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In an attempt to curb the excessive red tape of EU bureaucracy – which too often impedes the capacity of firms to foster growth and employment – the European Commission launched an on line public consultation on 1st June through which it invites businesses and other interested parties to propose solutions to reduce the administrative […]

The European Parliament has adopted a new stance in favour of a greater protection of minorities. With a Resolution approved during the last plenary session in Strasbourg, MEPs call for a reinforcement of the “measures adopted by the public authorities in this field”. They appeal for a condemnation of “all acts and all expressions of […]

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The noble intentions that have supported half a century of European integration seem to have given way to national interests; concerns have been expressed about the failure to ratify the European Constitution in France and Holland, but member states now seem to be devoting their efforts especially to obtaining advantages from the Community budget. The […]

“On the path of God. My little catechism” is the title of the bilingual catechism published by the Committee of the Croatian Bishops’ Conference for pastoral activities among the Roma, presented in Zagreb in recent days. Written in two Romany dialects, Lovar and Bayah, and edited by Sister Karolina Miljak, this is the first catechism […]

The date of the national youth meeting was also announced at the bishops’ assembly: it will be held at Pola on 29-30 April on the theme “The Master is here and is calling you”. During the same bishops’ assembly, some members of the Croatian Bishops’ Conference met the religious provincials. “Meetings like this – observed […]

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The pilgrimage on 24 September to the Marian sanctuary of Brezje (diocese of Ljubljana), the tenth anniversary of the military police campaigns at Bljesak and Oljuja and the project for the church of Croatian martyrs at Udbina (its foundation stone will be laid on 9 September), were the main questions discussed by the Croatian Bishops’ […]

There were 4265 new asylum applications in Ireland in 2004, with a monthly average of more than 355 applications; that is a decline over the monthly figure for 2003 which was 620. Immigrants mainly arrived from Nigeria (37%), Romania (6%), China and Sudan (3%). These are some of the data furnished by the “Refugees Project” […]

A week is being dedicated to political asylum by the Catholic Church of England and Wales from 20 to 25 June. In a press release published to mark Refugee Week, Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue points out: “The fact that the world still finds a need for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and refugee NGOs […]

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“Asylum is a human right”. That’s the motto chosen for 2005 for Refugee Saturday and Sunday, which will be celebrated in Switzerland on 18 and 19 June. It is “a heart-warming motto”, write pastor Thomas Wipf, chairman of the Federation of the Evangelical Churches of Switzerland, Fritz-René Müller, bishop of the Christian Catholic Church of […]

A letter addressed “to the faithful and to all men of good will”, warning them of the danger of the diffusion of occult practices, was issued in recent days by Cardinal Audrys Backis, president of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference (LBC), by its general secretary Msgr. Gintaras Grusas, and by an expert in psychology, Fra Arunas […]