Redazione

ALBANIA

“Albania is looking to Europe and, although it’s a country with a Muslim majority, considers the presence of the Catholic Church important and significant. Albania appreciates, in particular, the witness she gave under Communism and the charity she has shown to everyone in the recent years of ethnic conflict”, says Monsignor Gorg Frendo , auxiliary […]

CYPRUS

Freedom of expression and of religion, civil rights, European integration, and “an exchange of opinions on the current situation of Cyprus and future prospects”, in view of the next European Council in December: these were the main issues on the agenda of the meetings of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos with […]

TURKEY

“Turkey’s candidature to join the European Union, due to its particular difficulty, especially in view of its high population density and unique historical and cultural links with Islam, is revealing the structural weakness that the EU is heading towards and imposes the need for a critical examination of ‘what’ Europe we want to build”, said […]

Over 1200 dossiers distributed in parishes; 32,000 prayer sheets distributed; over 2,500 contacts per month on the website www.vocations.ch: these are some of the figures of the two “years for vocations 2005-2006” due to end on 26 November. Promoted by the Swiss Bishops’ Conference and dedicated, respectively, to priests (2005) and to the baptized (2006), […]

“The Catholic Church in Bulgaria is following with bitterness and apprehension the construction of a 19-storey skyscraper just a few metres away from St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Bucharest”, declares the Apostolic Exarch of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine-Slav rite resident in Bulgaria, Monsignor Christo Proykov, who joins his voice to the protests of the Romanian […]

With a joint communication sent on 9 November, the President of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), Cardinal Karl Lehmann, and the chairman of the Council of the German Evangelical Council (EKD), have appealed to the ministers of the interior and the internal affairs senators of the Länder, who are called to decide (between 16 and […]

FIRST PAGE

The point of the belongship of Turkey to the European Union raises a debate around the nature of the European Union. It is the European identity which is now at stake. The debate around Turkey is more than a debate around Turkey. It raises radical questions. It is the revelatory of the current uncertainties around […]

PUGLIA

Lo scorso ottobre la Regione Puglia, prima in Italia, ha approvato la legge per la “Disciplina in materia di contrasto al lavoro non regolare”. Essa prevede che i datori di lavoro per accedere a finanziamenti, anche comunitari, e ad appalti regionali debbano applicare i contratti collettivi nazionali e comunicare l’avvio del rapporto di lavoro il […]

“Sconcerta la notizia che un gruppo di ricercatori inglesi abbia domandato la licenza al proprio Paese per procedere alla creazione di un embrione umano-bovino”. Questo il commento del teologo moralista don Marco Doldi al proposito annunciato nei giorni scorsi da alcuni ricercatori inglesi di voler creare in laboratorio un embrione misto, il cosiddetto “embrione-chimera”, composto […]

Prosegue la nostra rassegna dedicata ad alcuni passi degli editoriali dei direttori e delle note dei collaboratori sul IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale di Verona.L'”ora” dei laici. “Bisogna accelerare l’ora dei laici e stabilire un legame profondo tra tutte le componenti del popolo di Dio” . Ne è convinto Franco Giulio Brambilla, che su LUCE, il […]