In the Vatican Press release, the arduous situation of maritime workers is highlighted with reference to the dangers of exploitation and abuse that they face.
In the video the pontiff urges prayers for those who face “abandonment in distant ports…forced labour” and “industrial fishing and contamination.”
GENOA - Two years after the horrific collapse of the famous Morandi bridge, Renzo Piano’s newly designed structure was inaugurated in a moving ceremony.
The Italian President, Sergio Matarella, and Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, were in attendance as tributes were paid to the 43 victims of the disaster on August 14 2018.
VATICAN CITY – The former Pope Benedict, 93, is in a fragile state of health with a facial infection called erysipelas, reports Corriere della Sera.
Benedict’s biographer, Peter Seewald, is said to have visited the pope emeritus in the Vatican on Saturday to show him the recently published biography.
According to German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, Seewald described the pontiff as nonetheless “optimistic” and indicated the “possibility that he might put pen to paper again when he has recuperated.”
ROME – Increase the tax burden to reduce public debt or decrease the tax rates to boost the economy? This is the question that political forces have been asking themselves in recent years and it still arises without an answer.
Whatever the answer and from whatever the angle you look at the question, the goal that governments have succeeded in has been to make Italy and its economic system attractive to foreign residents so to increase both directly and indirectly, the tax revenues generated by them.
ROME –- Train companies in Italy have scrambled to address the reintroduction of social distancing on all trains announced on Saturday by the Ministry for Health.
According to the previous guidelines, set on 15 July, social distancing had not been necessary on both high-speed trains and other specific journeys. The change has meant a reduction of the capacity on Italy’s high-speed trains from 100 to 50 per cent, causing chaos, as reported in Corriere della Sera.
VATICAN CITY –- On Sunday Pope Francis used the parable of the feeding of the 5,000 to give a lesson of compassion and generosity in the times of pandemic, speaking in his first August Angelus
Expanding on the famous Biblical tale, the pontiff said, “Compassion is not a purely material feeling; true compassion is to suffer alongside, to take others’ sorrow on ourselves.” He continued, asking those in attendance to ask themselves “Do I feel compassion when I read news about war, about hunger, about the pandemic?”
ROME -- The Catholic charity, Comunità di Sant’Egidio, are running a holiday throughout August for the 15,900 refugees living in Lesbos.
A large number of the refugees in Lesbos are unaccompanied minors and they are all asylum-seekers or waiting for relocation. The number of refugees is almost twice that of last year, living in precarious conditions which have been worsened by the coronavirus lockdown.
HELSINKI -- The current restrictions in Finland, introduced to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, were lifted on Saturday; however, the government and authorities stress that they are closely monitoring the situation and will make new decisions as needed.
