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CHIESE IN BREVE

Irlanda: abusi, “il passato non sarà dimenticato””Il passato non sarà dimenticato e vi sarà trasparenza e apertura nell’affrontare questo problema”. Lo ha detto il 23 gennaio il card. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor a proposito degli abusi sessuali commessi da membri della Chiesa irlandese, durante una funzione penitenziale che si è svolta nella cattedrale dedicata a san Patrizio […]

EDITORIAL

“Europe can no longer postpone the consolidation of public finances, the reform of the financial sector and the rapid introduction of urgent structural reforms and measures to support growth. Policy coordination is essential to respond to economic challenges: we must increase the economic governance within the eurozone and Europe-wide”.How could the recent “timeless” statement by […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Anglicans: the “Primates meeting” in Dublin”About seven or possibly eight Anglican Primates will not be attending the Dublin meeting that will open tomorrow because of the presence of the Primate of the Episcopal Church and of recent developments in the American Episcopal Church. And there are a few we are not yet sure whether they […]

EU PARLIAMENT

“An important step forward for all patients in Europe”: John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health welcomed MEP’s vote in favour of the directive for cross-border healthcare cast during the plenary of mid-January. “The directive clarifies citizens’ rights to access safe and good quality treatment across EU borders, and be reimbursed for it”. A right for […]

Waste: “recycling society a long-term goal”25% of food bought by EU households is thrown away; household waste is increasing across Europe; differentiated refuse collection is expanding, but at a low pace. The European Commission today published a report on Member States’ performance in the prevention and recycling of waste. This shows that some Member States […]

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

“An abstract application of the principle of non-discrimination ends up paradoxically by causing an objective limitation of the right of believers to express their own faith in public. An insidious evil, in short, is afflicting Europe, causing a slow, subterranean sidelining of Christianity, with sometimes visible forms of discrimination but also with a silent suffocation […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Days of Judaism: a debt of gratitude By tradition, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity opens with the Day of Judaism (January 15-16-17) and closes with the Day of Islam (celebrated January 26). For the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP), Msgr. Josef Michalik, the Days of Judaism “are opportunities to revive the […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Ireland: abuses, “the past won’t be forgotten” “The past will not be forgotten; there will be openness and transparency in facing the issues of abuse”. Thus declared Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor referring to sexual abuse by members of the Irish Church during a Service of Penitence held in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh. The function for […]

GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA

Il 27 gennaio si celebra il Giorno della memoria, in commemorazione delle vittime del nazismo e del fascismo e per ricordare anche coloro che hanno protetto i perseguitati. In Italia la Shoah colpì gli ebrei con le leggi razziali del 1938. "Tale volontà liberticida e antidemocratica – scrive Renzo Gattegna, presidente delle Comunità ebraiche italiane sul portale […]

GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA

Il 15 settembre 1935 venivano promulgate le leggi razziali di Norimberga: iniziava così un percorso di segregazione, di deportazione e di sterminio di due popoli in Europa, ebrei e zingari, che si concluderà dieci anni dopo, nel 1945. Se a tutti è noto il drammatico percorso di sterminio di almeno 6 milioni di ebrei (denominato […]