Redazione

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Lunedì 9 maggio, sulla piazza Rossa a Mosca, 50 leader mondiali hanno ricordato il 60° anniversario della fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La giornata, scandita da una parata militare, dalla deposizione di una corona al milite ignoto e da una cena di gala, è servita anche per incontri come quello del Quartetto (Usa, Russia, Onu […]

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“Oggi, dopo l’adesione dei dieci nuovi Stati membro, il progetto dell’Unione europea ha bisogno di essere vivificato secondo lo spirito che fu alla sua origine, nel 1950”. La grande sfida per l’Europa oggi è capire “come risvegliare l’entusiasmo dei nostri popoli per la causa europea e per l’idea di fraternità tra tutti”. Nasce da questa […]

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“Satisfying through the means of communication the media needs of the local Churches and promoting, through exchange, greater mutual understanding and unity among Christians, in particular between Catholics and Orthodox”. This, as is explained on the website www.crtn.org, is the objective of the Catholic Radio andTelevision Network (CRTN), founded in 1987 and specialized in the […]

For the first time since 1922, the annual assembly of the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies is being held in Lyon from 4 to 13 May to inaugurate the house of Pauline Jaricot, a leading lay figure of the Church due to her life-long dedication to social and missionary work. Chaired by the new President of the […]

“Profound solidarity” and “support for action aimed at returning to a real democracy in the reconstruction of the country and the promotion of social peace” in Togo were expressed by Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, president of the French Bishops’ Conference, in a letter sent on behalf of the French episcopate to Archbishop Philippe Fanoko […]

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“Three challenges should motivate Christians in considering Europe a great cause to which to commit ourselves”, says Father Gabriel Nissim, chairman of the Decere Association, in a reflection written in view of the forthcoming referendum on 29 May, in which French citizens will be asked to vote yes or no to the adoption of the […]

A group of ordinary men are to take part in a unique experiment when they spend 40 days in a monastery “to discover if the 1500-year-old monastic tradition has anything to offer a new generation”: that, in substance, is the aim of a new series on Britain’s BBC2 channel, called “The Monastery”, due to start […]

“The Church has long recognized that it has the duty to use the means of social communication and, in the words of John Paul II, ‘make every effort to tackle the challenges of the new media technologies and use them at the service of the truth of the Gospel'”, says Bishop Joseph Devine, chairman of […]

The Austrian pro-life association “Aktion Leben” has warned of a “bursting of the ethical banks” in Europe in view of the British authorization to produce so-called “designer babies”, i.e. a baby based on techniques of pre-implant diagnosis (PID). “The production of babies for a particular ‘purpose’ means a decided step backwards for human society”, declared […]

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“I am enormously glad about Cologne! Together we shall do something great. I am sure God will bless our efforts”, declared BENEDICT XVI in addressing the organizers of WYD in Cologne, HEINER Koch , general secretary of the 20th WYD, and Georg Austin and Ulrich Hennes , secretaries of WYD, in the course of the […]