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As established by the Brussels Summit ten months ago, the European Commission will present, in the course of 2005, a proposed regulation for the setting up of an agency for the fundamental rights of the European Union to take the place of the Vienna-based European watchdog for racist and xenophobic phenomena. To prepare this transformation […]

monthly agenda" "

We present the main events involving the Catholic Church and the other European Christian Churches in November. 4 Plenary Assembly of the French Episcopal Conference (4-9), at Lourdes; on the order of the day, catechesis and the reorganization of the structures of the Conference itself. Meeting of the European Council (4-5), in Brussels. 5 Meeting […]

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A questionnaire of 52 questions aimed at evaluating the situation of a country’s press freedom, has been distributed by the association ‘Reporters without Frontiers’ to its partner organizations – 14 associations in defence of press freedom in five continents -, and to its network of 130 correspondents and other journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights […]

“The heritage of Marco Polo – trade round the world” is the theme chosen by 22 organizations and groups that are involved in development policy and participating in this year’s international trade fair in Berlin “Import-Shop Berlin”, a fair of culture and the arts and crafts in which many exhibitors from the southern hemisphere are […]

Patriarch Maksim, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, has celebrated his 90th birthday and has become the world’s most elderly church primate. He remains a controversial figure in Bulgarian history due to his 33-year patriarchate, in large part under the former Communist regime. To mark his 90th birthday, celebrations have been held in Bulgaria, in […]

Ecumenism" "

The debate on whether it is appropriate for the State to finance the construction and the management of places of worship, and whether there is a need to reform the law of 1905 that sanctioned the absolute separation between Church and State, has been re-opened in France. The question has been put back on the […]

catholics and lutherans" "

The fifth anniversary of the Augsburg Declaration on Justification was celebrated at Johannesburg, in South Africa, in recent days. It was in fact on 31 October 1999 that Pastor Ishmael Noko , general secretary of the World Lutheran Federation (WLF), and Cardinal Walter Kasper , president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, signed an […]

bosnia herzegovina" "

Almost ten years ago the Dayton accords (December 1995) put an end to three and half years of bitter conflict in Bosnia (1992-1995) and created a particular structure composed of two entities, which has no parallel in any other political system in the world. Bosnia Herzegovina in fact consists of two parts: the Federation of […]

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The debate in various European countries on bioethical issues, in particular on assisted procreation and research on embryonal stem cells, is becoming ever more heated. A decree has recently been approved in Spain that facilitates the “law of assisted reproduction”; the law makes provision, among other things, for the use for research purposes of frozen […]

Così come stabilito dal Vertice di Bruxelles dieci mesi fa, nel corso del 2005 la Commissione esecutiva presenterà una proposta di regolamento per l’istituzione di una Agenzia per i diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea al posto dell’Osservatorio europeo dei fenomeni razzisti e xenofobi che ha oggi sede a Vienna. Al fine di preparare al meglio tale […]