Redazione

Sessione parlamentare e vertice straordinario dei 27Si svolge fra Strasburgo e Bruxelles la prossima settimana di lavoro delle istituzioni Ue. Dal 7 al 10 marzo, infatti, è fissata la sessione plenaria dell’Europarlamento nella città francese, mentre l’11 marzo, nella capitale belga, è convocato un Consiglio europeo straordinario sulla situazione in nord Africa. L’Assemblea, oltre a […]

CHIESE CRISTIANE

Anglicani: lutto per Shahbaz BhattiAnche il mondo anglicano in lutto e sotto shock per l’uccisione in Pakistan del ministro delle minoranze religiose Shahbaz Bhatti. “È con grande shock e profondo dolore – scrivono in una dichiarazione congiunta l’arcivescovo di Canterbury Rowan Williams e l’arcivescovo di York John Sentamu – che abbiamo preso la notizia dell’assassinio […]

INGHILTERRA

Sanità shock in Gran Bretagna: anziani lasciati senza essere lavati, privi di cibo, acqua e medicine. Lasciati morire da soli mentre, nella stanza accanto, i parenti aspettavano di essere avvertiti per partecipare agli ultimi momenti dei loro cari. Queste le situazioni denunciate da una inchiesta dell’ombudsman della sanità britannica – l’organo che controlla il funzionamento […]

POLONIA

Un invito all’unità nazionale in vista di tre appuntamenti importanti per la Polonia: il sesto anniversario della morte di Giovanni Paolo II (2 aprile); il primo anniversario della sciagura di Smolensk (10 aprile) nella quale hanno perso la vita il presidente polacco Lech Kaczynski sua moglie e 94 alte personalità dello Stato e l’attesa beatificazione […]

EDITORIAL

“If you want to know why Europeans belong in a single community, visit any one of Britain’s great medieval cathedrals”. The sentence comes not from Catholic leaders insisting on the Christian heritage of Europe, but from Jonathan Jones, art correspondent of the Guardian, a British newspaper which is “liberal” in the mainstream European tradition, no […]

SHAHBAZ BHATTI

The Pakistani Minister for religious minorities, the Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, was assassinated in Islamabad on 2 March. A commando of masked fundamentalists forced him to get out of the car in which he was travelling and riddled his body with bullets. A flyer of the organization of Islamic militants “Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan” (TTP) was left on […]

GENDER EQUALITY

Education plays a fundamental role “to inculcate in children the notion of gender equality as early as possible”. Mariya Nedelcheva, Bulgarian MEP, is responsible for the annual report on gender equality in the European Union, due to undergo parliamentary debate during the next plenary meeting in Strasbourg. European Parliament scheduled a series of events for […]

polAND

An appeal for national unity has been made by the Archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, in view of three important events for Poland in the days ahead: the sixth anniversary of the death of John Paul (2 April); the first anniversary of the disaster of Smolensk (10 April) in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski, […]

chURCHES IN BRIEF

Spain: card. Rouco reconfirmed CES president On March 1st the Archbishop of Madrid, cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, was re-elected president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE) for the years 2011-2013. The appointment, the second running, took place in the framework of the XCVII Plenary Assembly due to close today in Madrid. His Eminence was […]

Parliamentary session and extraordinary EU27 summitNext week’s EU institutions’ working agenda will take place in Strasbourg and Brussels. In fact, the plenary meeting of the European Parliament will be held in the French city on March 7-10, while an extraordinary meeting of the European Council on the situation in North Africa has been called for […]