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From now on religion will be an integral part of the policies of the Labour government, which will hold “faith awareness” courses for the Civil Service. The idea was inserted by Tony Blair in the last Labour electoral manifesto and has become a reality in recent days. All religious groups, from the main ones such […]

Speaking at the Centre of Central European Formation for Evangelization (MEBE) in Vienna on 30 March, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna and president of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, commented on the imminent enlargement of the EU as an occasion for a “great project of reconciliation between the European peoples”. To this end, according to […]

Over 1,500 youth from all the dioceses of Germany welcomed the WYD Cross on its arrival in Berlin on Palm Sunday. During the eucharistic celebration, held in St. John’s basilica and transmitted live by Germany’s second public TV channel (ZDF), a group of Bosnian youth handed over the Cross they had brought with them from […]

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“The Christian churches in the UK could disappear in the space of one or two generations if the faithful continue to abandon them at the speed at which they are doing so today”, concludes “Christian Research” , a Protestant organization that publishes statistics on the Churches in Great Britain every three months. According to the […]

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Europe? It’s especially an opportunity to solve youth unemployment that has reached record levels. Faith? Believing in God is not a problem, but it doesn’t much change the realities of life. The young? It’s difficult to involve them in the activities of the Church, they are rather apathetic but they have a real hunger for […]

The French elections also monopolize the attention of the American press . “The future of Raffarin precarious after the vote”, is for example the headline carried on the front page of the Herald Tribune (30/3, over an article signed by Katrin Bennhold in which she reports that “a day after the crushing defeat in the […]

The annual Conference of the European Agency for the development of education for persons with special needs was held in Dublin from 24 to 27 March. The Agency, chaired by the Irishman David Thomas, is an independent body established in 1996. It represents public and private institutions in 22 European countries. Its aim is to […]

To mark World Water Day (22/3), the EU’s Council of general affairs and external relations adopted the proposal of the Commission, dating to 2003, relating to a project aimed at promoting access to clean and healthy water for the populations of the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific). The so-called Water Facility forms part of […]

The President of the African Union (AU), Alpha Omar Konarè, met Romano Prodi and the European Commissioners in Brussels last week to review the relations between the two major international organizations of continental character. The EU and AU delegations discussed and reinforced the strategic partnership between the European Union and Africa, with the declared objective […]

The European Commissioner for regional policy, Michel Barnier, presented a study of the Executive relating to the mountain areas of Europe in Brussels last week. It appears only a few weeks after the publication of the third Report on cohesion policy for the enlarged EU, as part of which provision is made for the adoption […]