On Friday 10 December 2021, at 11.30, a press conference will be livestreamed from the Holy See Press Office to present the third edition of the European Catholic Social Days, on the theme “Europe beyond the pandemic: a new beginning”, to take place in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 17 to 20 March 2022.

The initiative is promoted by the Episcopal Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE), and the Slovak Episcopal Conference, in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

The speakers will be:

His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., archbishop of Luxembourg, president of COMECE;

His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development;

Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, president of the CCEE;

Archbishop Stanislav Zvolenský, metropolitan of Bratislava, president of the Slovak Episcopal Conference.

The Press Conference will be livestreamed in the original language on the Vatican News YouTube Channel, at https://www.youtube.com/c/VaticanNews.