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SURVEY OF IDEAS

In Spain, considering “the dilemmas presented to the Church by political stances that are extremely distant from the ‘positive laity’ recently revived by President Sarkozy – but which is an important feature in policies’ development throughout a number of European Countries – could easily trigger a pessimistic forecast of Church-State relations”, declared Antonio Pelayo, ecclesiastic […]

Russia is the third EU-27 business partnerEconomic relations between EU-27 and Russia are progressing steadily: import-export trade increased three-fold from 2000 to 2007, while a positive trend is registered also in the area of services and direct investments. Eurostat released the data on the eve of the EU-Russia summit to be held in Nice (France) […]

RELIGIONS AND CULTURES

“Placing Cyprus in the limelight”: Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sant’Egidio, interviewed by SIR Europe, described it as a main reason for the twenty-second edition of the meeting of religions and cultures in dialogue, held November 15-18 in this Mediterranean Island. The event – co-organized with the Orthodox Church of Cyprus – will […]

ECUMENISM

Protestants-Orthodox: a Conference on baptismProtestants and Orthodox theologians and bishops convened in Vienna on October 30-November 1 for a consultation on “Baptism in the life of our Churches”. The highlights of the meeting – co-organized by the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and by the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) – were reported […]

FRANCE

“Religions, threat or hope for our societies?”: that’s the theme that will be discussed by the 4000 participants at the 83rd Semaine Sociale of Catholics in France, due to be held at the Congress Centre in Lyon from 21 to 23 November. This year’s session will be attended by various European guests, including a large […]

COMECE

The “constitutional” crisis triggered by Ireland’s referendum in June, the Russia-Georgia conflict, “the dramatic financial crisis” whose economic, social and political repercussions “can be barely imagined”: these, declared in November 12 in Brussels Msgr. Adrianus Van Luyn, President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) in his opening remarks to […]

Portugal: “a new style of Church”Inaugurating the plenary assembly of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference (CEP) at Fatima on 10 November (until the 13), Mgr. Jorge Ortiga recalled the words spoken by the Pope to the Portuguese bishops last year, during their visit ad limina apostolorum: “At the start of this assembly we need to think […]

FRONT PAGE

Only mushrooms sprout unexpectedly, but it takes water and humidity. In the dry season, very few mushrooms break through the soil and surface to the light. The horrors of that night, called “Kristallnacht”, had been carefully prepared, with the water of anti-Semitism, of Hitler’s propaganda, in the violence of consciences. The progress of Nazism through […]

Cari fratelli e sorelle, il tema della risurrezione, sul quale ci siamo soffermati la scorsa settimana, apre una nuova prospettiva, quella dell’attesa del ritorno del Signore, e perciò ci porta a riflettere sul rapporto tra il tempo presente, tempo della Chiesa e del Regno di Cristo, e il futuro (éschaton) che ci attende, quando Cristo […]

UMBRIA

Insediata a Perugia la “Consulta regionale dell’immigrazione” per far fronte ai problemi dei lavoratori extracomunitari e delle loro famiglie. L’organismo ha visto la luce dopo diciotto anni: la sua costituzione era, infatti, prevista fin dall’approvazione della legge regionale n. 18 del 1990, “Interventi a favore degli immigrati extracomunitari”. L’occasione dell’istituzione della Consulta è stato un […]