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The Committee of the Regions is opening its doors from 27 to 30 September. The EU advisory institution, based in Brussels, was established by the Treaty of Maastricht and “baptized” ten years ago. To mark its anniversary it is promoting a week of meetings, conferences and debates “to re-launch the centrality of regional policies as […]

Europe is a “demographic power”. The 25-member Union now has a population of 456 million citizens, outstripping that of the USA (291 million) and Japan (127 million), but very far from that of the People’s Republic of China (1,300,000,000) and India (roughly a billion). This is the demographic situation registered by Eurostat and updated on […]

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European citizens have trust in the EU institutions, but still don’t know the content of the new Constitution. They have altogether a positive image of the Union, but denounce its irrelevance on the world stage. These are some of the findings that emerge from two recent surveys by Eurobarometer, the EU’s own polling agency, conducted […]

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“The Christian roots, which our “European weeks” have helped to document and make known, are beyond question: the problem of their recognition is in fact “political”, not historical”. That is the clear and determined way in which Msgr. Giuseppe Colombo , chairman of the standing Committee of the Paul VI Ambrosian Foundation in Milan, expresses […]

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We present the main events involving the Catholic Church and the other European Christian Churches in September. 2 Start of the new school year in France, overshadowed by the implementation of the law finally approved in March this year that prohibits the ostentatious display of religious symbols in public places: Islamic headscarf, large crosses, kippahs […]

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“Throughout the world there are millions of children who have no family and survive in orphanages: they are nobody’s children”. The “child abandonment” emergency was underlined at the recent international conference held at Bellaria (Italy) by AIBI (Friends of Children Association), also through eyewitness testimonies from various European countries, many in Eastern Europe, in particular […]

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Following in the footsteps of the pilgrims of former days, almost 20,000 youngsters arrived in Santiago de Compostela to experience, from 5 to 8 August, the final days of the European Youth Pilgrimage, called to mark Santiago’s Holy Year. “Santiago is the common home where we anticipate this new Europe, whose prime value is that […]

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Many voices have been raised in Europe to express horror and condemnation for the massacre in the school in Beslan, in North Ossetia (Russian Federation), which has so far claimed 335 victims, of whom 156 children. The bodies of over 100 victims have still to be identified. 565 injured still remain in hospital; over half […]

“Cari amici, sono qui per condividere questo momento che per voi è di impegno su un tema di rilevanza culturale e di gioia anche nel ricordo dei 25 anni di questa manifestazione”.È stato il saluto che Paola Bignardi, presidente dell’Azione cattolica italiana, ha rivolto ai partecipanti del 25° Meeting di Rimini, invitandoli al pellegrinaggio dell’Azione […]

“Lettera ai vescovi della Chiesa cattolica sulla collaborazione dell’uomo e della donna nella Chiesa e nel mondo”. Questo il titolo di un documento che la Congregazione della Dottrina della Fede renderà pubblico sabato 31 luglio. Ne ha dato notizia il 29 luglio la sala stampa della Santa Sede, informando che il testo, di 37 pagine, […]