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SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Most European citizens consume alcohol, but there are also 55 million adults who abstain from it (15%); bearing this figure and unregistered consumption in mind, it is estimated that each individual in Europe drinks on average 15 litres per year. Just under half of these 15 litres consists of beer (44%); the rest is divided […]

IMMIGRANTS

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many Romanians were living “in a state of poverty towards Western Europe and this convinced many to view the West as the only chance for survival”. Father Iosif Dorcu, director of the Migrants Office of the diocese of Iasi (Romania) spoke of the motivations which led many Romanians […]

ECUMENISM

Italy: the Church of Saint Nicholas from Bari to MoscowPast April 29 the deed transferring the property of the Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in Bari to the Italian government and then to the Russian Federation to Moscow’s Patriarchate was officially ratified. The deed was signed by the mayor of the Italian city Michele Emiliano […]

EUROPE - HOLY LAND

Flags, hats, scarves: any object, any symbol is good to declare one’s nationality and place of origin. It’s not nationalist pride. Rather, it is the yearning to come together in a long-desired “Place”: the Holy Land. Animated by this yearning, colors and languages are blended together and the presence of the faithful becomes a choral […]

EU - CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

“In the contemporary world we are called to a new asceticism and to content ourselves with a simpler lifestyle to preserve the resources of the Creation and to share them with the poorer populations” of the world, said Cardinal Franc Rodé, Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic […]

Poland: bishops against abortion The permanent Council of the Polish Bishops Conference expressed its “firm condemnation” of the Euro-Parliamentary Resolution (N° 1607 of past April 16) promoting the decriminalization of voluntary pregnancy interruption along with free access to the so-called “safe abortion”. “The Resolution of the European Parliament is detrimental to innocent children, to their […]

FRONT PAGE

The first European Council, held in the month of March under Slovenia’s presidency – one of the ten Countries which entered the EU in 2004 – has received scarce media coverage. The 27 heads of government and State made an effort to convey a message of unity avoiding negative sensationalistic news, which could have jeopardized […]

Contribuire alla formazione e alla iniziativa sul territorio e negli ambienti degli animatori della comunicazione e della cultura, rilanciando l’impegno educativo nell’uso responsabile dei media. È lo scopo del Copercom (www.copercom.it), coordinamento per la comunicazione nato “al fine di favorire la riflessione e il coordinamento di varie associazioni nazionali che si interessano alla comunicazione”. Così […]

PIEMONTE

Il 23 aprile la Giunta ha stanziato 1 milione e 300 mila euro per sostenere il rientro nel sistema lavorativo delle cosiddette “categorie deboli”. Il provvedimento riapre infatti i termini del bando per la legge regionale 28/93 che prevede facilitazioni e incentivi concessi dalla Regione alle aziende o agli enti pubblici che assumono lavoratori e […]

commissione Ue

Nessuna sorpresa: l’economia rallenta, crescono i prezzi di energia e beni alimentari e, per questo, è il momento di tutelare le famiglie, “specialmente quelle a basso reddito”. Le previsioni economiche di primavera, rese note lunedì 28 aprile dalla Commissione, confermano la frenata del Prodotto interno lordo, che per l’Ue27 dovrebbe assestarsi al 2% nel 2008 […]