Redazione

VERTICE DI COPENHAGEN

Comece: fare “tutto il possibile”Un appello ai decisori dell’Unione europea e dei 27 Stati membri a fare “tutto il possibile” affinché a Copenhagen “venga adottato sotto l’egida dell’Onu un accordo sul clima, ambizioso, globale e giusto”. A rivolgerlo, alla vigilia della riunione del Consiglio europeo che si terrà il 10 e 11 dicembre a Bruxelles, […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Adesso ci siamo. Il Trattato di Lisbona finalmente è entrato in vigore e con ciò si è concluso un contrasto durato 10 anni per la futura Costituzione dell’Unione europea. Ha avuto inizio un nuovo capitolo nella lunga storia dell’unificazione dell’Europa.L’Unione europea, attraverso le disposizioni previste dal nuovo Trattato, viene posta formalmente e dal punto di […]

Asylum and refugees: 76 thousand granted recognitionDuring 2008 EU Member States granted protection to 76,300 asylum seekers. According to a Eurostat survey, “The largest groups of beneficiaries of protection status 1 in the EU27 were citizens of Iraq (16 600 persons or 22% of the total number of persons granted protection status), Somalia (9 500 […]

EU COMMISSION

Twenty-seven representatives of the EU Member States are the designated Commissioners of the new Barroso team whose mandate, prior to EP and Council endorsement, is due to expire in 2014. Who are they?Outgoing, incoming, ex premiers and MEPs. Commissioners-designate will appear in individual hearings before Parliamentary committees from 11-19 January. The vote of consent on […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Italy: the new president of the Evangelical churches Methodist pastor Massimo Aquilante is the new president of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (FCEI). He was elected by FCEI’s XV assembly in Florence. He represents some 60,000 Valdese, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran faithful of the Salvation Army and more. Pastor Aquilante, who has a three-year […]

ENGLAND

A new body providing formation programs for Catholic youth ministers and the appointment of a new delegate bishop for the pastoral care of the youth: these are two decisions taken by English bishops during the works of the latest plenary meeting held a few days ago in Leeds. The body, the “Catholic Youth Ministry Federation” […]

ITALY

An “important initiative that tackles one of the great issues that have always fascinated and interrogated the human spirit”: that’s how Benedict XVI defines the international conference “God today: with him or without him changes everything”, which opened in Rome on Thursday 10 December, in the message sent to the President of the Italian Bishops’ […]

Portugal: the program of the Pope’s visitThe official program of the visit of Benedict XVI to Portugal, May 11-14 2010 was presented during a press conference past Monday December 7. Accordingly, the visit will be marked by three main destinations: Lisbon, Fatima and Oporto. “It’s an official and pastoral visit”, the general coordinator of the […]

Spain: crucifix, sign of “cultural identity”The recent vote of the Committee of Education of the Chamber of Deputies – lower house of Parliament – in Madrid, urging the government to withdraw religious symbols from all schoolrooms throughout the country, continues to arouse debate and discussion in Spain. The vote was taken in conformity with the […]

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

COMECE: doing “everything possible”Mgr. Van Luyn, president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), calls on the decision-makers of the EU and its 27 Member States to “do everything in their power” to ensure that an ambitious, comprehensive and just climate protection agreement will be adopted in Copenhagen under the […]