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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The European Parliament (EP), apart from sharing legislative power with the other institutions of the EU, monitors the Community budget, expresses its view on the composition of the Commission, controls the action of the Executive, and also represents – an essential role – the voice of citizens within the EU. In its debating chambers in […]

GERMANY

In the January edition of the Herder-Korrespondenz, HANSJÖRG SCHMID , delegate for Christian-Islamic dialogue at the academy of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, sums up the role of Islamic leaders, the imams, in Germany today: Having become the object of suspicions and mistrust, they are now required as guides for integration. Over the last few years […]

ECUMENISM

The meeting that opens tomorrow, 15 January, in the city of Martin Luther, at Wittenberg, in Germany (until Sunday 18) represents the Third Stage leading to the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3) due to be held in Sibiu (Romania) in September this year, in a process planned by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of […]

The 15th national conference of the pastoral theology of pilgrimage held by the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, the Roman Pilgrimage Society (ORP – www.orpnet.org), which ended in Rome, 14 February is dedicated to the great pilgrimage routes of Europe. “If a European family is recognisable, in spite of wars and divisions, this is also due to […]

Homosexual marriage “is not a gift to make to the next generations”, urged the Christian, Jewish and Moslem leaders of Lyon in a joint statement signed in recent days. The religious representatives “are deeply concerned by the current fragility” of the family because “adults already have difficulties enough in helping the young to build their […]

Expressions of solidarity with the five women nurses and the Palestinian doctor condemned to death by a Libyan court and held in prison for eight years in the North African country were held throughout Bulgaria on 9 February. Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Armenians and Jews prayed together for the first time to ask for the […]

CHRISTIAN ROOTS

It is a widespread opinion that St. Benedict of Norcia is the “Western” patron of the continent and Saints Cyril and Methodius are the “Eastern” patrons. It is very probable that in the Scandinavian countries people speak of St. Bridget of Sweden as the “Northern” patron.In the collective consciousness, it is quite normal to link […]

FRONT PAGE

With a clear majority (59%, albeit with a rate of participation of less than 50%) the Portuguese, on Sunday 11 February, said ‘yes’ to a liberalization of abortion up to the tenth week of pregnancy. The result is not unexpected, bearing in mind the opinion polls published a few days before the referendum, though the […]

Casa del sì. “Le Marche, per definizione una Regione al plurale, hanno un centro spirituale unificante nel santuario di Loreto definito da Giovanni Paolo II Casa del sì“. È quanto afferma mons. Luigi Conti, arcivescovo di Fermo e presidente della Conferenza episcopale marchigiana (Cem), riferendosi alla peculiarità della Regione. “Oltre che dai suoi numerosi santi […]

PIEMONTE

Il 16 gennaio il Consiglio regionale del Piemonte ha approvato all’unanimità la riforma dell’apprendistato. I nuovi contratti potranno ora essere sottoscritti da giovani fino ai 29 anni e saranno di tre tipi diversi: per l’espletamento del diritto dovere di istruzione e formazione, professionalizzante e per l’acquisizione di un diploma o percorsi di alta formazione.La nuova […]