#Deaths

Kharkiv hypermarket attack, Iryna and daughter Maria among the victims. Father Semenkov: “We are a Church at war”

The Greek Catholic Bishop Vasyl Tuchapets, Exarch of Kharkiv, announced in a statement that Iryna and her daughter Maria, 12,…

Mounting death toll in a land of depopulating villages and piling graves

Two years after the outbreak of the Russian aggression, Ukraine is reckoning with its countless deaths: those who decided to…

Mediterranean Meetings. Bishops on deaths at sea: “Life is a sacred thing, and we must do everything in our power to save it”

“When someone is suffering, we have a moral duty to help them. Therefore, anything that is contrary to this principle…

Railway accident in Brandizzo. Alesil: “Few inspections.” ACLI: “Safety hazards are underestimated”

The circumstances of the accident that claimed the lives of five railway workers are still unclear. What exists for now…

Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea: EU, Ombudsman O’Reilly opens an investigation to “clarify the role of Frontex in search and rescue operations”

Cholera emergency in Mariupol. Fr. Oleh Ladnyuk (Salesian): “There are no definite news but the risk increases with heat, contaminated water and unattended corpses.”

“Tens of thousands dead from the cholera epidemic – unfortunately, this is a potentially real scenario for occupied Mariupol. “The…

Shevchuk in Irpin and Bucha: “Words fail us. Their blood cries out to us”

A memorial service was held yesterday at the mass graves in Bucha. His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv…

Ukraine. Appeal from priests: “Create humanitarian corridors to bury the dead”

Shattered lives, corpses abandoned on the streets, mass graves, Russian and Ukrainian mothers who are still unable to embrace and…

Tornadoes in the USA: the city of Mayfield, Kentucky, razed to the ground. Caritas relief efforts and solidarity

Deaths. Rubble. Trees ripped from the ground. Buildings razed. Windows, rooftops torn off, doors swept away and reduced to rubble.…

Coronavirus Covid-19: Eurostat, 580 thousand more deaths from March to December 2020. Country-by-country figures

Over 200 priests died from COVID-19 in the first 9 months. The north of the country hardest hit, 60% more fatalities compared to 2019

Older priests were dying in the highest numbers, with a mean age of 82 years, mirroring the age of COVID-19…