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Durante la messa di venerdì 13 gennaio, festa del patrono di Glasgow, San Mungo, l’arcivescovo della città, mons. Mario Conti, primate dei cattolici scozzesi, ha chiesto ai fedeli di resistere “agli attacchi indiretti” portati ai valori tradizionali. “Oggi – ha detto – l’attacco è indiretto all’ordine morale che è l’eredità di tutti i cristiani e […]

PRIMA PAGINA" "

La costruzione dell’unità europea non è certamente un lungo fiume tranquillo. Dal 9 maggio 1950, data della Dichiarazione di Robert Schuman che lanciò il processo che portò dalle prime Comunità all’Unione europea, la storia di questa costruzione è stata costellata da insuccessi, crisi e negoziati senza fine. Eppure, tra sospensioni e nuove accelerazioni, l’Europa non […]

The “European Innovation Scoreboard”, a kind of chart table assessing the degree of innovation in Europe, an initiative of the European Commission’s Innovation Policy Development Unit, is now in its fifth year. It calculates the degree of innovation and future tendencies by assessing the data collected country by country on the basis of five indicators: […]

The European Commission has approved 25 programmes, presented by fourteen member states (Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Austria, Holland, Poland, Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom), aimed at contributing to information and promotion relating to European agricultural products: the total of the EU co-financing has been increased to 25.5 million euros. The […]

The Committee of the Regions (COR) of the European Union (www.cor.eu.int) has published the results of a survey conducted in the 103 regional and local Authorities represented within the COR and in 16 national organizations. The survey findings clearly express the general dissatisfaction of European Regions and Cities about the minimum role played by them […]

The European Commission adopted a Communication last week with the objective of contributing to the definition of a clear and definitive tax regime for small and medium European businesses that conduct trans-national activities. The Executive – at the request both of employers’ associations and of the competent national authorities – proposes the principle of so-called […]

MIGRATION" "

Appeals to solidarity among nations, to responsibility, to respect for the dignity of the migrant as a human person: these are some of the positions expressed by the Churches of the European countries bordering the Mediterranean on the occasion of the 92nd World Day of the Migrant and the Refugee celebrated throughout the world on […]

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There is a counter-tendency in progress as far as vocations are concerned in the Catholic Church of England and Wales. Vocations have grown over the last four years. The reasons for this upswing, according to the national vocations office, are to be sought in a better information campaign that makes aspirants to the priesthood more […]

austria" "

A significant drop in the number of apostasies and a growth in those who return to the Church: that is the encouraging finding of the latest statistics on the Austrian Catholic Church. The Church statistics relating to 2005, subdivided by dioceses, were published on 10 January. They reveal a trend more or less common to […]

The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of African Missions (SAM) is being celebrated in 2006. The SAM was founded in Lyon (France), in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fourvière, on 8 December 1856, thanks to Bishop de Marion Brésillac who joined with a group of others in “consecrating themselves to the […]