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After events in Luxembourg today, the Pope’s four-day trip will continue in Belgium, where he will visit three cities to mark the 600th anniversary of the Catholic universities of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve before returning to Rome on Sept. 29.
Pope Francis called low birth rates “a very serious problem” and lamented, as he has on previous occasions, that despite the low birth rate “rich countries aren’t having children.”
Italy’s overall population has been falling since 2014 with 282,000 more deaths than births in Italy in 2023.
He also highlighted three challenges that the prefects face: public order, critical environmental issues, and taking care of the migrants flowing in.
‘The beauty of a family full of children is in danger of becoming a utopia, a dream difficult to realize,’ the Holy Father said.
What has caused the 50 years of steady decline in births across Europe, and especially in Italy, and is there any hope of reversing the trend?
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