Redazione

Il Consiglio scientifico della Conferenza episcopale polacca afferma che la creazione degli organismi ibridi deve essere considerata moralmente inammissibile. In una recente dichiarazione ufficiale, i vescovi esprimono la loro opinione in merito alle notizie riguardanti la creazione per scopi scientifici di embrioni ibridi, cioè con cellule umane e animali, annunciata lo scorso 5 settembre dalla […]

PRIMA PAGINA

In questi giorni ricorrono i 70 anni dalle tragiche rappresaglie staliniane in Bielorussia che ebbero il loro culmine nell’anno 1937. Fu un vero e proprio genocidio organizzato dal regime totalitario sovietico e focalizzato sulla elite della nazione bielorussa: uomini di cultura e di scienza, ecclesiastici di tutte le confessioni e patrioti, ma anche semplici cittadini. […]

INFRASTRUCTURES

Telecommunications, energy, electricity, roads, railways, water: these are the great infrastructural systems that are common to all countries and today they are particularly complex and interconnected as far as Europe is concerned, with its thirty or so different nations and its particularly intricate geography. What challenges await Europe in the decades ahead? The question was […]

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

In Italy, “universities are basically male institutions. However, as relates to student population “women are more than half and their curricula are definitely better than those of their male colleagues”, said ALESSANDRO FINAZZI AGRÒ , rector of Tor Vergata University at the opening of the international conference on “Equal Opportunities and Human Rights”, held in […]

MINORITIES

Their estimated number is eight million, over half are less than 18 years-old, they’re the largest minority group in the EU. However the data is inaccurate. With the entry of Rumania and Bulgaria in the EU the Rom, Sinti, and other nomadic populations have regained the attention of the EU. The groups of origin, their […]

EUROPEAN UNION

Three years ago he assumed the role of Vice-President of the Executive and took on the portfolio of Freedom, Security and Justice. In his headquarters in Brussels, and also during his travels through the length and breadth of the continent, Italian Commissioner FRANCO FRATTINI has on his agenda the fight against terrorism, cross-border cooperation between […]

ORTHODOX CHURCHES

War of words between the Patriarchate of Moscow and the Estonian Apostolic Church: its origin can be traced back to events in Ravenna between 9 and 15 October, during the plenary session of the International Mixed Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church as a whole. On 10 October, the […]

“This letter is most welcome”, was the reply of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to the document “A Common Word between Us and You” sent two weeks ago by 138 Moslem personalities to high officials of the Christian world, starting from Pope Benedict XVI. WCC Secretary General Samuel Kobia highlighted the unprecedented cooperative tone […]

Seven thousand young people are expected for the All Saints festivities – October 26 -November 7 – in the Ecumenical International Community of Taizé, founded by Father Roger in 1940 in the Southern region of Borgogne, France. The news was released today by the brothers living in the community. Registration to date amount to seven […]

A letter bearing the ‘unanimous’ signatures of the Bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) – which held its plenary meeting in Portsmouth, England, the first week of October 2007 – was sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of faith requesting the Holy See union to the Church of Rome. A statement was released […]