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YOUTH IN EUROPE

“The youth should be prompted not to conceal their faith. Even if they make mistakes, even though they aren’t always 100% coherent, they have to emerge from their small world, or else they will never be free, they will never be mature”. A message to the youth, with an encouragement to give public witness of […]

DRUGS IN EUROPE

Cannabis and cocaine are being stabilized, but other menaces are growing, such as so called “legal highs”. In Europe deaths from drug overdoses remains at a very high numerical level from year to year; even more numerous are those suffering from drug addiction, the diseases connected with it, such as Aids/HIV, and social marginality. The […]

COMECE

This month’s online issue of Europe Infos dedicates two initial articles to the energy question, with a contribution by the EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger, (“Towards a European Energy Strategy”) and the statement by German cardinal Reinhard Marx, COMECE vice-President (“Nuclear-free energy is not enough for an energy turnaround”). Continuing the reflections started with […]

THE CHURCH AND EUROPE (12)

With the interview to Msgr. Zbignevs Stankevics, Metropolitan archbishop of Riga (Latvia), continues the special SIR Europe series on the reflections of European bishops regarding the European integration process and Church thought on the common European home (Cf. SIR Europe 62-63-64-65-66-67-69-71-75).What do Latvian Catholics think and expect of the EU? “Catholics’ opinions vary, there are […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Portugal: the crisis puts democracy at risk “The current national and international situation can endanger democracy. It is becoming increasingly obvious that international politics cannot be reduced, or even less subdued, to a dark game of capitals, which would make democratic dialectics disappear”. The statement is contained in the Pastoral Letter “Hope at a time […]

CCEE-FACT SHEET

In the framework of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) that will culminate with a conference in Rome on November 22 on Europe and the New Evangelization, followed, the next day, by the Papal audience at the end of the general audience, SIR Europe presents […]

CCEE

“Man is the way of the Church” and therefore “our attention is entirely devoted to the human person in Europe, to his/her personal, spiritual and social situation”. This, in brief, has been the commitment of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) for the past 40 years, whose anniversary will be celebrated in […]

SCIENZA & VITA

"L’impercettibile slittamento dalla stagione dei semplici diritti individuali a quella dei doveri condivisi" è un "indizio" che "il clima culturale sta cambiando", non solo a causa della crisi economica, ma anche per "la constatazione dei fallimenti, cui ha condotto una certa visione angusta e troppo ripiegata su se stessa". Lo ha detto mons. Domenico Pompili, […]

VESCOVI ED EUROPA

"La conoscenza è il primo passo per affrontare in modo adeguato la grande sfida europea"; per questo, come vescovi, "abbiamo bisogno di entrare sempre più nel significato e nel funzionamento dell’Ue". Così mons. Mariano Crociata, segretario generale della Cei, ha inaugurato il 14 novembre il seminario di studio e aggiornamento per i vescovi italiani "Chiesa […]

DROGA IN EUROPA

Cannabis e cocaina si stabilizzano, crescono però altre minacce provenienti, ad esempio, dalle cosiddette "droghe legali". In Europa restano numerosissimi, ogni anno, i morti per droga e ancor più numerose sono le persone la cui vita è segnata dalla dipendenza, da malattie connesse come Hiv/Aids, oltre alla marginalità sociale. La Relazione 2011 dell’Osservatorio europeo delle […]