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by bcadmin | Jun 22, 2022 | Caritas Italy, Cei, Church in Europe, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
In just a few days’ time, Bishop Francesco Savino, a leading figure in the Italian Bishops’ Conference, will travel to the Italian city of Odessa to bring humanitarian aid and to push for an end to the war.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Afghanistan, Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Italy, Church in Europe, lead, News, Refugees, Taliban | 0 |
Over the past two weeks, the Italian government has evacuated nearly 5,000 Afghans after the Taliban’s lighting-takeover of Kabul, and the Catholic Church is among the chief actors in helping them get settled.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | Afghanistan, Caritas Italy, Jesuits, Kabul, News, Taliban, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2021 | Afghanistan, Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Jesuits, News | 0 |
Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 28, 2021 | Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Parish, diocesan and national Catholic charities help the Catholic Church live the Gospel by being a “church of tenderness and closeness where the poor are blessed, where mission is at the center and where joy is born of service,” Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, News, Rome, Vaccinations | 0 |
More than 700,000 foreigners in Italy are “invisible” in the eyes of the country’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign and are being denied legal access to the vaccines, warned a top public official.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 10, 2021 | Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Rome, News, Red Cross | 0 |
In an effort to provide immediate shelter and aid to people living on the street in Rome while also trying to curb the spread of coronavirus, the diocesan Caritas and the Italian Red Cross have started operating a testing and temporary holding center for new arrivals before they go on to regular shelters.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 20, 2020 | Archdiocese of Milan, Associated Press, Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, Lombardy, Milan, News, Poverty | 0 |
The charity serving more than 5 million people in the Milan archdiocese, Caritas Ambrosiana, says the pandemic is revealing for the first time the depths of economic insecurity in Italy’s northern Lombardy region, which generates 20 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2020 | arms trade, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Italy, News, Saudi Arabia, War, Yemen | 0 |
Cheese, prosthetics and hydrogen generators for cars are some of the products local activists are proposing for the possible conversion of an arms factory in Italy’s southern Sardinia region if a government ban on bomb exports to Saudi Arabia continues.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2020 | Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Rome, Italy, News, Rome | 0 |
A Caritas shelter located in Rome’s Termini train station suspended activities after nearly half of its residents tested positive for COVID-19.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2020 | Bergamo, Caritas, Caritas Italy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Italian bishops, Italian Episcopal Conference, News | 0 |
Staff at the Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo — once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy — announced they had no more patients with coronavirus in their intensive care unit.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 23, 2020 | Caritas Italy, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italy, lead, News, Poverty | 0 |
In Italy, Church leaders at both the national and local levels are knee-deep in conceiving a plan of action for the so-called “phase 2” of recovery from the COVID-19 coronavirus will look like, including the Vatican, with specific focus on restarting regular liturgical life and fighting poverty.
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