Frans van Ittersum
FEAMC Presidency Statement on war in Ukrain
FEAMC strongly condemns Russia’s inexcusable and violent aggression against the Ukrainian people and stands by the Ukrainian Catholic doctors, their families, the Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Latin Church, and all Ukrainian citizens, believers and non-believers alike.
No significant moral difference exists between medically assisted suicide and euthanasia
Cardinal Eijk opposes the idea that assisted suicide is morally different from euthanasia.
Make Ash Wednesday a day for fasting for peace in Ukrain
Pope Francis invites everyone to make next 2 March, Ash Wednesday, a Day of Fasting for Peace.
Ukraine is still in danger
Message of Vincenzo Defilippis in respone to the President of the Association of Catholic Physicians of Ukraine
Saint Joseph, patron of the good death
The Church has always shown particular concern for the dying, offering them accompaniment and care, respecting the sacredness of life, even in its final stages, and rejecting the ethically unacceptable practices of euthanasia or assisted suicide.
EU Bishops reply to President Macron: “there is no recognized right to abortion in European or international law”
In a statement released on Tuesday 8 February 2022, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) expresses its deep concern on President Macron’s proposal of including a supposed right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Catholic doctor to challenge abortion pill reversal ban at UK High Court
A Catholic doctor is preparing to challenge an order at the High Court in London, England, blocking him from offering life-saving treatment for unborn babies.
Medicine: reparative or transformative ?
The next international congress of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC).