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Il cancelliere dello Scacchiere, Gordon Brown, ha incontrato nei giorni scorsi i rappresentanti della Caritas-Social action della Chiesa cattolica, dando il proprio sostegno alla campagna per la giustizia sociale “Short Straw” che si occupa di anziani, famiglie emarginate e disabili mentali. Secondo quanto riferisce la Chiesa in un comunicato, il cancelliere ha incoraggiato la Caritas […]

La tradizionale missione quaresimale celebrata in molte parrocchie della Romania (13-20 marzo) diventa “popolare” a Tirgu Jiu. I missionari raggiungono in questi giorni la gente nelle loro abitazioni per annunciare direttamente la Parola di Dio. La missione “popolare” dura una settimana e intende incontrare tutte le famiglie della parrocchia e i partecipanti ai Centri d’ascolto […]

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I quindici ministri degli Esteri dell’Ue, riuniti a Bruxelles il 16 marzo, hanno deciso di rinviare i negoziati con la Croazia che sarebbero dovuti cominciare il 17 marzo. Al momento non sarebbe stata fissata nessuna altra data per l’apertura dei colloqui. Sulla decisione ha pesato una non adeguata collaborazione del governo di Zagabria con il […]

“ The Vatican goes on the offensive against the ‘Da Vinci Code’” is the headline carried on the front page of the International Herald Tribune (17/3), emphasising the Holy See’s advice “ to Christians not to buy and still less read the thriller that has become a bestseller“. The journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal reports an interview […]

The President of the European Commission Josè Manuel Durao Barroso and the Commissioner for employment and social affairs, Vladimir Spidla, announced in Brussels last week the creation of a new European Institute for Equal Opportunities between men and women (endowed with an overall budget of 52.5 million Euros for the period 2007-2013, to which will […]

“After consulting the Foreign Press Association, we have decided to re-introduce translation in all languages, whenever possible, for the press conferences held on days other than Wednesdays”, said the spokesperson of the European Commission, Françoise Le Bail. The announcement effectively ends the dispute over the limitation to English, French and German for the simultaneous translation […]

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called a Euro-demonstration in Brussels on 19 March. Its purpose is to defend employment and fundamental social rights and to demonstrate against the so-called Bolkestein Directive on the liberalization of services in Europe’s internal market (a Directive which EU Commissioner McCreevy recently declared he was willing to amend, […]

To mark International Women’s Day, the European Watchdog on Drugs (EMCDDA) has published a study, according to which ever more European women are making use of drugs. According to the watchdog’s experts, there has been a “closing of the gap” in Europe over the last few years, caused especially by a rise in drug use […]

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First a press release of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to publicly enunciate the values that the Catholic Church has at heart, in view of the forthcoming general elections (perhaps on 5 May). Then the appreciation expressed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor for the proposal made by Conservative leader Michael Howard that the time […]

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In recent months, apart from the mobilization of humanitarian aid for South-East Asia and various ecumenical projects, as reported by SirEurope, the issue of church-state relations has bulked large in the agenda of numerous Bishops’ Conferences of Europe. Below we give a summary of the last number of “Litterae communionis” published by the Ccee. ALBANIA: […]