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The Pope at MED24 asked the young people of the Mediterranean to help the region “recover its expression of fraternity and peace” and stop being “a graveyard”

He did so through a message he sent to the young people participating in Albania at MED 24 in Tirana. Inspired by the previous Mediterranean Meetings, the event aims to create a spirit of fraternity following Francis’ call to build bridges of dialogue between the different religions and cultures of the Mediterranean.

The Rise of Living Alone

As Crooks noted in Of Mice and Men, when people get lonely, they can get sick, and this becomes a public health problem. Research finds that loneliness and lack of social connection increase the risk of disease, anxiety, depression, dementia, and premature death.