Silvia Guzzetti (from London)

POLITICAL LIFE

“Our entire system is in a crisis because our PM is stalled both by the EU issue and by an opposition led by Jeremy Corbyn that cannot replace her. We are deadlocked.” The day after Theresa May’s decision to delay the vote in Parliament on the deal with the EU that was supposed to finalize […]

POLITICAL LIFE

After 18 years as President of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Angela Merkel handed over her party leadership to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The day after the Hessian State election, held five weeks ago, when CDU suffered another setback, the German Chancellor announced that at the Party Congress held in Hamburg last weekend (December 7-8) she would […]

Environmental protection

Catholics and Lutherans spoke in unison upholding environmental protection. An ecumenical message for the care of creation was launched in Katowice. In the Polish city that is hosting the Climate Conference COP24, Anders Wejryd, European President of the World Council of Churches (WCC), former primate of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, declared: “the Creation has […]

DEBATE

“Human rights in general, and the Universal Declaration in particular, were not meant to be used as weapons to advance political, economic, military or cultural agendas contrary to the fundamental human rights.” It is the belief that guided the Mission of the Holy See at the UN in New York in the debate that inaugurated […]

INTERVIEW

Growing numbers of Dutch people don’t believe in God or are less religiously affiliated. These are the findings of a survey published by the National Statistics Bureau (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek). 51% of Dutch people aged 15 and over declared to have no religious affiliation (49% in 2016 and 46% in 2012). 24% of […]

SOLIDARITY

An extraordinary contribution to the fight on slavery, understood as the violent deprivation of freedom, forcing people into prostitution or black labour or other forms of exploitation, a scourge that is largely and sadly ignored or underestimated. Since 2007 sixteen religious Congregations in England and Wales have donated 29 properties, with an overall “book” value […]

COMMENT

Our future in Europe risks being compromised by a set of wrong assumptions made by the Government, which not only isolate us from the rest of Europe but also isolate Italy from its own historical past. Italy did not become one of the founding countries of the European Union by chance. The European project brought […]

EIGHT PER THOUSAND

Egypt: an outburst of life amidst huge poverty stretches. Burdened by an extremely weak currency, lagging tourism – especially after the Islamist terror attacks against the Copt Orthodox communities over the past year – grappling with a set of rigorous economic reforms that had devastating consequences on people’s lives. In this Country where over 85% […]

POLITICAL LIFE

The city’s centre is set to be on lockdown and practically inaccessible.  In suburban districts, the so-called “villas miserias”, long lines of people are seen outside parishes to receive aids and foodstuffs. These are the two snapshots of Buenos Aires that will soon host the G20 – November 30th and December 1st. The leaders of […]

MIGRANT RECEPTION

(from New York) Initiatives and expressions of solidarity towards migrants, especially in US-Mexico border zones, where the major detention centres are located and where US communities are preparing to receive the new caravan of refugees from Central America, are rapidly growing. In the meantime, past Thursday a group of 200 Jews, Muslims and Christians undertook […]