Redazione

racism" "

“The Rom appear to be the most vulnerable group and the most exposed to racism in the European Union. They suffer discrimination in the sectors of work, housing and education and are regularly the victims of acts of violence”. The 2005 Report of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, a specialized agency of […]

france" "

Is there a problem of transmitting the faith and values to the new generations? How can we overcome this impasse, present in various spheres and societies? These are questions to which answers will be sought by the many experts who are participating this year in the 80th Semaine sociale in France, now being held in […]

The Archbishop Major of Kiev and Galizia and head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), visited Oradea Mare in Romania on 19-20 November, the guest of the local bishop of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church Virgil Bercea. An historic event was at the basis of this visit: the representatives of the Orthodox Church […]

ukraine" "

264,000 voluntary interruptions of pregnancy in 2004; over 5 million in the last 14 years; almost 900,000 couples sterile due to the woman (in 80% of cases following voluntary abortion). These are the disturbing figures published by Gyena Samborska, president of Ukraine’s National Fund for Charity “For Human Dignity”, which promoted a conference on abortion […]

A new auxiliary bishop has been appointed at Ljubljana. He is Msgr. Anton Jamnik, hitherto director of the St. Stanislaus Institute in the same archdiocese. Benedict XVI nominated him to the post in recent days and assigned to him the titular see of Vina. Born in Ljubljana in 1961, Jamnik was ordained priest on 29 […]

With a communiqué issued on 22 November, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference, congratulated Angela Merkel on her election as Chancellor by the Bundestag. “I wish you good luck and God’s blessing in the exercise of your office for the good of our community”, writes Lehmann. “In the next legislature, you and […]

The bill on medically assisted procreation “was introduced in Parliament without sufficient public awareness-raising, given that it is a question of great importance and delicacy and of enormous ethical implications”, say the Portuguese bishops in their final communiqué issued at the end of their general Assembly held at Fatima from 14 to 17 November. Though […]

FRONT PAGE" "

Everyone is speaking of Islam – mostly without knowing much about it. There’s an air of preconceived opposition, as in the times of the Cold War. Some recall the “Soviet” nightmare in the period from the 1940s to the 1980s. But there are also some attempts to objectify the question. A few days ago a […]

GIUSTIZIA" "

“La fraternità può diventare nuova linfa per rivitalizzare le relazioni e umanizzare la giustizia”: è il commento degli aderenti a “Comunione e Diritto”, organo del Movimento dei Focolari, che ha promosso a Castelgandolfo (Roma), nei giorni 18-20 novembre, il 1° Convegno internazionale “Relazionalità nel diritto: quale spazio per la fraternità?”. Ai lavori hanno preso parte […]

YOUTH" "

“Many signals of hope are being transmitted by youth today, and everything seems to indicate that it is still possible to give birth to a strong message of faith amid the anonymity of a big city”, says Monsignor Severino Pagani, delegate for youth ministry of the archdiocese of Milan. He has long been active in […]