Europe Vatican City The Vatican Children’s Hospital performed the world first pediatric heart transplant from Covid positive donor to Covid negative recipient
Europe Vatican City For the first time in history, a ship financed by the Italian Catholic Church, the sailing boat Migrantes, assisted the crew of the Mare Jonio during the rescue of 182 migrants shipwrecked in the stretch of sea between Sicily and North Africa
Europe Vatican City As ship Mare Jonio began a migrant search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean, Pope Francis expressed his support for the first mission jointly organised by the Italian Bishops’ Conference and Italian civil society platform Mediterranea Saving Humans
Europe Vatican City Catholic organisations present at the first Catholic Peace Forum in Nagasaki renewed their call for a nuclear-free world, reinforcing the hope that Hiroshima and Nagasaki will remain the last cities to suffer atomic bombings
Europe Vatican City The Holy See officially "deplore the offence caused to so many Christians and believers of other religions" by scenes from the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games