Frans van Ittersum 
FEAMC President Vincenzo Defilippis message for Easter 2024. “If we are, as doctors and as Christians, authentic servants of life, we stand with Mary at the foot of the Cross that afflicts humanity today: the victims of wars and persecutions, the migrants who die with difficulty on sea and land, the hungry and abandoned, the “discards” of our societies.”
On 21 March 2024, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations held a side event together with the Center for Family and Human Rights entitled “Celebrating Ability: Investing in and Accompanying Children and Adults with Down Syndrome and their Families,” at UN Headquarters in New York during the Commission on the Status of Women.
Christina, a final year medical student from Belgium. shares her experience in participating in the “Mission Conference“ in Brussels.
In view of the elections for the European Parliament 2024 ,COMECE issues a statement inviting all citizens, especially Catholics, to prepare for the elections and vote responsibly “promoting Christian values and the European project”.
The Pontifical Academy for Life supports the position of the French bishops: abortion cannot be a right.
Pope Francis discusses the relationship of science, technology and nature. Science and technology must promote the human being in its irreducible specificity.
Meeting of the FEAMC Executive Board with symposium “Professional and ethical challenges in medicine during war”, Ðakovo, Croatia, May 30 – June 2, 2024.
While artificial intelligence can be a formidable tool to facilitate communication and information exchange, it cannot provide the uniquely human wisdom needed to promote the well-being of people and their communities. This writes Pope Francis in a recently published message.
