Make the world more human by guaranteeing the dignity of the disabled
Message of Pope Francis for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Frans van Ittersum
To health care workers: “You show us the maternal face of God”
Pope Francis tells health care workers in Japan how they let us contemplate the maternal face of God.
Appeal to Belgian parliamentarians on medical ethics
The Belgian Medical Association St. Luke appeals the Belgian parliament to bring issues in bioethics in a public discussion.
People First – Caring for the Person Produces Better Outcomes
Bernard Ars, president of FIAMC proposes to add care to cure in order to respect the dignity of patients.
Humans excluded from healthcare in Italy
At the symposium “The left out of medicine in Europe, Vincenzo Defilippis discussed what people are excluded from healthcare in Italy.
No Euthanasia, Yes Palliative Care: Position Paper of the Abrahamic Monotheistic Religions
On October 28, 2019 Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and other Representatives, have signed the Position Paper Of The Abrahamic Monotheistic Religions On Matters Concerning The End-Of-Life.
In memoriam prof. Josef Marek (1936 – 2019)
Prof. Josef Marek, past president of FEAMC, died in Prague on October 22 at the age of 83.
New WMA declaration on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
The World Medical Association publishes a new declaration on euthanasia.
COMECE on new technologies: “need to intensify the public debate for a human-centric approach”
The Assembly of the COMECE Working Group on Ethics discusses national and EU developments in the field of ethics of artificial intelligence and robotization.
Medicine is service to human life, euthanasia not
Pope Francis reflects om medicine as a service to human life and the whole human person. by definition, euthanasia is not.