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In una conferenza stampa tenuta a Berlino nei giorni scorsi, il presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca, card. Karl Lehmann, e il presidente del Consiglio della Chiesa evangelica (Ekd), Wolfgang Huber, hanno annunciato il tema dell’edizione di quest’anno della “Settimana per la vita”, che verrà inaugurata il 24 aprile ad Aquisgrana e che si concluderà il […]

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Mancanza di preti, un problema urgente anche per la Chiesa della Gran Bretagna. Oggi i sacerdoti diocesani britannici, esclusi i diaconi permanenti (601), sono 4274 per poco più di 3000 parrocchie, ma si calcola che tra quindici anni saranno circa la metà. Col documento “The Sign we give”, ovvero “Il segno che diamo” del 1995 […]

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Dopo Cipro, Polonia, Malta, Slovenia, Ungheria e Slovacchia (cfr. Sir nn.14-15-18-20-22-23/2004), ospite della nostra rassegna di Paesi che il 1° maggio faranno ingresso nell’Unione europea è, questa settimana, la Repubblica ceca. Adesione approvata dai cittadini con il 77,3% dei ‘sì’ espressi in occasione dell’apposito referendum del 13-14 giugno 2003. Su una popolazione di 10 milioni […]

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Good intentions, some deals on specific points and, altogether, a political climate favourable to reaching an agreement within a reasonable time. The European Council in Brussels on 25-26 March ended with a plan to tackle terrorism and with two promises: to finalise the text of the Constitution in time for the summit in mid-June and […]

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EuroNews, the “voice of the Europeans”, is a television news channel that transmits every half hour a news bulletin on world events as seen from the Old Continent. It also covers lifestyles, society, sport, culture, health, and life of the EU institutions. The whole bulletin is simultaneously broadcast in seven languages; French, English, German, Italian, […]

An appeal to the Scottish State to do more to support couples in crisis has been made by Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of Scottish Catholics. The cardinal criticised the new bill on the family now before the Scottish Parliament that will accelerate even further the times for divorce, making it possible for couples to obtain […]

“100 commitments for the family”: that’s the programme presented to Portuguese families by the prime minister Durão Barroso in recent days, with the aim of “combating the exclusion of the elderly and helping those families in which both husband and wife are workers”. According to Margarida Neto, national coordinator of family policies, these 100 commitments […]

At a press conference held in Berlin in recent days, the president of the German Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, and the president of the Council of the Evangelic Church (EKD), Wolfgang Huber, announced the theme of this year’s “Pro-Life Week”, which will be inaugurated in Aachen on 24 April and end on 1st May. […]

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The shortage of priests is also an urgent problem for the Church of Great Britain. Today there are 4274 British diocesan priests, excluding permanent deacons (601), to serve just over 3000 parishes, but it is calculated that their number will be reduced by roughly half in fifteen years time. In its document “The Sign We […]

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After Cyprus, Poland, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary and Slovakia (cf. Sir nos.14-15-18-20-22-23/2004), our review of the countries that will join the European Union on 1st May this week turns the spotlight on the Czech Republic. Its EU membership was approved by 77.3% of citizens in the referendum held on 13-14 June 2003. Out of a population […]