Redazione

European citizens on vacation despite the crisis It emerges that the crisis in the economy does not affect European citizens’ leisure time. These are the findings of a survey carried out on a sample of 27 thousand citizens older than 15. Accordingly, 50% of interviewees declared that each year they go on summer holidays, while […]

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

The European Parliament, which EU citizens will be called to elect between 4 and 7 June on the basis of national ballots, is one of the three most important EU institutions, and the only one chosen by universal suffrage. Elected every five years, it currently comprises 785 MEPs, but their number will be reduced to […]

CATHOLICS AND ORTHODOX

“The election of Kirill will spur the dialogue between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches. This dialogue will most likely commence by addressing moral and social issues, given the Patriarch’s special sensitivity over these issues and the interesting work undertaken until today”, claimed Msgr. Giampaolo Crepaldi, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace […]

ECUMENISM

Russia: the visit of Msgr.Mamberti in Moscow Monday March 23rd bishop Mark Egoryevskoye, President of the Dicastery for Religious Affairs of Moscow’s Patriarchate, received in Moscow Msgr. Diminique Mamberti, Vatican Secretary for Relations with the States. The meeting was attended, among others, by the archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Vice-President of the Dicastery and by Msgr. Antonio […]

POLAND

In Poland, over the past few years, March 24 and 25 have been devoted to life and to the respect of its value. Following a parliamentary provision adopted with almost unanimous vote in 2004, March 24 is celebrated as the National Day for Life, while since 1998 the Church established that March 25, the feast […]

ITALY

The bill on so-called “anticipated declarations of treatment” (or “living wills”, according to the definition introduced in the USA in the late 1960s, i.e. a document in which the patient requests to be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by artificial means) was approved in Rome by the Senate of the Republic yesterday […]

Spain: the cross of the WYD in Madrid On April 5th, Palm Sunday, over 4,000 boys and girls from the diocese of Madrid, led by card. Antonio Mª Rouco Varela, and boys and girls from other parts of Spain will receive the Cross of the Young from the hands of the boys and girls of […]

FRONT PAGE

The usual summit of smiles, but more than ever an interlocutory meeting. The European Council meeting of March 19-20 brought EU-27 heads of government and State to convene in Brussels in order to discuss urgent issues triggered by the economic recession, along with concrete problems, and to adopt provisions (revitalisation funds, funding lines to impoverished […]

“Il prossimo viaggio apostolico di Benedetto XVI sarà una benedizione per tutto Israele, in ogni sua componente, ebraica, cristiana e musulmana”. Più che una speranza è la convinzione che si percepisce parlando con alcuni rappresentanti dei tanti istituti e congregazioni religiose presenti in Terra Santa. Dopo le visite di Paolo VI nel 1964 e di […]

Celebrazioni bilingue, una giornata da vivere insieme alle comunità locali di Terra Santa per incontrarle e conoscerne da vicino la fede ma anche la situazione sociale in cui versano. Sono queste alcune idee che Giovanni Sesana, presidente della Brevivet (Brescia), uno dei maggiori operatori italiani di turismo religioso, lancia “per rendere il pellegrinaggio un vero […]