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The fact that Europe has been experiencing a process of reconstruction and the search for a new identity in recent decades is incontestable. Europe today has been reborn from the rubble of two world wars, and from the attempt to heal the very deep divisions between the peoples and cultures that compose it. Irrespective of […]

Law on immigration, euthanasia and biotechnologies: these are the main issues discussed at the meeting of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) in Bonn on 7 May. On the conclusion of the discussion, Hans Joachim Meyer, chairman of the ZdK, made various appeals to the German government on these issues. With regard to the […]

“The archdiocese of Cologne is a suitable place to host the 20th World Youth Day in 2005″, concluded Msgr. Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, at the end of a reconnaissance mission conducted in Cologne in recent days. “We hope that WYD in Germany will offer responses to the faith of […]

The “Bioethics” Work Group of the Conference of Swiss Bishops “welcome with enthusiasm the principal objective” of the Directives on medical ethics of the Academy of Medical Sciences (ASSM) concerning the “care for terminal patients”, but “energetically oppose the moral support” that the ASSM “would like to give to assisted suicide”. The position of the […]

The extraordinary assembly of the Slovenian Episcopal Conference with the Union of Superiors Major of Slovenia (KORUS) was held at Mekinje on 11 May. At the centre of discussion was the report presented by Father Vinko Škafar, professor of pastoral theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana, with the title: “Inter-religious […]

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“A dream that has begun to come true”: that’s how Cardinal Walter Kasper , president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, defined the congress “Together to discover and share the riches” which brought together some 2000 representatives of 175 movements and communities of all Christian confessions (Catholic, Evangelic, Orthodox and Anglican) […]

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The regional Conference held by Caritas Europe is being held at Dubrovnik, in Croatia, from 11 to 15 May. Msgr. Aldo Giordano , general secretary of the CCEE, addressed the conference on its inaugural day. A new chapter in the history of europe. Msgr. Giordano pointed out the “particular interest” with which the Churches are […]

For the second time in 2004, the European Commission has decided to recover from member countries huge sums allocated by the Agricultural Funds due to “inadequate controls and failure to conform to Community rules” by the competent national authorities. The sums that Brussels intends to claw back from nine member states amount to a total […]

Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union, has published data according to which the unemployment rate of the member countries of the single currency has remained stable at 8.8% in March, with no reduction over February (and with a slight increase over the same period of 2003). For the first time since the accession […]

Eurodac, the European data bank for the testing and control of fingerprints of asylum seekers and clandestine immigrants, in operation for just over a year, published a report on 5 May, according to which 17,287 people presented asylum applications simultaneously in more than one state of the Union in 2003. The phenomenon, known as “asylum […]