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tv and minors " "

The need to foster periodic exchanges of data, promote research, and disseminate “good practices” already tested by the national agencies dedicated to the protection of children was expressed at the European meeting of the Committee for the protection of minors in TV, held in Rome on 9 January. The meeting reviewed and compared the activities […]

The archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has urged Christians throughout the world to make efforts to visit Bethlehem as a place of pilgrimage and to remember the suffering population of the city in their prayers. In a letter to the Mayor of Bethlehem, Victor Batarseh, the archbishop expresses his concerns about the situation of Christians […]

“Hear, O Israel! The first of the Ten Commandments: “I am the Lord thy God” is the theme chosen this year for the Day of Judaism which will be celebrated on the vigil of the Week of Christian Unity in all Italian dioceses on Tuesday 17 January. Introduced in 1990, the Day has the aim […]

A Commission was established by the Norwegian government in 2003 with the task of examining and updating the system of relations between the Lutheran Church of Norway and the State. Its conclusions are awaited at the end of January but, although the members of the Commission have so far given no indication of their findings, […]

ecumenism " "

The President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, received the country’s religious authorities in the Elysée for the usual New Year’s exchange of good wishes on 5 January. The religious leaders attending the meeting were: Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the mosque in Paris and chairman of the French Council of Moslem cult; the Archbishop of […]

Ukraine" "

The Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the government of premier Yuri Yekhanurov on 10 January, rejecting the deal struck by the government on Russian gas, reached by President Yushenko after hard bargaining with the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom. The government of Ukraine has however said that it will remain in office […]

turkey " "

The release from prison of John Paul II’s would-be assassin, Alì Agca, and the spread of the deadly virus of avian flu (H5N1) are, in recent days, bringing Turkey to the centre of public attention. Turkey is a country increasingly engaged in the slow process of European integration. And the probable visit of Benedict XVI, […]

The 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Cana Movement (CM) is now being celebrated in Malta and Gozo. An association involved in the family apostolate, the CM was founded in January 1956 thanks to the work of the then young Maltese priest Charles Vella, who has worked in Milan for thirty years. The intuition […]

At the end of 2005, 15 years since it “came out of the catacombs” and since its public pastoral ministry was resumed, the Greek-Catholic Church in Belarus comprised 20 parishes, 13 of them registered by the civil authorities. Ten priests are involved in its pastoral service, and 15 seminarians are studying in the seminaries of […]

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“You’ll have problems in Brussels” is one of the warnings we often hear. Usually they refer to environmental regulations, agricultural prescriptions, technologies. But sometimes they also concern civil liberties. Calling certain problems by their proper name causes resentment. The politically correct replaces with incredible effectiveness the former opinion-makers of the Communist Party. We are used […]