Stella Maris, global ship visiting network, has backed an urgent call from the Vatican for all seafarers to be granted shore leave immediately.
In a message ahead of Sea Sunday on July 10, the Vatican said that some governments and some shipping companies must no longer use the pandemic “as an excuse” for banning the crew from going ashore.

Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”


