Redazione

Italia: il caso Englaro”Non ho posto nessuna condizione, pongo solo la dottrina cattolica riguardo all’indisponibilità della vita”. Così il card. Angelo Bagnasco , arcivescovo di Genova e presidente della Conferenza episcopale italiana, ha risposto nei giorni scorsi ai giornalisti a proposito di un’eventuale legge sul “fine vita” in Italia. Il cardinale si riferiva alla tragica […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Costituzione in seno alla Commissione europea di un Servizio ad hoc dedicato alla comunicazione; Piano D per la democrazia, il dialogo e il dibattito; Libro Bianco sulla politica europea della comunicazione; accordo interistituzionale tra gli Organi dell’Ue per “comunicare l’Europa”; rete informativa Europe Direct al servizio dei cittadini; diffusione di Internet e di strumenti audiovisivi; […]

EU PARLIAMENT

Europe and the whole world are heading for a recession and the world’s great powers are studying coordinated and effective solutions. It ought not to be any surprise therefore if economic issues – and the social issues linked to them – dominated the agenda during the plenary session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg […]

DRUGS

Europe needs “a concrete cooperation network of Countries and social public and private agencies promoting projects and services” against drug-addiction: it’s the hope of Riccardo De Facci, in charge of Drug-Addiction for the CNCA (National co-ordinating office of rehabilitation centres – Italy) and advisor on the use, consumption and abuse of narcotics. He was interviewed […]

THE YEAR OF DIALOGUE

“God has given us many languages and cultures, but just one world where to live together”. From this consideration the need to ” respect and value differences”. In fact, “if we were completely different we wouldn’t be able to communicate, and if we were totally alike we would have nothing to say to each other”. […]

RELIGIONS AND CULTURE

All religious leaders attending the Meeting promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio in Cyprus (November 15-18) on “The Culture of Peace: religions and cultures in dialogue” issued a joint declaration stating that “all injustices, all wars, all evil deeds must be uprooted soon” so as that we may all return to be “brothers”, starting from […]

CCEE-SECAM

“Even if the issue of migrations has been the subject of many international meetings and this meeting of ours might seem just one of many, full of words but with few facts, we are nonetheless ready to commit ourselves in real terms, because we believe that the Church, in Africa and in Europe, has a […]

FRANCE

During its history, the French society has been strongly marked by deep evolutions which throughout the years changed its religious values. Thus, Christians today coexist with worshipers of other religions, Jews, Muslims , Buddhists. “Whether they like it or not, they live in ever more intercultural and interreligious situations. It is also an opportunity to […]

Germany: Catholic hospitals, “no” cutsDuring the last days, thousands of Catholic hospital workers in the Münster dioceses protested against insufficient government funding. Catholic hospital workers held a national demonstration during their lunch break with various initiatives to denounce their urgent situation to politicians of the Federation, Länder and municipalities “Funds currently allocated by the federal […]

Italy: the Englaro case”I did not pose any condition, I only present the Catholic doctrine concerning the impossibility of disposing of life”, declared Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco , Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), in replying to journalists in recent days on the question of a possible law on the “end […]