A couple with two children needs more than €700 a month to buy food and other essential products, a study by Caritas found.

Conducted by Caritas and nine university students, the study examined the price of food and essential goods.

The methodology of this study was based on an evaluation of prices of goods at two supermarkets in the Central and South of Malta, a supermarket in Gozo, two minimarkets in the North of Malta, three vans selling produce – one in the South, another in the Centre, and one in Gozo – a mini-market selling vegetables and fruit in the North, and the farmer’s market in Ta’ Qali… Read more »

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) supports the statement endorsed by more than 160 faith leaders worldwide, urging the EU institutions to adopt a robust legal framework to hold companies accountable for environmental damage and human rights abuses.

In the context of the ongoing interinstitutional negations on the future EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, faith leaders plead for the EU law to be aligned with international standards and to cover a wide range of human rights and environmental harmful impacts throughout a company’s whole value chain… Read more »

Missio Malta National Director Rev. Victor Agius attended the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome, last month. The annual meeting is attended by 120 National Directors from all Pontifical Mission Societies from around the world to discuss matters of policy and strategy related to the operation of the world-wide organisation.

This year, the theme centred around the importance of evangelisation as part of every Christian’s everyday life… Read more »

The BOV Volleyball Marathon ended at midnight Sunday but not before raising the sum of €366,817.

Forty players went through fifty-three hours of volleyball that was officially whistled in at six in the evening on Friday by the Minister for Inclusion, Voluntary Organisations and Consumer Rights, Julia Portelli and continued non-stop since then.

Fr Martin thanked the people of Malta and Gozo, that once again responded with so much generosity to the call for fundraising for the Home through the Volleyball Marathon… Read more »

The Soup Kitchen OFM Valletta is the winner of the 2023 European Citizen’s Prize, having been nominated by MEP David Casa.

“The Franciscan Friars began operating the Soup Kitchen OFM Valletta project in 2021, soon after inflation of food prices drove those on the periphery to seek aid.”

Casa, who had led negotiations on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) as part of the ESF+ regulation, said that food inflation was a pressing challenge in today’s economy… Read more »

Nhar is-Sibt 8 ta’ Lulju se ssir laqgħa dwar is-Sinodu tas-Sinodalità mmexxija mill-Kardinal Mario Grech, Segretarju Ġenerali tas-Sinodu. Il-laqgħa, bit-tema ‘Il-Proċess Sinodali hu twettiq tal-Konċilju Vatikan II’, qed issir peress li tnieda d-dokument Instrumentum Laboris tas-Sinodu fl-20 ta’ Ġunju.

Fil-laqgħa se jkun hemm aġġornament tal-aħħar żviluppi fil-Mixja Sinodali, u kif din qed tkompli fuq dak li beda l-Konċilju Vatikan II, li fetaħ 60 sena ilu… Read more »

The BOV Marathon in aid of Dar tal-Providenza is back again with 53 hours of non-stop games at the home’s car park in Siġġiewi. The 13th edition of the marathon starts today, Friday 30th June at 6pm and ends at midnight on the 2nd of July.

An added attraction this year is sitting volleyball which is an adaptation of the discipline of volleyball in which even persons with disability can take part… Read more »