As the UN launches a global humanitarian response plan to fight Covid-19, UNICEF warns about the risks to children affected by the pandemic.The United Nations Children’s Agency, UNICEF, is urging governments to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children amidst
More than eighteen million jobs could be lost in Mexico due to the ravages of Coronavirus and the resulting massive as well as devastating inroads into its already fragile economy.Millions of small businesses are already faltering, looking set and certain to fold and &
The New York State Catholic Conference on Monday indicated its opposition to a bill that would legalize the sale and use of recreational marijuana.“New York’s medical, education and law enforcement communities have urged the state to reNY bishops worry state would go up in smoke
The Italian bishop of a missionary region of Ethiopia is the first Catholic bishop known to have died of the global coronavirus pandemic. He died March 25.Bishop Angelo Moreschi, 67, was the leader of Ethiopia’s Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella, a missionary region of 25,000 Catholics
South Sudan’s government has put measures into place to prevent the spread of Covid-19 but millions of displaced people are at heightened risk.Like other governments across the globe, South Sudan has planned a series of measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic.
The bishops of the United Kingdom have ordered the closure of all Catholic churches, even though they were exempted from shuttering by the countrywide stay-at-home order.U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued the lockdown directive on Monday evening. The rules restri
The director of the Holy See's press office, Matteo Bruni, said Tuesday there are now a total of four people connected to Vatican City who have tested positive for the coronavirus.Included in this number, Bruni said, is the first confirmed case of COVID-19 connected to
Two convents, one in Rome and one in a town nearby the capital city, have been isolated as the majority of religious sisters in the communities tested positive for COVID-19.According to Italian news agency ANSA, 59 sisters have tested positive for coronavirus between t
The policy of social distancing means that the newly-homebound are seeing less of coworkers than they did just weeks ago. They’re seeing fewer friends too. But they might be seeing a lot more of their family, or their roommates. And that isn't easy.For some, esp
Italian dioceses surrounding Milan have reported the deaths of 30 priests during the coronavirus outbreak.Avvenire, the Italian newspaper owned by the Italian bishops conference, attributes at least 28 of these priests’ deaths to COVID-19, and also notes two add