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“I wish to express my infinite thanks to God for granting me the grace to survive the long years of persecution and be a witness of and participant in the liberation, rebirth and development of the Church in Belarus. This is an immense joy: that of seeing churches packed with faithful, seeing the Church grow, […]

A more visible commitment of Europe to Bosnia-Herzegovina, which, nine years after the end of the war, has still not completely recovered from its psychological and social injuries, is urged by the European Commissions of Justice and Peace, that met for their annual assembly at Sarajevo from 25 to 28 September. These commissions form an […]

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“Pass from dialogue to mission and evangelization”: that’s the invitation with which Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, greeted the national delegates of university apostolate of the European Episcopal Conferences who met in the Austrian capital in recent days in a meeting promoted by the CCEE (cf. Sir 64/2004). The cardinal described two events that […]

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan has good reasons for being pleased. At the end of his visit to Brussels, on 23 September, he put an end to the crisis that threatened to dash Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union (EU). The report of the Turkish Parliament’s adoption of the reform of the penal […]

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Two images perhaps better than any others sum up the turning point represented by the “Semaine sociale de France” – the social week of French Catholics – held in Lille from 23 to 26 September: Europe and youth.The “pride without arrogance” of being European citizens, the message of peace and justice that comes from the […]

Whereas provisions aimed at reducing weekly hours of works (comprised between 35 and 40 hours) are being discussed in many countries of the Union, the EU institutions are evaluating a document that would limit the cases in which it is possible to introduce a working week in excess of 48 hours. According to a document […]

The Commission has expressed a favourable judgement on the reform of governance three years after the White Paper of 2001. The efforts undertaken to “make the policies of the Union more effective and to bring citizens closer to government” have been “positive”, says a report signed by the Prodi Executive and issued in Brussels in […]

Eyes are being focused on the Committee of the Regions in Brussels this week. The “Open Days” of the advisory institution established ten years ago thanks to the Treaty of Maastricht are planned from 27 to 30 September. On the programme is a week of events (debates, seminars, exhibitions, visits) with the aim of “relaunching […]

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A Europe that places among its founding values the dignity of the person, the equality of human beings, freedom and respect for reason, and that is inspired “by the cultural, religious and humanistic inheritance” of the continent (having decided to pass over in silence the Christian roots of its history). A community of peoples and […]

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“What is particularly striking in an international scenario full of conflicts like the present one is the contradiction between the conflict that is increasingly characterised as ‘low intensity’ and the ‘high intensity’ suffering of the civilian population”. So said the chairman of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) JAKOB KELLENBERGER , in his […]