Redazione

Irlanda: non dimenticare gli immigratiContinua la campagna della Chiesa cattolica irlandese perché i più poveri non vengano colpiti dalla crisi economica. I rappresentanti degli ordini religiosi che sono riuniti nell’organizzazione "Cori" hanno incontrato nei giorni scorsi alcuni rappresentanti del governo per assicurarsi che chi ha diritto a esenzioni fiscali le riceva effettivamente. Tra le proposte […]

Ccee: le ferite ancora aperte del comunismo"Il comunismo ha lasciato in eredità delle ferite profonde nella vita delle persone e della società, dalle quali emerge una richiesta di aiuto e il bisogno di Dio e della Chiesa per guarire l’uomo". È quanto affermano i Cardinali e i Presidenti delle 13 Conferenze Episcopali dell’Europa Centro-Est che […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Senza voler andare troppo indietro nel tempo e nella storia del nostro Continente, tre sono le pietre miliari che hanno segnato le relazioni tra i Popoli (e soprattutto i Governi) della parte occidentale e della parte orientale dell’Europa nel corso degli ultimi sessant’anni: la divisione in blocchi del lungo periodo post-bellico, la fine della divisione […]

European Parliament: safeguarding mental health"In Europe one person out of four suffers from problems of mental health at least once in his/her life, while many more suffer their indirect effects", says Greek MEP Evangelia Tzambazi in her report on mental health, which aroused interest even before reaching the floor of the European Parliament. The report […]

EU COMMISSION

The activities of the European Commission are wide-ranging: they cover scores of sectors. Very often they consist of programmes, decisions, research projects, and the funding of activities about which EU citizens remain in the dark. In recent days, for example, three schemes that may directly interest Europeans have been reported: the first (eTwinning) concerns the […]

ECUMENISM

Moscow-Rome: Patriarch Kirill to the Pope"A fruitful development" of relations between the Catholic Church of Rome and the Russian Orthodox Church. This is what the Patriarch Kirill wrote in a message sent to Benedict XVI thanking him for the congratulatory Note transmitted on the occasion of his election as Patriarch of Moscow and of All […]

KOSOVO (2)

International negotiating tables, that are still seeking a difficult agreement between Pristine and Belgrade, appear to be at light-years’ distance from Kosovo’s busy urban roads and silent villages. These are the places where local populations are called to confront problems that everyone shares, regardless of religious identity and ethnicity. One year after its independence and […]

Ireland: don’t forget the immigrantsContinues the Irish Church’s campaign to protect the poor from falling victim of the economic crisis. Representatives of the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI) met government officials a few days ago urging tax cuts for those in dire needs. CORI also proposed that the Irish government expand the country’s fiscal […]

Ccee: the open wounds inflicted by Communism"Communism has left, as an inheritance, deep wounds in the life of persons and society, from which there arises a call for help and the need of God and the Church in order to heal the man," affirmed the Cardinals and Presidents of the 13 Bishops’ Conferences of Central […]

FRONT PAGE

Three milestone events that can be retraced without reaching into the far history of the Old Continent have marked the relations between the People (mostly the governments) of the Western and Eastern areas of Europe over the past sixty years. These are: the division in blocs, which characterized the long post-war period; the end of […]