Category: The European Times

Officials in Nigeria have discovered an illegal connecting line to one of its major offshore oil export terminals that had been operating unnoticed for nine years, the head of the country’s state oil company NNPC LTD said, Reuters reported. The link, which is 4 kilometers long, from the Forcados export terminal, which normally exports about […]

Russian Patriarch Kirill sent a “circular letter” to all dioceses in the Moscow Patriarchate to offer two-day prayers for the health of Vladimir Putin. The first day of prayer is the Russian president’s birthday, October 7, when he turns 70. Prayers for Putin’s health will continue the following day, October 8, when St. Sergius of […]

“Various manifestations of psychological and physical violence against women are considered absolutely unacceptable and condemnable by Holy Scripture, our church tradition, and Christian morality in general. This is because it is impossible for violence to coexist with love, since in violence lies malice, selfishness, the shadow of death, and in love – the light of […]

The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria accepted the request of the chief prosecutor and canceled a text in the Criminal Code, the first edition of which was from 1975.  Begging and prostitution are no longer a crime after in the end of September the Constitutional Court annulled the text of the Penal Code that refers to […]

The campaign to return the sculptures to Athens has been going on since 1983, and for almost 40 years now the topic has been raised by Greece in a number of international forums, as well as in bilateral relations with London British Prime Minister Liz Truss gave a negative answer to a question about the […]

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union launched the COMECE Youth Net on Wednesday 5 October 2022. “This new consultative body – states Cardinal Hollerich – will promote the concrete participation of young European Catholics in shaping EU policies”. Stemming from the success of the two COMECE Catholic Youth Conventions on the […]

Did you know that Africa has the highest suicide rate in the world? To reverse that worrying statistic, the UN health agency WHO on Thursday launched a social media campaign to raise awareness around mental health illness, which is believed to account for up to 11 per cent of the risk factors that are associated with […]

Drugs: European Youth – Currently, in this year 2022, the European population in the 27 Member States is about 447 million of inhabitants (INSEE) and among them nearly 108 million people are in schools (Eurostat), enrolled in institutions ranging from early childhood care to higher education. This pool of scholarized people are representing for the […]

The Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle is once again making presentations at the annual Human Dimension meetings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as it has done since 2006. Each year, the Order sends a delegation to the OSCE; this year, the delegation was represented by Archon Franklin (Rocky) Sisson, Jr., Archon […]

Amid mounting health emergencies globally – such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related crises, and the war in Ukraine – the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday announced an initiative to strengthen rapid response.