Redazione

CHIESE CRISTIANE

Un vescovo ortodosso serbo è stato ricoverato il 16 luglio dopo essere stato attaccato in casa da sconosciuti durante la notte a Bosanski Petrovac, nell’ovest della Bosnia. “Abbiamo trovato il vescovo Hrizoston legato. Ha riportato ferite sulla testa e su tutto il corpo, ha dichiarato una fonte della polizia locale all’agenzia francese Afp. Un portavoce […]

RADICI CRISTIANE

Nei primi secoli dell’era cristiana, da Aquileia (Italia) partirono i missionari che evangelizzarono le popolazioni dell’Europa centrale. Nel giorno in cui la Chiesa ha fatto memoria (12 luglio) del primo vescovo di Aquileia, Ermagora, cui è associato nel culto il diacono Fortunato, si sono ritrovati nella cittadina romana i vescovi e i rappresentanti delle Chiese […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Gli scout e le guide del mondo celebreranno, il prossimo 1° agosto, l'”Alba del centenario” e rinnoveranno la promessa a un secolo esatto dall’inizio del primo campo scout, che Robert Baden-Powell organizzò nell’isola di Brownsea il 1° agosto 1907. Le cerimonie saranno tutte alle 8 del mattino: secondo i fusi orari dei diversi Paesi della […]

Helping citizens and firms to cope with national bureaucracies when they are called to apply EU regulations relating to the single market: that’s the task of the Solvit network created by the EU in 2002. Over the last five years the network has in particular solved 1,800 cases of citizens “who live, work, study or […]

“Lines of action to reduce the disparity in pay between men and women”: the Barroso Commission has intervened with a document that tackles the causes and proposes interventions in the member states to counter the differences in wages in the EU to the disadvantage of women. According to the Executive, women “earn on average 15% […]

“It is essential” for every human being “to have access in daily life to water of good quality and in sufficient quantity. The same goes for most of the economic activities that depend on it”. The European Commission acknowledges that “water shortage and drought have become, over the last thirty years, problems of crucial importance […]

The watchword remains the same: don’t drop your guard. In the triangle comprised between Brussels (seat of the Commission), Luxembourg (where the Eurogroup and Ecofin often meet) and Frankfurt (headquarters of the European Central Bank), preparations are continuing for new entries into the area of the single currency, but at the same time there is […]

EUROPEAN UNION

“Multilingualism is a key element of the EU”, which “underlines cultural diversity and ensures the equal treatment of European citizens”, says ALEXANDER STUBB , Finnish MEP. Stubb is the author of the Report recently approved by the European Parliament in Strasbourg in response to that of the European Auditing Court on the costs of translation […]

ABORTION

“If people are no longer able to understand that life is a duty and a vocation, it is all the more difficult for them to understand other situations of life, both at the personal and community level, as a duty and a vocation. Everything becomes a claim for rights without duties”, writes Monsignor Giampaolo Crepaldi, […]

“How can we affirm our identity as Muslims, Jews and Christians not separately from each other, not opposed to each other, but in kinship and solidarity?”. To answer this question 21 youth from 13 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and America met at the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches […]