Redazione

Nell’ambito dell’anno nazionale di preghiera per la riconciliazione, indetto dalla Conferenza episcopale ungherese (Ceu), il 29 giugno, i vescovi della Conferenza episcopale slovacca (Ces) e della Ceu hanno concelebrato una liturgia di riconciliazione nella basilica di Esztergom, con l’omelia di mons. František Tondra, presidente della Ces. Dopo il Vangelo sono state lette le due lettere […]

CCEE

“Solo attraverso la comune responsabilità, la comunione vissuta e la collaborazione, è possibile mostrare che il Vangelo risponde alle grandi domande dell’uomo europeo. Solo insieme possiamo affrontare le sfide storiche. Con gratitudine si sperimenta che questa comunione e collaborazione fra le Conferenze d’Europa sta crescendo, ma occorre andare avanti. Non è esaurito il compito di […]

PRIMAPAGINA

Oltre un milione di persone sono attese a Valencia, in Spagna, per il 5° Incontro mondiale delle Famiglie, promosso dal Pontificio Consiglio per la Famiglia, che si è aperto il 1° luglio e si concluderà domenica 9 con la messa presieduta da Benedetto XVI. Tema dell’incontro è “La trasmissione della fede in famiglia” e l’evento […]

The European Commission is cracking down on animal experiments. Last week it launched the “European Partnership on the alternatives to experiments on animals”, with the declared aim of “revising, reducing and revamping (3R principle) the use of animals to fulfil regulatory safety needs”. The Executive has called on member states to meet their obligation of […]

The Agriculture & Fishing Ministers Council has formally adopted the Regulation on the European Fund for Fishing (EFF), which will come into force on 1 January 2007 in replacement of the existing EU financial programme for fishing, The new Fund has five fundamental priorities; “helping the fleet to adjust fishing capacity to available fish resources; […]

European efforts to improve atmospheric pollution have produced mixed results. According to the latest data released by the European Commission, greenhouse gas emissions are in fact slightly increasing, thus making necessary a further effort on the part of member states to implement the measures aimed at counteracting world climate change as defined in the Kyoto […]

With the aim of reviewing the situation, pooling ideas and projects and finding solutions to existing problems, the Commission launched a public consultation in recent days on the future action of the European Union in the field of organ donation and transplant. The consultation – due to end on 15 September – has been prompted […]

DRUGS

“Our efforts must especially be focused on youth”. To this end we need to “involve and encourage parents and teachers to fully play their role”, said KOFI ANNAN , Secretary General of the United Nations, who seized the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (26 June) to insist on the “educational” […]

Benedict XVI received in audience, on 29 June, the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, present in Rome for the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Delegation was led by Ioannis (Zizioulas), Metropolitan of Pergamon, co-chairman of the Mixed International Commission for theological dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox, and also composed […]

ECUMENISM AND DIALOGUE

An occasion to “share our common concerns at the start of the third millennium, and re-affirm our common commitment to contribute with renewed vigour and confidence to an intercultural and inter-religious dialogue at the service of an integral humanism”. That, according to Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Councils of Culture and Religious Dialogue, […]