Vatican: transsexuals can be baptised
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed, that transgender people or people born through surrogacy can be baptised, provided no scandal or confusion is caused as a result.
Frans van Ittersum
Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki
The World Medical Association invites you to attend its Conference on the Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, focused on research in resource-poor settings.
Human meanings and challenges
General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The workshops on February, 12th and 13th, are open for external participation.
COMECE: concerns about draft on substances of human origin
COMECE and KBB are jointly releasing a statement expressing their deep concerns about the draft of the European Parliament’s position on the SoHO Regulation.
World Youth Days 2023: reports on FIAMC.org
Read updates on the 2023 World Youth Days in Lisbon, and especially on FIAMC activities for young doctors and medical students.
COMECE on the “ethical indefensibility” of an EU fundamental right to abortion
COMECE states that abortion cannot be an EU fundamental right.
Reinforcing family life
The Vatican is launching a programme to strengthen family life. Pope Francis stressed this in a message introducing the programme.
Msgr. Dr. Valentin Pozaić: in memoriam
Msgr. Dr. Valentin Pozaić, a founder and the first ecclesiastical assistant of the Croatian Catholic Medical Society and a former ecclesiastical assistant of the FEAMC (1996–2016), has died. (September 15, 1945–May 15, 2023)
Msgr. Valentin Pozaic passed away
Reaction of Vincenzo Defilippis, FEAMC president, on the death of msgr. Valentin Pozaic.