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Not everyone is anxious to enter the European Union. That’s the case of Bulgaria: “I don’t know if we’ll be ready by 2007 – declares Emanouil Patashev , director of Caritas Bulgaria, in an interview with SirEurope -; with an average minimum monthly income of 55 euros the difference is enormous”. Time is needed to […]

250 religious bookshops and some 3,000 publishing houses with titles of Christian content are participating in the internet project “buchreligion.de”, the first ecumenical portal for the Christian media, presented at Frankfurt on 11 July. The site is organized by the Evangelical Church and the Catholic Church and by their respective structures dedicated to the media. […]

After the catastrophe of the Prestige, the theme chosen for this year’s Day of People of the Sea has become surprisingly topical: “Sea, challenge to solidarity”. On 16 July the Feast of Our Lady of Carmine is celebrated throughout Spain. This year it emphasised the need to help seafaring men, not only materially but also […]

On 15 July, the Chamber of Deputies approved, with 252 votes in favour, 115 against, and 13 abstentions, the law on teachers of Catholic religion in schools of every kind and grade. The appointment of such teachers to the permanent teaching staff, by public competition, is in conformity with the new discipline of the teaching […]

The first session of the plenary assembly of the Czech Catholic Church ended in recent days at Velehrad. The meeting, with the participation of 91 delegates, represented an unique event, since all the dioceses of the Czech Republic attended it and the laity played an active part in it. The plenary assembly had been convened […]

An agreement between the Slovak government and the Holy See on the teaching of Catholic religion was reached on 9 July. “The agreement – explained the spokesman of the Slovak Episcopal Conference, Msgr. Marian Gavenda in a statement to SirEurope – regularizes a ‘practice’ already in force in Slovakia that provides for the teaching of […]

European Churches" "

An appeal against the introduction of yoga in schools next school year has been made by Croatian bishops during the last session of the permanent Council held in Zagreb on 12 July. The Minister of Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, in fulfilment of a decision taken by the government in February, has […]

European universities" "

1200 delegates (including professors, students and chaplains) from state, private and pontifical universities in 40 European countries, led by some fifty rectors and 30 bishops from dioceses with university campuses, are due to attend the Symposium on “University and Church in Europe”, to be held in Rome from 17 to 20 July (cf. Sir 49/2003). […]

From a land of emigration with almost 5 million citizens scattered in 122 countries to a land of immigration: that’s how Portugal has been transformed in recent years. It now has some 450,000 regular immigrants (5% of the population), especially from eastern Europe (in particular from the Ukraine) and from south-eastern Brazil (from the poor […]

immigration" "

A total of 465,000 applications for asylum, 381,000 of them in member countries of the Eu, were presented in Europe in 2002. The European country that received most requests was the Uk with 110,000 applications, followed by Germany (71,000) and France (51,000). 7281asylum applications were presented in Italy, the only European country in which an […]