Redazione

Dining together with young believers and non-believers to speak about life and faith: that’s one of the ideas being pursued by the university apostolate in Barcelona, which this year came up with the idea of so-called “creative workshop-meals” to “create new inward spiritual and psychological meanings on the basis of rites, symbols and metaphors of […]

YOUTH

The national Catholic Youth Day (KJD) was held at Niewegein, near Utrecht, in recent days. Some 1,800 Catholic youths took part in it. Monsignor Everard de Jong, delegate for youth pastoral care within the Dutch Bishops’ Conference, is of the view that the chance to meet together is one of the most important aspects of […]

FRONT PAGE

Officially invited by the President of the Republic of Turkey, Benedict XVI is about to visit our country, following in the footsteps of his predecessors Paul VI and John Paul II. For those who are passionate about dialogue, Turkey is an inevitable port of call. The ecumenical process necessarily passes through the historical and primatial […]

The German press comments on the Middle Eastern situation in the light of the strategy of the USA. On the Israeli-Palestinian question, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (16/11) observes: “ Today it’s apparent that Washington’s previous policy towards Israel has served neither American interests, nor those of the Israelis.. The USA must be interested in once […]

70% of European citizens consider an EU intervention is needed to reduce the costs of telephone calls abroad using a cell phone: that’s the finding of a survey conducted by Eurobarometer on a sample of 25,000 citizens of the 25 member states and published last week. “Excessively high prices discourage the use of cell phones […]

The first virtual game on how to become MEPs has been introduced by the Schuman Foundation in Warsaw. The Foundation, aimed at “the promotion of European ideals”, “was concerned by the low voter turnout in the European elections in Poland”. To this end – explains Micha? Kwietniewski, in charge of the project – a virtual […]

Obesity, sedentariness, excessive and unhealthy diet: the health of Europeans is threatened by the superabundance of food and a sedentary lifestyle, reports a survey conducted by Eurobarometer, published in recent days and commented on by the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou. “The majority of Europeans consider themselves in a good state of […]

In the European Union “over half of all homes are provided with access to the internet” and the figure is constantly growing: that’s the main finding of the Report on the use of the information and communication technologies published by Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Community, on 10 November. More precisely, at the […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

With applause and sighs of relief the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg has given the go ahead to the controversial Services Directive, a provision that, at least in the Commission’s original intentions, was supposed to open this economic sector to free competition, favouring its development and the simultaneous creation of new jobs. During its session […]

The meeting with Bartholomew I, “which raises hopes for ecumenical dialogue”, and that with the Islamic world in the person of Turkey’s President of Religious Affairs: these, according to Otmar Oehring, head of the human rights section at “Missio”, the German Pontifical Missionary Society, and an expert on Islam and Turkey, will be the two […]