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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January 8, 2020

Pope will celebrate Mass with bishops from 19 Mediterranean countries

Pope Francis will travel to the southern Italian seaport city of Bari in late February to close a meeting of bishops from countries bordering the Mediterranean, the Vatican confirmed. Publishing a list of the pope’s liturgies in January and February, the Vatican said he would celebrate Mass in Bari on 23rd February at the end... Read More

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January 23, 2019

Pope says he’s pained by deaths in Colombia, the Mediterranean

When Pope Francis led the recitation of the Angelus prayer on 20th January, he told the crowd in St Peter’s Square that he had “two pains in my heart: Colombia and the Mediterranean.” “I want to assure the Colombian people of my closeness after the serious terrorist attack” on 17th Janaury outside the national police... Read More

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January 10, 2019

After drawn-out negotiations, Malta allows rescued migrants to disembark

Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean were taken to shore in Malta on Wednesday after being kept at sea while European nations argued over who was responsible for them. Pope Francis had issued a public plea last Sunday for European governments to demonstrate “concrete solidarity” with the 32 migrants rescued on 22nd December and 17 others... Read More

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April 30, 2017

Killing Mediterranean birds must end, says animal charity

A Catholic animal welfare group has called for an immediate end to the killing of migratory birds across the Mediterranean. Catholic Concern for Animals’ (CCA) call comes after global conservation body BirdLife International claimed that some 25 million birds are reportedly killed illegally there each year. BirdLife revealed that common methods include illegal shooting, capture... Read More

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