Andrej Saje Slovenia

PRIMA PAGINA

Nella chiesa parrochiale di Kranjska gora e presso la vicina cappella russa, situata sotto il Passo di Vršiè nella parte alpina della Slovenia, si è svolta sabato e domenica, 24 e 25 luglio 2010, la commemorazione civile e religiosa dei prigionieri di guerra russi, morti nel 1916 sotto una valanga di neve mentre erano impegnati […]

CATHOLICS IN EUROPE

After the “Social weeks” in Poland, Italy, France, (cf. SIR Europe 53/2010), follows an overview of Catholic laity in Austria, Slovenia, Portugal and Spain. Austria: faith transmission to the youthThe 21st edition of the “Forum Ostarrichi” of Austria’s Lay Catholics Council will take place August 26-28, as customary, at Neuhofen/Ybbs, a lively village in Lower […]

KOSOVO

On July 22, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague – the highest judicial body of the U.N. – ruled that the unilateral secession of Kosovo from Serbia in 2008 is not a violation of international law. “The court considers that general international law contains no applicable prohibition on declarations of independence,” said […]

KOSOVO

Over the past generations the bishops of Kosovo have always supported its people’s intent and closely followed every event, bearing witness – before international authorities – to the fact that the Kosovan population, living in suffering, is a peaceful population, and this is why it has the right to be free just like other peoples. […]

Portugal: for “a social pact of justice” The Portuguese Church proposed “a social pact of justice and popular support, aimed at resolving the Country’s tragic economic situation”. This determination emerged at the end of an extra-ordinary reunion of the Advisory Board of Social Pastoral Care held in Lisbon, [of which are part, among other Catholic […]

FRONT PAGE

On Saturday 24 and on Sunday 25 July 2010 the civil and religious commemoration of the Russian war prisoners who died in 1916 under the snow while building a road over the Vršiè pass was celebrated in the parish church of Kranjska gora, near the Russian chapel located under the Vršiè pass in the Alpine […]

EU Council: sanctions against Iran”Our message is clear: the Iranian nuclear programme is creating problems for us”: Catherine Ashton, High Representative for the external policy of the EU, briefly summed up the measures taken against Teheran by the Council of Ministers of the Union on 26 July. The new sanctions (relating especially to the sectors […]

EU

Europe (the EU and its Member States) plan on the sector of Research and Innovation. Moreover, the economic crisis has made clear that the ability to find new, intelligent, "sustainable" and complex solutions is bound to gain increasing importance. This is applies also to many other fields which range from environmental soundness to communications, to […]

CRISTIANI NEL MONDO

I cristiani continuano ad essere discriminati e perseguitati in diversi quadranti del mondo: quasi quotidianamente rimbalzano notizie in particolare dal Medio e dall’Estremo Oriente e dall’Africa. Il cristianesimo indubbiamente è oggi, nel mondo, la religione che paga il più ampio prezzo della persecuzione, nelle sue forme più diverse, subdole o aperte, dichiarate esplicitamente o praticate […]

israele

Il governo israeliano ha cominciato il 25 luglio a discutere dello status legale dei figli di lavoratori stranieri, minacciati di espulsione dal Paese. Si tratta, in particolare, di 1.200 bambini che sono rimasti tagliati fuori da una sanatoria governativa del 2006 che ha garantito lo status giuridico ad oltre 600 figli di lavoratori immigrati. Secondo […]