SUMMARY - Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Defence Ministry State Secretary Marian Majer received on Tuesday outgoing Indonesian Ambassador to Slovakia Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady to thank her for her contributions, made during her four-year tenure, towards the development of cooperation between Slovakia and Indonesia, TASR learnt from ministry press department on the same day. KOSICE - Pope Francis came to a meeting with young people at the Lokomotiva stadium in Kosice on Tuesday afternoon. KOSICE - Prejudices and judgements only work to increase the distances between people, Pope Francis declared in the notoriously poor Roma borough of Lunik IX in Kosice during his meeting with the Roma community on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia won't take part in the conference on racism, to be held in Durban, South Africa, due to concerns over anti-Semitic statements voiced at this event in the past, the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry confirmed to TASR on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - An extraordinary session of Parliament with a no-confidence vote in Justice Minister Maria Kolikova is set to be held on Thursday (September 16) in the afternoon, TASR learnt from the Parliament's website. YEREVAN/BRATISLAVA - Chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok perceives interesting new avenues of cooperation in trade with Armenia, TASR learnt from the ministry press department on Tuesday. LONDON/BRATISLAVA - The City Mayors' Foundation which awards a prize for the best mayors of the world every two years, also conferred an award on Bratislava mayor Matus Vallo, the Capital Mayor's Office's communication and marketing department told TASR on Tuesday, adding that Vallo was granted the World Mayor Future Award. KOSICE - The real originality and revolution today is to free ourselves from the culture of the temporary, to go beyond instinct and moment, it means to love for life and with your whole being, Pope Francis said in a speech on Tuesday he gave at a meeting with young people at the Lokomotiva stadium in Kosice. BRATISLAVA - The struggle for the rule of law is culminating in Slovakia, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) said on Tuesday in a comment on the current events, adding that although it's a tough fight, the premier assured people that his government won't give up the fight. PRESOV - Christianity without the cross is worldly and becomes infertile said Pope Francis in his homily during the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the Greek Catholic form of Mass, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Presov, adding that we have innumerable little crosses: around our necks, at home, in cars, in pockets, but they do us no good if we don't stop and look at the Crucified One and open our hearts to him. am