Redazione

The gradual decline in unemployment in the Eurozone is continuing. According to the data of Eurostat, the rate registered in December 2006 is equivalent to 7.5%, in contrast to 7.6% in the previous month. The improvement can be shown even more clearly if we consider the figure for December 2005, when unemployment affected 8.4% of […]

The “greatest invitation to present proposals ever launched in the history of the research projects funded by the EU” expires on 8 May 2007. The call for tenders – which places over 1.2 billion euros at the disposal of European consortia – concerns the new technologies of information and communication (TIC) as part of the […]

During a conference recently held in Geneva, the Reformed, Roman Catholic and Catholic-Christian Churches of Geneva and Vaud explained the sense of the ecumenical project that will bring an estimated 30,000/40,000 young pilgrims to the city in December. The ecumenical community of Taizé, which annually organizes youth rallies in late December, intends to mobilise the […]

Is the digitalization of the media only a technical question, or is it also a business, or perhaps a common economic interest? This is the question at the centre of a conference that the Association of Hungarian Catholic Journalists (Makusz) and the Association of Protestant Journalists (Prusz) are promoting in Budapest today on “Digitalization: the […]

ECUMENISM

In 2007 the Viennese Foundation “Pro Oriente” intends to step up its dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church as well as with the Orthodox Churches of southern Europe, while also keeping its efforts to improve relations with Islam at the centre of its activities. The objectives of Pro Oriente for this year were outlined by […]

Irena Sendler, who is now 96 years old, saved over 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. She has been selected as one of the candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. From the autumn of 1940 onwards, Irena Sendler, disguised as a Red Cross nurse, took food, […]

The 15th Day of the Sick will be celebrated in Poland in an atmosphere marked by the dramatic crisis of the national health service. The government plans to transfer some 180 million euros to the health service in the next three years. But the sum is only a drop in the ocean of debts accumulated […]

POLAND

The first results of the work of the Historical Commissions set up in all dioceses to conduct historical research on the period 1945-1990 and on the contacts of the Communist security services and churchmen are awaited at the end of February and early days of March. The first publications will concern the archdiocese of Krakow […]

“Come and see”: this passage from John’s Gospel is the motto of a pilgrimage of Catholics from the Czech Republic to Aachen and Kornelimünster (30 May to 4 June) to visit relics said to be those of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist. This is a traditional pilgrimage that has taken place […]

On 27 March, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of the apostolic protonotary Msgr. Bernardo Antonini, who lived in Russia for over a decade, a ceremony of commemoration will be held in the archdiocese of Our Lady in Moscow. The ceremony will be opened by a mass celebrated in the Catholic cathedral. This […]