Amedeo Cencini

2019 01 Aprile

Abuse

Motu proprio on the protection of minors. Hurting conscience and stringent rules

The Church continues to progress into the abyss of evil of abuse. She continues unmistakeably, as a journey whose avenues have been already traced, never taking a backwards step. Those who are still determined to downplay the scope of events and consider this attention excessive must come to terms with this, as well as those […]

di Amedeo Cencini

2019 01 Aprile

Rapporto

Osservatorio tg Eurispes: Matteo Salvini è il più presente in tv

“Con oltre 900 apparizioni protagonista quasi assoluto della comunicazione, tra ottobre 2018 e marzo 2019, è Matteo Salvini (un dato che conferma il trend iniziato dopo le elezioni del 4 marzo 2018)”. È quanto emerge dal Rapporto semestrale dell’Osservatorio tg dell’Eurispes, presentato oggi a Roma. Lo studio ha preso in esame le presenze nei titoli […]

di Andrea Regimenti

2019 28 Marzo

INTERVIEW

Brexit seen from Scotland. MEP Alyn Smith: “our independence is back on the table”

“My team and I have been told by the travel agency that they cannot book our flights for next April’s plenary session in Strasbourg as nobody knows if British representatives will be still in office” as MEPs should the United Kingdom exit the European Union. “Feelings of insecurity here are for real. It’s a psychological […]

di Sarah Numico from Strasbourg

2019 27 Marzo

CHURCHES IN EUROPE

European elections. Bishops of France, Germany, Switzerland. “Being together is better than being alone”

(from Paris). The difficult Brexit process, the winds of nationalism blowing across the Continent, and especially European citizens’ feeling of detachment from institutions, seen as increasingly distant and technocratic. The notion of the common good can no longer be taken for granted and today’s Europe needs to recover renewed thrust. For these reasons, the presidencies […]

di from our correspondent  M. Chiara Biagioni

2019 26 Marzo

INTERVIEW

Europe of young people. Jahier (EESC), “the present is yours”

·(from Brussels) The most direct, resolute message to the young: “Come forward, speak out, don’t wait for others to give way.” Luca Jahier, born in Turin, Italy, in 1962, is the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a consultative body of the European Union that brings together representatives of social partners,  of […]

di Andrea Regimenti

2019 25 Marzo

INTERVIEW

European Solidarity Corps: another way of being young

Some 15 thousand Italian youths have gone to Countries across Europe as volunteers, an equal number have arrived into Italy. In more than 20 years the European Union has given Italy 36 billion euro to support European volunteering experiences. Since the creation of the European Voluntary Experience (EVE) until the newly-born European Solidarity Corps (ESC, […]

di Sarah Numico

2019 21 Marzo

Mafia

Giornata della memoria e dell’impegno: a Padova per chiedere “verità e giustizia”

(da Padova) Nicola Messina, Celestino Zapponi, Vita Dorangricchia, Carlo Guarino, Michele Marinaro, Piersanti Mattarella, Carmelo Agnone, Giuseppe Compani, Domenico Spatola, Giovanni Falcone, Pietro Pato Spatola, Paolo Borsellino, Giuseppe Diana, Rosario Livatino, Giuseppe Pino Puglisi. Questi, alcuni dei nomi delle 1.011 vittime innocenti delle mafie. Scanditi lentamente a uno a uno da un altoparlante, e ascoltati […]

di Andrea Regimenti

2019 18 Marzo

TERRORISM

Massacre in New Zealand: seeking a path for conversion at personal level and inside the Community

The incident and its online dissemination are upsetting but they also deconstruct a set of founding principles of the person and of the way in which he relates to his fellow human beings. The detailed, systematic scheme, the fact of sharing it with others that are obviously ready to take his side, tell us a […]

di Cristiana Dobner

2019 15 Marzo

Clima

Global Strike For Future: “Salvare il pianeta, ora!”

– “Che cosa vogliamo?” – “Salvare il pianeta, ora!” La risposta, univoca e corale, l’hanno gridata, oggi a Roma, le migliaia di studenti che hanno aderito al Global Strike For Future, lo sciopero mondiale degli studenti per la salvaguardia del pianeta, promosso dal movimento #FridaysForFuture e lanciato dalla 16enne Greta Thunberg, candidata recentemente al premio […]

di Andrea Regimenti

2019 13 Marzo

EUROSTAT

Fewer births in ageing Europe. In Italy women have their first child at 31

Figures released by Eurostat reconfirm widespread concerns: Europe is ageing and at an increasingly greater pace, while births are decreasing more and more. The latest Eurostat data depicts a known picture: in 2017, 5.075 million babies were born in the European Union (EU), compared with 5.148 million in 2016, the year with the lowest number […]

di Sarah Numico