The European Commission unveiled on Tuesday a plan to ensure that the majority of the EU population who qualify for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings are offered such checking by 2025. Nearly €100m in total would be made available to help EU countries implement the new recommendations, which include extending the age target-groups, and […]
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Belgian bishops on Tuesday published a document allowing the blessing of same-sex unions, Reuters reported. The text suggested a ritual including prayers and a benediction for stable same-sex union, but specifying that it is not what the church considers “sacramental marriage”. The Vatican previously refused to give religious approval to same-sex marriage in the church, although […]
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Referendums organized by Moscow in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions will have no effect, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday, after Russian-backed officials announced the plans. “The Russians can do whatever they want. It will not change anything,” Kuleba told reporters in New York, according to Reuters. “Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories […]
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Swedish minister for European affairs Hans Dahlgren told EUobserver no decision can be expected on majority vote next year. Mikuláš Bek, the Czech minister for European affairs, said enlargement and changes to the decision-making are politically interlinked.
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) An estimated 1.3 million people die from cancer each year, including 6000 children, while the medical and financial consequences for those who survive are huge. The European Commission has hailed its new strategy as a step forward in addressing cancer, an illness that affects millions of Europeans and their families. The plan […]
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By Fr. Alexander Schmemann On the occasion of Father Polsky’s book The Canonical Position of the Supreme Church Authority in the USSR and Abroad The only way out of all these difficulties could and can be the joint settlement with the entire Ecumenical Church of the issue of the church life of the Orthodox diaspora. […]
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Inmates receiving the training.© UNODC Mexico City, 20 September 2022 – At first, prisoners may be elated upon their release from behind bars. Finally, they are free to earn a living, socialize with friends, or enjoy a family meal again. In reality, however, former prisoners face various challenges after they complete their sentences. Discrimination, […]
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Erdogan has positioned himself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia and hosted preliminary peace talks in Istanbul in March.
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The Ukrainian military has not declared victory yet in Bilohorivka, given that control over towns has proved tenuous in the past. Reclaiming it would signal that Russia no longer has full control of the Luhansk region.
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