Food & Drink: Seven top drops for a taste of the Med

Sam Wylie-Harris rounds up some stellar wines from our favourite Mediterranean hotspots. Jetting off to your favourite Mediterranean retreat may be off the cards for the foreseeable – but we can still fill our ice buckets and picnic hampers with wines from some of our best loved coastal locations. Just as these regions are synonymous... Read More

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June 12, 2020

Travel: How to embrace isolation on your next holiday

From far-flung cabins to off-grid retreats, these are the great escapes where you can really get away from it all, says Sarah Marshall. Even before the pandemic, tourists had grown tired of overtourism; travellers no longer wanted to follow the crowds. Space and privacy will become even more important when we all start to travel... Read More

Lifestyle, Travel

August 6, 2018

Greek Catholic leaders urge country to learn lessons from wildfires

Catholic leaders in Greece urged their country to learn lessons from the worst wildfires in a century, which left at least 91 people dead and more than 500 injured. “Help and support have come from all over Greece and Europe in wake of this tragedy, and I think we’ll recover,” said Archbishop Nikolaos Printezis of... Read More

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July 3, 2018

Fr Luke’s pride as he shows prince Jerusalem’s holiest site

A Franciscan friar from Sheffield has spoken of his “great honour” at guiding Prince William around the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem. Fr John Luke Gregory OFM – better known as Fr Luke – showed the prince around the highly significant church on Thursday, 28th June as part of his tour of Israel... Read More

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August 12, 2016

Pope invites Syrian refugees to lunch

At a luncheon that was part reunion and part progress report, Pope Francis invited 21 Syrian refugees to join him at the Vatican on 11th August. The pope’s lunch guests included the 12 refugees – three married couples and six children – Pope Francis brought back to Rome with him from Lesbos, Greece, in April... Read More

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April 22, 2016

Rescued refugees report hundreds drowned in Mediterranean

The same day Pope Francis brought 12 Syrian refugees to Rome from Greece, a merchant ship rescued 41 refugees, including a 3-year-old child. They told human rights workers they saw as many as 500 others drown when the refugees’ boat sank. The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that its personnel interviewed the rescued men and women... Read More

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April 17, 2016

‘It makes you weep,’ Pope says of refugees’ stories

When an aide suggested Pope Francis offer to fly some Syrian refugees back to Rome with him, the Pope said he agreed immediately because it was “an inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” In the end, he said, 12 Syrians – members of three families, including six children – had all the necessary papers from the... Read More

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April 13, 2016

Pope’s Greek visit comes amid time of fear and uncertainty for refugees

Pope Francis’ trip to Lesbos, Greece, on 16th April, comes at a frightening and critical time for tens of thousands of refugees and migrants waiting and wondering where they will end up, said members of Catholic aid agencies. Maristella Tsamatropoulou, spokeswoman for Caritas Hellas, the Catholic charity in Greece, said when rumors started swirling that... Read More

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April 8, 2016

Pope Francis to highlight plight of refugees in visit to Lesbos with Orthodox

In an effort to highlight the dramatic situation of refugees left in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis and other Christian leaders will meet with the migrants on 16th April. “Naturally, the pope wants to be there in order to draw attention to the sense of solidarity and responsibility” of all Christians,... Read More

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