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SPAIN

Alicante hosts the Social Week of Spain, October 23 to 25. “For a new society. Challenges and Proposals” is the theme of this 42nd edition of the event organized by the Spanish Bishops’ Conference that brings together national and international experts. A milestone in social thinking. Monsignor Jesús Murgui, bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, welcoming the fact […]

SPAGNA

Alicante ospita la Settimana sociale di Spagna, dal 23 al 25 ottobre. “Per una società nuova. Sfide e proposte”, il tema di questa edizione numero 42. L’evento, organizzato dalla Conferenza episcopale spagnola, riunisce esperti nazionali e internazionali. Pietra miliare per il pensiero sociale. Monsignor Jesús Murgui, vescovo di Orihuela-Alicante, manifestando apprezzamento per il fatto che […]

UKRAINE" "

The long day for Ukraine in the framework of the Asia-Europe summit in Milan (16-17 October) failed to untangle all the knots, while the meeting between Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko did not and could not achieve the objectives of a hoped-for peace. And while in Milan European and […]

EDITORIAL/2

In August, Canadian political expert and writer, Michael Ignatieff, in an article for the “New York Review of Books” presented his vision of the new world order. Accordingly, it is marked by a twofold confrontation of the Western bloc around a central nucleus formed by the United States and the European Union (EU), with capitalistic, […]

POLONIA

“Un biglietto per il fratello”. Si chiama così l’iniziativa di solidarietà della pastorale giovanile polacca in preparazione alla Giornata mondiale della gioventù di Cracovia 2016. Aiutare i giovani in difficoltà dell’est europeo e asiatico, perché possano raggiungere, fra due anni, Cracovia per vivere il grande incontro con il Papa. Perché l’evento sia una vera festa […]

EDITORIALE/2

In agosto il politologo e scrittore canadese Michael Ignatieff ha presentato in un articolo per “New York Review of Books” la sua visione del nuovo ordine mondiale. Questo sarebbe caratterizzato da un doppio confronto del blocco occidentale intorno a un nucleo formato da Stati Uniti e Unione europea (Ue), con regimi capitalisti e autoritari come […]

POLAND

“A ticket for his brother”. It is the initiative of the Poland’s Pastoral Care of the Youth ahead of the World Youth Day in Krakow in 2016: helping young people in difficulty from Eastern Europe and Asia, so that in two years they may attend the great meeting with the Pope in Krakow. The event […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Sweden: map of crimes against religious communities The Swedish government has entrusted to the Council for State Aid to Religious Communities (SST) the task of mapping acts of xenophobia or discrimination against religious communities. The survey, conducted by Göran Larsson (Göteborg University) and Simon Stjernholm (University of Lund), has been carried out in close cooperation […]

EDITORIAL/1

The Extraordinary Bishops’ Synod on the family was a significant moment of the “Outgoing Church” evoked by Pope Francis since the first days of his pontificate. An “outgoing Church” that is not afraid of being “damaged” in the encounter with the world, and which, on the wake of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II, practices the […]

SYNOD

“Now we still have one year to mature, with true spiritual discernment, the proposed ideas and to find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront; to give answers to the many discouragements that surround and suffocate families”. With these words Pope Francis closed his intense, passionate speech – the […]