Redazione

Family Day is “an event aimed at giving visibility to civil society, the majority of which is in favour of the family. That’s all Family Day is intended to be: a visible and real fact of life – that of the family with all its rights and duties”. That’s how Eugenia Roccella, spokesperson together with […]

“Children are not a disease: to offer women the chance of an abortion subsidized by medical insurance plans is cynical and expresses contempt for life”, comments Johannes Fenz, chairman of the Federation of Catholic Families of Austria, responding to the recent proposal of the Vice-President of the Austrian Greens, Eva Glawischnig, which has aroused a […]

LIFE AND FAMILY

“A better balanced family policy aimed at the well-being of the child”: that’s the request made by the German Catholic Church to the German political world. The request was formulated at the end of the bishops’ spring plenary assembly, held in Reute last week. In their final statement, issued at a press conference chaired by […]

The need for “forgiveness born from compassion, which alone can heal the wounds inflicted on Poland during the periods of Nazi and Soviet occupation during the Second World War”, was underlined by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz in the homily he gave in the Sanctuary of Lagiewniki on 15 April, Sunday of Divine Mercy. The former private […]

The Synod of the Reformed Evangelical Churches in Poland recently published its position on the vetting currently underway of alleged collaborators with the Communist secret services. “This difficult period of almost half a century in the history of forty million people cannot be clarified without great meticulousness, patience, expertise and compassion”, declare the members of […]

On 15 April, on the day of the memory of the Shoah (Yom ha Shoah), thousands of Jewish youth from all over the world visited the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The Israeli Minister of Education, Yuli Tamir, also took part in the celebrations. The participants in the ceremony, including some survivors of […]

POLAND

The Polish bishops have accepted “with profound regret” Parliament’s decision not to approve the introduction into the Constitution of the principle of defence of life from conception to natural death. “Unfortunately a cruel parliamentary arithmetic prevailed over the fundamental right to life of each human being”, say the members of the permanent Council of the […]

PORTUGAL

“It’s an unjust law, to which we cannot give our support. It’s our duty to continue to insist, positively, on the value of life”, declared the Portuguese bishops, meeting in plenary assembly in Fatima, in a statement signed by their President, Archbishop Jorge Ortiga. The Portuguese bishops criticized the legislation on abortion that has just […]

EMILIA ROMAGNA

Un protocollo d’intesa tra dieci Regioni europee per la “cooperazione internazionale sulle politiche giovanili”. Il documento, sottoscritto dalla Regione Emilia Romagna assieme ad Aquitaine (Francia), Aragón (Spoagna), Dolno?l?skie (Polonia), Hessen (Germania), Pays de la Loire (Francia), Generalitat Valenciana (Spagna), Västra Götaland (Svezia), Wales (Gran Bretagna) e Wielkopolska (Polonia), è stato siglato a Bruxelles lo scorso […]

Un’asta su Internet per finanziare il restauro della statua di San Paolo, presente nella cattedrale di Brno: è l’iniziativa promossa dall’artista Stanislav Sedlacek, che ha messo all’asta il 12 aprile, nel sito web www.idnes.cz, un proprio dipinto per trovare i fondi per restaurare la statua che rappresenta uno dei due santi patroni della Cattedrale. L’opera […]