Redazione

UE-AMBIENTE

Ogni anno le catastrofi naturali causano in tutto il mondo circa 85mila morti e, più in generale, colpiscono 230 milioni di persone. Oltre a ciò, i disastri naturali costano ogni anno all’Europa 15 miliardi di euro. Dal 1998 le sole inondazioni hanno ucciso nel nostro continente 700 persone, causato lo sfollamento di circa mezzo milione […]

UCRAINA

Greco-cattolici: dialogo interecclesiale e interetnico”A mio parere, quanto più profondamente e pienamente scopriremo le profonde radici del cristianesimo di Kyiv, tanto più ci verremo incontro gli uni gli altri. Comprenderemo allora che ciò che abbiamo in comune è molto più di quanto ci divide, come affermava il Beato Papa Giovanni XXIII “. Lo ha detto […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Portogallo: la Cep riduce le commissioniLa Chiesa portoghese ha deciso di ridurre la struttura della Conferenza episcopale (Cep), eliminando alcune delle attuali nove commissioni: educazione cristiana, pastorale sociale, laicato e famiglia, vocazioni e ministeri, cultura, beni culturali e comunicazioni sociali, liturgia, mobilità umana, missioni, dottrina della fede ed ecumenismo. Al termine del Consiglio permanente, tenutosi […]

editorial

Since it was created, the European unity project was aimed at something more than the interdependence of interests. Moreover, its goal is a community of values. In fact, a community of values enables to overcome national egoisms, as ongoing situations have shown. Only through a community of values can Europeans experience their membership to a […]

EUROPEAN PARISHES

“Yes, parishes are places of hope”: that’s the conviction of Hubert Windisch, priest and professor of pastoral theology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, who drew the conclusions of the 26th European Colloquium of Parishes held at Nyíregyháza (Hungary). This year’s meeting was dedicated to the theme “Parishes, places of hope. Prepared to make […]

EU COMMISSION

Over the past days the EU Commission had been engaged in several issues, ranging from preparations for the euro area summit, held on July 21 (that launched the task force for Greece and the normative framework for bank operativeness), to toy safety, from support to EU underdeveloped regions to international cooperation. Several measures regarded funding […]

Eu - immigraNTS

There are approximately 20 million “foreigners”, i.e. immigrants from third countries, in the European Union (Eurostat data). Their growing presence, due to the mobility of peoples that has been increasingly accentuated over the last twenty years, is creating problems (there’s no point denying that), but it can also be seen as an opportunity for the […]

EU - ENVIRONMENT

Natural disasters cause the death 85,000 people and 230 million affected by natural disasters worldwide. On top of this, disasters are estimated to cost Europe €15 billion annually. Since 1998, floods alone have killed 700 people, caused the displacement of about half a million and cost at least €25 billion in insured economic losses in […]

uKRAINE

Greek-Catholics: inter-ecclesial and interethnic dialogue”In it my belief that the more thorough the recovery of the profound roots of Christianity of Kyiv, the more we will draw close to one another, and we will understand that what we share is far greater than what divides us, as Blessed Pope John XXIII used to say”. His […]

chURCHES IN BRIEF

Portugal: CEP reduces its CommissionsThe Portuguese Church has decided to reduce Bishops’ Conference structures by eliminating some of the current nine commissions: Christian Education, Social Pastoral care, Laity and the Family, Vocations and Ministries, Culture, Cultural heritage and Social Communications, Liturgy, Human Mobility, Missions, Doctrine of the Faith and Ecumenism. In the permanent Council, which […]