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On 11 December the European Commission announced that it will fund Hesculaep, a project for the coordination of activities of prevention and crisis management in situations of medical emergency. Approximately 100 million cases of medical emergency are registered in the Union each year. The infrastructures and facilities to react to these events vary considerably from […]

The European Commission announced in Brussels in recent days the first results of Net-Era, the plan aimed at networking national research programmes that share the same objectives. The plan, funded by the EU with a budget of 148 million euros, will contribute to the establishment of the European research space by promoting the coordination of […]

The commission for petitions of the European Parliament recently approved, by unanimous vote, a resolution on the effects of discrimination in healthcare against people affected by multiple sclerosis in the European Union. The resolution will be examined by Parliament on 18 December. The document is based on the ascertainment of disparities in the treatment provided […]

The Ecumenical Day of the Churches, held in Berlin in May this year with the participation of over 200,000 people, will be repeated: in a joint communiqué issued on 9 December, the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and the Evangelic organization for the Ecumenical Day have announced “their intention to organize a second Day […]

Making prayer services “interesting and accessible to everyone”; being “open to symbols cherished by other Christians and, if they are strange to you, asking what they mean”; “adapting the material to local contexts” and “reaching out to Churches and communities that have not participated in the Week of Prayer before”. These are some of the […]

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The “Inter-Anglican Commission for Ecumenical Relations” met in Florida (USA) from 29 November to 5 December. In a special resolution, the members of the Commission have expressed “profound regret for the repercussions on international ecumenical dialogue caused by the consecration in the Episcopalian Church of a bishop involved in a homosexual relationship”. In particular, says […]

France" "

The report of the Bernard Stasi Commission was presented in France on Thursday, 11 December. The Commission was given the task of listening to and taking into examination the views of French citizens on the lay State, in the light of the debate opened in France due to the ever-growing presence of communities of different […]

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“Christian action and the network against the trafficking of women”: that’s the title of the document published by the Commission for Migrants of the Conference of European Churches (CCME) and by Caritas Europe, presented in Brussels on 10 December. “The trafficking of women – says Torsten Moritz , spokesman of the Commission – is one […]

IGC (1)" "

After the failure of the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels, we present a first series of comments and reactions by the various European Episcopal Conferences. Slovakia “The failure of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) has shown up the splits between EU member states. But if on the one hand this causes the deferment of fundamental questions for […]

Germania" "

Riforme dello Stato sociale: in Germania se ne discute da mesi. Su questo tema, il 12 dicembre 2003 la Commissione per le questioni sociali della Conferenza episcopale tedesca ha presentato un contributo che ripropone “l’opzione fondamentale per le persone svantaggiate nella nostra società”. Ne abbiamo parlato con mons. Josef Homeyer , vescovo di Hildesheim e […]