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SACHAROV PRIZE

Do you fear that something may happen to you upon your return to Russia? “I hope nothing happens to me”. Lyudmila Alexeyeva doesn’t use many words in her reply to journalist, but says she doesn’t exclude retaliations. Alexeyeva is one of the first human rights activists in Eastern Europe. She was sent to exile for […]

TAIZÉ

The Pope and the leaders of Christian churches in Europe have faith in the youth and expect them to be a message of “hope” to the world. Pope Benedict XVI sent messages of encouragement to the archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, and to 30 thousand young people […]

ECUMENISM

CEC: new President electedMetropolitan Emmanuel of France (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) has been elected as the new President of the Council of European Churches (CEC), an ecumenical organization with its headquarters in Geneva that coordinates some 120 churches of Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic tradition in the European continent. The Metropolitan was elected by […]

THE FAMILY IN EUROPE

“Since the adoption of the Green Paper in 2005, the so-called demographic winter has been granted increasing attention on the part of the Parliament, the European Commission, the press and the public opinion”. “But it’s still not enough. They have come to realize that the social, economic, cultural and religious development of our populations is […]

THOUGHTS OF THE POPE

On 17 December Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the bishops of Belarus on their ad limina visit, as well as some ambassadors to the Holy See for the presentation of their Letters of Credence. We present some excerpts from the speeches addressed by the Pope to the bishops of Belarus and to the ambassadors […]

CHURCHES AND THE LISBON TREATY

A more modern an efficient EU27, increased dialogue with the Churches and greater participation of citizens: this is the European Union redesigned by the Lisbon Treaty in the words of Msgr. Gianni Ambrosio, bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio (Italy) and delegate of the Italian Bishops’ Conference at the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community […]

FRONT PAGE

The news is that the first decade of the third millennium is ending. But there’s not time – nor desire perhaps – to address it as this symbolic -and not only symbolic- circumstance would demand and deserve. Indeed, a moment seems to have passed since the night of December 31 1999. It was ten years […]

DISOCCUPAZIONE

“Il mondo del lavoro ha pagato e continua a pagare pesantemente questa crisi con la perdita di risorse, anche quando gli effetti sull’economia sembrano meno drammatici. Ritengo che i giovani siano la prova della fragilità del sistema-Paese perché, laddove servirebbe maggiore accompagnamento, il risultato è peggiore”. Con queste parole Cristiano Nervegna, segretario nazionale del Movimento […]

IL CARD. BAGNASCO AI PARLAMENTARI

Pubblichiamo il testo integrale dell’omelia pronunciata dal card. Angelo Bagnasco, presidente della Cei, nel corso della messa celebrata a Roma , ieri 16 dicembre, per i parlamentari in preparazione al Natale.Cari fratelli e sorelle nel Signore! La celebrazione della Divina Eucaristia, nell’ imminenza del Santo Natale, è un’occasione di preghiera e di grazia per tutti: per voi, […]

DIFESA DELLA VITA

Si svolgerà sabato prossimo, 19 dicembre, a Roma (ore 9-14, Centro congressi Cei, via Aurelia 796), il convegno “Liberi per vivere. Amare la vita sino alla fine”, promosso da “Scienza & Vita” per rilanciare i contenuti dell’omonimo Manifesto (www.scienzaevita.org) promosso nel marzo scorso dall’associazione, dal Forum delle associazioni familiari e da Retinopera, e sottoscritto da […]