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Peoples’ Day will be celebrated in all the Catholic parishes of Switzerland on 12 November. To mark the occasion the bishops have issued an appeal against fear of immigrants and repeated their disappointment about the result of the referendum of 24 September that approved the laws on asylum and on foreigners. News of the appeal […]

Three Catholics Bishops, Terence Brain of Salford, Thomas McMahon of Brentwood and Patrick O’ Donoghue of Lancaster, and 27 Christian leaders have asked for the closing down of DESO, the agency of the British government that exports weapons throughout the world. The campaign of boycotting the DESO is being promoted by the Christian Churches, pacifist […]

A worrying increase of attacks against Scottish Catholics has prompted Cardinal Keith O’Brien to write to the senior Scottish law officer, the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, asking him for measures to curb the abuses. According to statistics recently published by the Scottish government, a Catholic is six times more likely to suffer violence than a […]

Some 800 Hungarian Catholic roma (gipsies) recently took part in a meeting with the title “Prayer in our life” organized by the Office for Migrants of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference and held at the St. Stephen’s University at Gödöllo, in central Hungary. The meeting was opened with a liturgy officiated by Monsignor Szilárd Keresztes, Greek-Catholic […]

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The history of Portugal is “a European history” that deserves to be better known, also for the perspectives it offers. It is well known that as a result of the authoritarian regime to which the country was subjected till 1974, Portugal was sidelined from the construction of the European Community. Once the regime had fallen, […]

Disinformation, lowering of the guard, Eastern European youth at risk: these are the findings that emerge from a recent survey conducted by Eurobarometer on Aids/HIV, on the level of awareness of its risk among the EU population and how they behave in relation to the epidemic. The risks are there, in spite of the good […]

“A simpler CAP, a challenge for everyone”: that was the theme of a pan-European conference recently held in Brussels by the General Directorate of Agriculture of the Commission and dedicated to the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy. During the conference the delegates discussed an action plan of twenty proposals to reform and “simplify the […]

During an official visit to the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and the Commissioner for Development Louis Michel announced the allocation of a supplementary package of 40 million euros for emergency food aid in the bid to prevent the death by famine of hundreds of thousands […]

So far over 10,000 people have been killed in the civil war between the army and the irregular forces that has raged for several years in Katanga, south-eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over half of the local population, estimated at 300,000 people, have sought refuge in the forests, in the marshland and […]

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“Obtaining information on all questions pertaining to the European Union”: that’s the main purpose of “Europe Direct”, the information network set up by the European Union to bring the institutions of the Community closer to citizens. In recent days, the Europe Direct information centres situated in the countries of Southern Europe – Italy, Spain, Portugal, […]