Of the Baltic states Pope Francis visited, Estonia has the smallest Catholic population; 0.5 percent. Moreover, 70 percent of the 1.300.000 inhabitants do not follow any religion. <\/p>\n
President Kersti Kaljulaid welcomed the pope in the airport. There they listened to a top choir like this one. <\/p>\n
In the presidential palace, the president presented him with this kind gift: a digital citizenship card. <\/p>\n
Minutes later, in front of all the nation's authorities, Pope Francis warned of the dangers of creating societies with no roots, more focused on technology than in people. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> The pope stressed the need to foster societies with roots for two reasons: to give thanks for the well-being received through the work of past generations and to avoid a serious problem: the lack of vitality. <\/p>\n In Baltic countries there is a high suicide rate. According to the World Health Organization, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia are among the top 15 countries where suicide is most prevalent. On the other hand, a lack of connection to their own country affects 15 percent of the emigrants living outside of Estonia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 25, 2018. He confronted the problem of well-off societies that are lacking a vitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/44jps8pjqoY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/barrivoestoniaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/barrivoestoniaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cStill, we do well never to forget that \u201cthe good life\u201d and a life well lived are not the same thing. Put all our trust in technological progress, as the only way possible, can lead to a loss of the capacity to create interpersonal bonds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n