for the journal Nature, called for a “fixed period during which no clinical uses of germline editing whatsoever are allowed” until an “international framework” is agreed upon which would take into account ethical questions involved in gene editing…