Migrants are suffering from “the predominance of economic interests
over the human person”, denounces Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva Ivan Jurkovič
Migrants and refugees often arrive in the UK traumatised by the lives they’ve left behind and by the dangerous journeys they’ve had to endure to reach some semblance of safety.
Tension is high on the Greek island of Lesbos with thousands of migrants sleeping rough after last week’s refugee centre fires and local residents worried about coronavirus fears and social strife.
On Saturday, 22 August, the President of the Jewish community in Graz, Austria, Elie Rosen, was attacked on the premises of the synagogue.
The selflessness of immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic has forced sections of the UK media and general public to rethink their xenophobia.
The history of the Church shows us how the instrumentalisation of Christianity by politics has been a recurring fact.
The man known as the ‘Pope whisperer’ has called on the faithful to activate Catholic “antibodies” against populist exploitations of the coronavirus scare.
Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola has dismissed the conspiracy theory that coronavirus is “divine punishment”.
Ahead of the Slovak elections this Saturday, the country’s Bishops urged voters to remember the “Gospel and common sense” as a far-right surge in polling threatens the stability of the very European Union project, according to analysts.
Christians from Germany and beyond have condemned the far-right terrorist attacks in Hanau in which at least nine people were killed.
The Catholic and Protestant Churches, along with the local Jewish community, are standing up to the far-right in Dresden, saying that in Germany “we need peacemakers, not pyromaniacs”.
Cardinals in Germany and Italy are standing up to anti-Semitism and racism, saying: “Not with me! Never again!”.
The Austrian Church has hit out at the government over its proposal to ban the hijab for girls and over its “faith tests” for Christian-convert refugees.
The Austrian Church has hit out at the government over its proposal to ban the hijab for girls and over its “faith tests” for Christian-convert refugees.
An Italian priest fighting anti-Semitism has suffered a robbery in his parish, a theft he has described as “cowardice” and “sad”.
The Austrian Church has hit out at the government over its proposal to ban the hijab for girls and over its “faith tests” for Christian-convert refugees.
An Italian priest has had a genius idea to combat rising anti-Semitism: hanging a sign on his church’s front door…
The Hungarian Bishops have bashed a Budapest mayor for suggesting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party are “frightening white nationalists”.
President of Finland Sauli Niinistö has suggested that the vandalism on Holocaust Remembrance Day was a token of broader racism, and pledged to take action.
The far-right Hungarian Jobbik party has elected an anti-Semitic Catholic with Jewish roots as president.
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in the spirit of Pope Francis’ words, obliges us to expressly fight against all acts that trample on human dignity: racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
Pope Francis on Monday deplored the rise in society of “egoistic indifference” and the “barbaric resurgence” of anti-Semitism in an audience with a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights and research group.
An Italian bishop has decried Catholic anti-Semitism, recalling that “Jesus was Jewish in every respect, as were Mary, Joseph and the apostles”.
Tens of thousands of Poles are petitioning the Pope to silence the “hateful voice” of controversial priest media tycoon Tadeusz Rydzyk.
The Archbishop of Dublin has decried the rise in Ireland “of groups which are clearly populist and racist”.
The head of an Irish seminary has denounced “the sense of cultural and economic entitlement and privilege, even superiority” prevalent in the Western world, as he urged developed countries, including Ireland, “to choose hospitality over hostility” on the question of migrants and refugees.
Ivan Jurkovič, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva, has denounced the “largely one-sided” on migration, “often driven by fear and stereotypes”, which not only gives rise to “exploitation and abuses” against migrants, but also “eclipses” the “positive benefits” of migration.