Redazione

TURKEY

Don Andrea Santoro, don Martin Kmetec, Father Hanri Leylek, Father Pierre Brunissen: the list of the Catholic priests killed or attacked in Turkey continues to grow. It’s an escalation that began on 5 February this year, when the Roman priest, don Andrea Santoro, was killed in his parish church at Trabzon by a young fanatic, […]

“The blood spilt on the streets of Poznan not only by workers, but also by women, students and children, was not shed in vain. Indeed it was the seed of the freedom whose fruit was the fall of the Stalinist system years later and the full sovereignty of the nation”: that’s the central past of […]

“It’s a report that, together with the three others that have preceded it, paints the picture of the constant and constructive progress being made in so delicate an area of the life of the Church as the abuse of minors”, declared Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham on 3 July. Nichols, chairman of the board of […]

As part of the national year of prayer for reconciliation, called by the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference (HBC), the Slovak and Hungarian bishops concelebrated a liturgy of reconciliation in the basilica of Esztergom on 29 June, with a homily given by Archbishop František Tondra, President of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference. Two brotherly letters on reconciliation signed […]

CCEE

“Only through common responsibility, communion and collaboration is it possible to show that the Gospel responds to the great questions of European man. Only together can we tackle the historical challenges. With gratitude we experience that this communion and collaboration between the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe is growing, but we need to go forward. Our […]

FRONT PAGE

Over a million people are expected to congregate in Valencia, in Spain, for the 5th World Meeting of Families, promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Family, which opened on 1st July and will end on Sunday 9th with a mass presided over by Benedict XVI. The theme of the meeting is “The transmission of […]

Domenica 18 giugno, per la prima volta a Salerno si sono svolte le elezioni primarie dei consiglieri stranieri aggiunti al Consiglio comunale, promosse dalla Consulta provinciale degli immigrati e delle loro famiglie. Aventi diritto di voto tutti i cittadini stranieri che, alla data dell’8 giugno 2006, avessero compiuto 18 anni, in possesso di regolare permesso […]

Le manifestazioni di Rimini, dal 22 al 25 giugno, su “Lavoro e festa”, quinta tappa dell’itinerario nazionale di preparazione del Convegno di Verona, hanno aggiunto un tassello importante nel mosaico della testimonianza della Chiesa italiana: un disegno sempre più ricco di esperienze e di prospettive in tutte le direzioni dell’umano. Al termine delle giornate riminesi, […]

BASILICATA

La Giunta regionale della Basilicata ha reso noto nei giorni scorsi l’approvazione del “Piano regionale per il diritto allo studio e dell’offerta formativa integrata 2006/2007”, del quale vengono elencati capitoli di intervento e di spesa.Gli obiettivi delle strategie di politica scolastica regionale sono sintetizzati in lotta alla dispersione scolastica e valorizzazione dei talenti e delle […]

E’ stato adottato settimana scorsa il Piano d’Azione Ue per le foreste, impegno solenne per la futura gestione sostenibile dell’ambiente boschivo assunto l’anno scorso da Bruxelles con la “relazione sulla messa in atto della strategia forestale dell’Unione europea”. Il documento – disponibile nel sito Internet a target=’_blanck’ href=http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/fore/action_plan/index_fr.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/fore/action_plan/index_fr.htm – è suddiviso in 4 obiettivi principali: […]