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The Catholic bishops of Belgium have published a 365-page calendar with a prayer for every day and have succeeded in selling 30,000 copies within days. It’s a “book” that has become a genuine bestseller and at the same time a bibliographic rarity. According to reports in the Belgian press, there are no plans for a […]

The secretaries of the eight Central European Bishops’ Conferences (Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary) that took part in the great pilgrimage to Mariazell in 2004 met in the Marian sanctuary on 16 January. Between 5 and 8 February 2006, as part of a pilgrimage to Rome, the representatives of the […]

The French Bishops’ Conference has asked those in charge of the transmission “Le Jour du Seigneur” (The Lord’s Day) to help the Catholic television network KTO, which is facing major financial difficulties. According to a communiqué of the French bishops, released by the Apic press agency, the bishops of the permanent Council have asked the […]

“Everybody’s welcome” is the programme launched by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales in response to “Listening 2004”, the report compiled on the basis of the interviews conducted with 15,000 faithful. From this 70-page document published last year it emerged that Catholic families in England sought support and assistance from the Church, but […]

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We publish the full text of the message of the bishops of the Coordination of the European and North American Bishops’ Conferences in support of the Church of the Holy Land issued on 19 January, at the end of their sixth pastoral visit to Jerusalem which began on 14 January. As Catholic bishops we came […]

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A year and a half after Malta’s entry into the European Union, despite the difficulties that the island is going through, the clear division in public opinion about the wisdom or not of that entry has been greatly reduced and now seems a distant memory. The country now seems more united in tackling the challenges […]

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Con la legge regionale 69 del 30 dicembre 2005 (cosiddetta legge finanziaria 2006), la Regione Campania ha istituito il reddito per la vita a vantaggio delle donne in allattamento. Obiettivo è aiutare le donne in condizioni economiche disagiate residenti in Campania (italiane o straniere con regolare permesso di soggiorno), che partoriscono nell’anno finanziario 2006 e […]

“Oggi di fronte alla duplice tentazione del fondamentalismo o dell’annacquamento religioso”, gli spazi “più concreti per declinare culturalmente la speranza sono ancora le parrocchie”.Lo ha detto al SIR mons. Domenico Sigalini, vescovo di Palestrina e presidente del Centro di orientamento pastorale (Cop), tracciando un bilancio di quanto emerso dall’VIII simposio teologico-pastorale che si è svolto […]

Luci ed ombre dalla quinta edizione dello “European Innovation Scoreboard”, sorta di stati generali dell’innovazione in Europa che calcola il grado di innovazione e le tendenze future basandosi sui dati raccolti Paese per Paese in base a cinque indicatori: motori dell’innovazione, creazione della conoscenza, innovazione e imprenditorialità, misure di applicazione della performance e proprietà intellettuale. […]

Sono stati approvati dalla Commissione venticinque programmi, presentati da quattordici Stati membri (Belgio, Cipro, Germania, Grecia, Italia, Spagna, Francia, Ungheria, Austria, Olanda, Polonia, Svezia, Finlandia e Regno Unito), destinati a contribuire all’informazione ed alla promozione relativa ai prodotti agricoli europei: il totale del cofinanziamento comunitario si eleva a 25,5 milioni di Euro. La portata dei […]