Redazione

WOMEN

“European women are a more than ever important lay resource, now that the multicultural, multiethnic and multi-religious challenge is transforming the face of our society. At such a delicate and challenging a time for the growth of the European Union, we women theologians want to question ourselves about the role that religion can play to […]

WYD

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105): that’s the motto chosen by Benedict XVI for the 21st World Youth Day, which this year is being celebrated at diocesan level on 9 April, Palm Sunday. To mark the occasion an international meeting of WYD delegates is being […]

FRONT PAGE

Our world is experiencing a multicultural revolution that brings with it risks of culture conflicts linked to the new situation created by immigration with no prospect of return to the country of origin. These conflicts or tensions are linked to the arrival in Europe of non-Christian populations that have ways of life very different from […]

The European deficit in external trade remains very high, in spite of the slight fall registered between December 2005 and January 2006. According to Eurostat data, the exponential increase of the energy deficit (from minus 148.3 billion euros in 2004 to minus 220.7 billion in 2005, especially to the advantage of Russia and Norway) has […]

http://www.visiteeuropee.com. That’s the website of the new Eu portal dedicated to European tourist destinations, inaugurated during the Conference of European Ministers of Tourism held in Vienna on 21 March, in tandem with an international symposium on “Tourism: a decisive factor for growth and employment in Europe”. Despite the fact that the economic data of the […]

Wine, cheese, fruit, vegetables and meat, all rigorously of high quality: they are the “export products” of European agriculture for which the Commission has approved new measures of information and promotion outside the Community. The measures in question consist of 8 programmes – for a total budget of 16.4 million euros, of which half covered […]

“It’s a decision that gives legal clarity to the international trade in agricultural produce, as well as being in line with EU legislation”, commented the European Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, in welcoming the agreement reached on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosecurity (Mop3). The third meeting between the 132 contracting parties recently ended in […]

HUMAN RIGHTS

The “need to make greater efforts to combat discrimination, integrate immigrants and national minorities”, the “danger of a possible dilution or erosion of standards in the fight against international terrorism” and the various conflicts present in Europe today: these are some of the recommendations of the 5th annual report of the Commission for Human Rights […]

The Lutheran Church of Sweden for the first time elected its archbishop at Uppsala on Thursday 30 March, thus breaking with a long-standing tradition that conferred on the government the task of appointing the head of the Church. The separation between Church and State in Sweden is in fact comparatively recent: it only dates to […]

A Russian Orthodox Church dedicated to the protomartyr Saint Catherine, venerated by Catholics and Orthodox alike, was consecrated in Rome on Friday, 31 March. The solemn ceremony of inauguration was officiated by Bishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, vice-president of the Department of External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, in the presence of the Russian ambassador […]