Redazione

ITALIA

La notte del 6 aprile, alle ore 3,32, un sisma di grande intensità, 6,3 di magnitudo, colpisce e devasta vaste zone dell’Abruzzo, regione situata nel Centro Italia, in particolare il suo capoluogo L’Aquila. Il bilancio finale del terremoto parla di circa 300 morti, migliaia di feriti e 53438 sfollati (al 22 giugno), di cui circa […]

Malta: il card. Antonelli chiude l’Anno PaolinoSarà il card. Ennio Antonelli, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Famiglia, a partecipare in qualità di inviato speciale di Benedetto XVI alle celebrazioni per la chiusura dell’Anno Paolino che si svolgeranno a Malta e a Gozo dal 27 al 30 giugno. In programma, la sera del 27 giugno, […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Nel discorso pronunciato il 20 giugno davanti ai membri del Consiglio della Fondazione Alcide de Gasperi, Benedetto XVI ha reso omaggio allo statista italiano che è giustamente considerato uno dei padri fondatori dell’Unione europea. In particolare, il Santo Padre ha sottolineato il radicamento della persona e dell’uomo politico nella fede della Chiesa. “Spiritualità e politica […]

Sweden inherits EU rotating presidency The meeting between the EU Commission and the new rotating presidency of the European Council, which will pass over to Sweden in the second half of 2009, has been established for July 1st. In view of this engagement, Frederik Reinfeldt, Swedish Premier, submitted to the Parliament of Stockholm the Agenda […]

EU COMMISSION

The European Commission, elected in 2004, will remain in office until the end of October. In the meantime procedures have begun for the choice of the future President of the Executive: after the unanimous agreement reached by the European Council to designate José Manuel Barroso for a second term, the pronouncement of the European Parliament […]

ECUMENISM

Syro-Orthodox: the dialogue continuesThe dialogue with the Syro-Orthodox Church continues. This is the positive balance drawn June 23rd by Msgr. Gerhard Feige, President of the working group “Eastern Churches” of Germany’s Bishops’ Conference. Msgr. Feige, who spoke in a ceremony held in Warburg to commemorate the Common Declaration on the challenges of pastoral care, drawn […]

Day of prayer with Benedict XVI On the initiative of the President of Poland’s Bishops’ Conference (KEP), Msgr. Jozef Michalik, a day of prayer for unity with Pope Benedicti XVI will be celebrated June 29 in Poland. The Polish episcopacy, gathered in the 348th plenary past June 19-20, remarked in a statement issued during the […]

ITALY

On the night of April 6, at 3.32 a high-intensity seismic wave, of 6.3 magnitude, hit and devastated a large area of Abruzzo, a region located in central Italy, seriously damaging L’Aquila, the administrative centre of the region. The earthquake left 300 dead, thousands injured and 53438 evacuees (data from June 22). Thirty thousand left […]

Malta: Cardinal Antonelli to close the Pauline YearCardinal Ennio Antonelli, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, will participate as special envoy of Benedict XVI in the celebrations marking the end of the Pauline Year, due to be held in Malta and Gozo from 27 to 30 June. On the programme, on the evening […]

FRONT PAGE

In the speech delivered June 20th before the members of the Council of the Alcide de Gasperi Foundation, Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to the Italian statesman considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union, and rightly so. In particular, the Holy Father underlined that both as a man and as a politician […]