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The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will open an event on Italy’s demographic decline as the country’s birth rate has hit a historic low.
Pope Francis will give the opening remarks for the General States of Birth initiative on May 14 at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, just outside the walls of Vatican City State.
The mainly online meetings organized by the Forum of Family Associations seek to address the 50 years of steady decline in births across Europe, and especially in Italy, and what can be done to reverse it.
Italy’s national statistics institute predicts that the country will see a significant decline in births in the years immediately following the coronavirus pandemic.
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