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Al rapimento in Iraq della tedesca Susanne Osthoff sono dedicati diversi commenti della stampa tedesca. Tra questi, Jacques Schuster per Die Welt (30/11) scrive: “ Ed ora, la guerra in Iraq ha raggiunto anche i tedeschi. Per molto tempo hanno creduto che a chi non avesse truppe non sarebbe successo niente. La cattura di Susanne […]

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Tassare l’inquinamento anziché il lavoro. L’Agenzia europea dell’ambiente (Eea la sigla inglese) suggerisce alcune ricette per combattere lo smog, che minaccia la salute delle persone e influisce pesantemente sulla natura. L’occasione per lanciare proposte concrete in questa direzione si è avuta martedì 29 novembre, con la presentazione della relazione quinquennale dell’agenzia Ue con sede a […]

Il summit Euromed che ha riunito nei giorni scorsi a Barcellona 35 capi di Stato e di Governo è servito anche per “valorizzare il ruolo delle religioni nella costruzione dell’Europa mediterranea”. Lo dice al Sir don Antoni Matabosch, presidente della Fondazione Joan Maragall (www.fundaciojoanmaragall.org) per la fede e la cultura dell’arcidiocesi di Barcellona: “Una delle […]

Various comments in the German press are dedicated to the kidnapping in Iraq of the German aid worker Susanne Osthoff. Writing in Die Welt (30/11), Jacques Schuster comments: “ And now, the war in Iraq has reached even the Germans. For a long time they believed that nothing would happen to those countries that did […]

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Taxing pollution instead of labour: that is one of the suggestions made by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). It has also proposed some recipes to combat smog, which is threatening people’s health and having a negative impact on nature. The occasion for it to make specific proposals in this field occurred on Tuesday, 29 November, […]

The Euromed summit that brought together 35 heads of state and of government in Barcelona in recent days also served to “enhance the role of religions in the construction of Mediterranean Europe”, said Fr. Antoni Matabosch, president of the Joan Maragall Foundation (www.fundaciojoanmaragall.org) for faith and culture of the archdiocese of Barcelona, in a briefing […]

The Church in Spain supports the campaign for the remission of foreign debt and presents itself as a “ferment of solidarity and concord”, declares Bishop Ricardo Blázquez Perez of Bilbao, President of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, in a statement issued today on the conclusion of the General Assembly of Spanish bishops held in Madrid. The […]

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The Slovene Bishops’ Council (SBC) met for its plenary assembly in Ljubljana on 28-29 November 2005. In the presence of the Apostolic Nuncio in Slovenia, Monsignor Abril y Castelló Santos, the assembly opened with some reports from delegates who had participated in various international meetings, in particular the 11th Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist […]

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“Our society, strongly characterised by all the means of communication, is, paradoxically, a society in which genuine human relations are becoming ever more difficult”. This observation, contained in the message sent by Benedict XVI, was taken on board by the 3800 participants at the 80th Semaine Sociale in France, held in Paris from 25 to […]

“The power of God is far greater than the power of the dictators of this world”, declared Monsignor Justo Mullor Garcia, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, who visited Bulgaria in recent days. “In all the countries of Eastern Europe – he said in a statement to SIR – there is nostalgia for the dictators […]