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UN promotes greater universal health coverage investment – Vatican News
The UN chief is calling for greater investments to strengthen universal health coverage to enable societies and economies to deal adequately with the effects of Covid-19.
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Pope intention for October: that women have greater leadership roles in the Church – Vatican News
Pope Francis releases a video message accompanying his prayer intention for October, the missionary month, in which he calls for the promotion of greater integration of the lay faithful, especially…
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World Bank urges urgent action against extreme poverty – Vatican News
A report by the World Bank highlights a marked increase in global extreme poverty rates this year spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and other long-existing factors.
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Gospel Truth: Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 11 October – Vatican News
In this week's edition of "Gospel Truth”, the late Jill Bevilacqua and Seán-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections from the Gospel of St. Matthew 22:1-14 of the Twentieth-Eighth Sunday…
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Pope to Moneyval: Preventing merchants from speculating on humanity – Vatican News
In an address to the Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe, Pope Francis recalls the need for clean finance at the service of humanity, especially the weakest members…
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Africa welcomes the positive message of ‘Fratelli Tutti’ – SECAM – Vatican News
Philippe Cardinal Ouédraogo, the Archbishop of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso who is also President of SECAM, has said Africa welcomes Pope Francis’ renewed push for a world built on solidarity…
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Stillbirths: An unnecessary, unspeakable tragedy – UN report
A stillborn baby is delivered every 16 seconds, which translates into nearly two million infants over the course of a year that never took their first breath, according to a…
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Prof. David Baulcombe: Putting science at the service of Church and society – Vatican News
Professor David Baulcombe, newly-appointed member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and professor at Cambridge University, reflects on how science can be put at the service of society.
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Pope urges science, technology to create inclusive society – Vatican News
Pope Francis sends a message to the plenary meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which is discussing the contribution of science for the survival of humanity in light of…
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Pope wants the new ‘normal’ to be a new ‘different’ – Vatican News
Msgr Kevin Irwin unpacks Pope Francis’s idea of social friendship as presented in the new Encyclical “Fratelli tutti”.