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Con un messaggio diffuso il 15 luglio, il card. Karl Lehmann, presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca, ha espresso la solidarietà dei vescovi tedeschi al presidente della Conferenza episcopale dello Zimbabwe, mons. Bischof Michael D. Bhasera, contro i provvedimenti del governo locale adottati nelle ultime settimane la cosiddetta “Operation restore order”. Con il provvedimento, oltre 200.000 […]

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Si sente già la Gmg nell’aria in Germania: uno dei motivi è l’avvio a Dresda, l’otto luglio scorso del pellegrinaggio “Tracce della Croce” (Kreuzspuren), una marcia di 750 km che attraverserà la Germania da Est a Ovest, utilizzando vie di pellegrinaggio storiche. Ma ormai è Gmg ovunque, persino sui francobolli: è stato infatti presentato il […]

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Il terrorismo internazionale era all’attenzione dell’Unione europea già da prima degli attentati alle Torri gemelle di New York. Ma con l’11 settembre 2001 il “nemico invisibile” diventa un “ospite fisso”, per quanto sgradito, nell’agenda comunitaria. Dopo Madrid e Londra ha così ripreso quota la strategia di contrasto formulata negli ultimi anni a Bruxelles, che peraltro […]

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Countries – Serbia and Bulgaria – torn for centuries between Byzantium, the West and Moscow; peoples that experienced the evangelising mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, but also the Turkish yoke and, in more recent years, Communist regimes. The next rendezvous with history will be with the EU… The 27th European Studies Week promoted by […]

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“Reconciliation between friends and enemies, between victors and losers, is necessary to guarantee a future to Europe; but the absence of any distinction between victims and executioners leads to a generalized loss of political responsibility that does not bode well”, says SOPHIE WAHNICH, researcher of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Reviewing […]

The terrorist attacks in London have displaced attention from the cause of Africa, but the decisions taken by the leaders of the G8, meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, from 6 to 8 July, “will not make poverty become past history”. With this assertion that echoes, in a negative key, the motto of the anti-poverty campaign (Make […]

Eleven years after the admission of women to the priesthood, Anglicans in England have decided to open the way to the female episcopate. With 367 votes in favour and 127 against, the General Synod of the Church of England, meeting at York, gave the go-ahead to the process of removing the legal obstacles that currently […]

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On Tuesday, 12 July, twelve representatives of churches, religious institutions and communities belonging to the Christian, Jewish and Moslem traditions met with the President of the European Commission, Manuel Barroso. The aim of the meeting: to re-affirm the commitment of the participants “to building a free, united, prosperous and peaceful Europe, characterized by solidarity, in […]

“It is vital that all those contrary to euthanasia do all they can to prevent assisted suicide from becoming law”, said the archbishop of Cardiff (Great Britain) Peter Smith, commenting on the vote at the end of June in the British Medical Association (BMA) which removed its opposition to the amendment of the law that […]

A document called “never again Srebrenica”, drawn up by the Justice and Peace Commission of Luxembourg, has been published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the massacre of Srebrenica (11 July 1995). It recommends that “a new impulse be given to the peace process”, starting out from the consciousness not only that “Bosnia and Herzegovina […]