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“Mi compiaccio per il progetto ‘Mantenere le famiglie a galla’. L’impegno necessario per il sostegno alla vita familiare è molto complesso. Dobbiamo opporci a tutto ciò che sminuisce la famiglia o contribuisce a smantellarla; ecco perché ‘Caritas azione sociale’ e questa iniziativa sono così importanti”. Lo ha affermato nei giorni scorsi il primate cattolico di […]

Sono stati 12 i nuovi sacerdoti cattolici consacrati sabato 5 giugno nei Paesi Bassi. È infatti tradizione del Paese celebrare le ordinazioni nel periodo attorno alla Pentecoste. Queste le sedi delle ordinazioni dei nuovi sacerdoti, a Utrecht, a Den Bosch, a Roermond, ad Haarlem, a Rotterdam. Nel mese di novembre, in coincidenza con la festa […]

“Questo referendum rende sempre più urgente l’adozione di una politica sull’immigrazione che sia globale, equa e trasparente” senza la quale sono a rischio i diritti dei più deboli. E’ il l’avvertimento del Consiglio permanente della Conferenza episcopale irlandese, che ha diffuso nei giorni scorsi una dichiarazione sul referendum di modifica dell’articolo 9 della Costituzione sul […]

The “Third European Meeting of those suffering from poverty” was held in Brussels on 28-29 May. Promoted by the Irish Presidency of the Union in liaison with the European Commission and the associations involved in combating poverty and social exclusion, the meeting – which follows up the previous meetings held under the Belgian and Greek […]

Subject to the approval of Council and Parliament, the European Commission last week voted for a substantial increase of its 2004 budget in favour of the European project for democracy and human rights. 26,625,000 euros are to be added to the 106 Meuro already allocated for the year in course. Two already existing budgetary lines […]

With the aim of “promoting the participation of the main interested parties and the public at large in the definition for measures for combating discrimination”, the European Commission launched a consultation via Internet on Thursday, 3 June. The Consultation, which will run to the end of August, is a follow up to the “Green Paper […]

By deciding to defer to 2007 the introduction of religious services to bless unions between homosexuals, the 300 members of the Canadian Anglican General Synod avoided condemnation by the Anglican evangelicals that would have caused the split of their communion. The decision was hailed by the archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of 77 million […]

“A reference to God is the expression of the spiritual foundations of Europe and therefore deserves a place in the preamble”: the point is made by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Episcopal Conference, and Evangelic Bishop Wolfgang Huber, chairman of the Council of the Evangelic Church of Germany, in a joint letter to […]

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The executive of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Council of the Evangelic Church of Germany (EKD) agree on the “need for an explicit reference to the Christian roots of Europe in the constitutional treaty of the European Union”. This agreement emerged during the meeting of the CEC Executive held at the Evangelic […]

European islam?" "

According to some estimates, some 17 million Muslims are now living in the European Union. There were only 800,000 in 1950. It’s not easy, however, to furnish accurate figures, because Islamic religion makes no provision for a register of believers, of the kind we have in our parishes, and also because most European states reject […]