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July 31, 2023
July 31, 2023
LISBON After a complicated road-trip, four days before the World Youth Day proceedings officially begin, I find myself in Portugal’s capital to fulfil the Sunday obligation.  Lisbon’s sloping streets down to its riverbank are teeming with pilgrims, draped in matching t-shirts blazing the JMJ (“Jornada Mundial da Juventude”) official branding. Little bands of Catholics numbering
July 31, 2023
A top EU official and former Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief has challenged the 2021 COVID restrictions on public worship at the European Court of Human Rights.  Bringing the potentially precedent-setting religious freedom case to the court in Strasbourg (ECHR) on July 28, Dr. Ján Figeľ stated that worship bans are “illiberal
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