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Four Palestinian youth will also go to Toronto together with the some 400 Swiss youth who will participate in World Youth Day. In spite of the high costs of travel to Canada, the Swiss youth have chosen to make a gesture of solidarity by assuming the cost of the flight tickets for four Christian young […]

It will the youth of the Czech Republic who will be the first to take delivery of the Toronto WYD Cross. The announcement was made by the 22-year-old Katerina Kubickova, spokesperson of the National Youth Day which will be held at Zdar nad Sazavou (Czech Republic) from 13 to 18 August, in ideal continuation with […]

The steep costs of air travel to Toronto have reduced to 12 the participants in WYD from the island of Malta. They are due to arrive there on 14 July and will be the guests of the Maltese consulate in the city. From 18 to 22 July they will be given accommodation by the parish […]

Some 130 Romanian youngsters from the Catholic Churches of the Latin and oriental rites will participate in WYD in Toronto. From 18 to 22 July they will be guests of the diocese of Montreal, before leaving for Toronto on the 23rd. The Romanian youngsters will be accompanied by some priests and by two bishops: Aurel […]

Some 550 Dutch youngsters will fly to Toronto from the Netherlands to attend WYD from 15 to 18 July. Bearing in mind the distance and the cost of the travel, this is considered a particularly high number of participants for Holland. Some 1,300 participated in the WYD in Rome. For the first time coordinated travel […]

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European youth too have begun preparing for their departure for Toronto (Canada), where the 17th World Youth Day (WYD) will be held from 18 to 28 July, on the theme: “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world”. This year’s WYD is expected to involve some 25,000 volunteers, 129 parishes […]

The “ Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for policies and actions regarding reproductive and sexual hygiene and connected rights in the developing countries” was published in the Official Gazette of the European Community (OGEC C 151 E/260) of 25/6/2002. The draft EC law – which in the intentions […]

COMECE , the Commission of the episcopates of the European Community, judges “deplorable” and “inopportune” the European Parliament’s adoption of the “Report on sexual and reproductive health and rights” and the corresponding Resolution, approved by the European Parliament at Strasbourg on 3 July. The Secretariat of COMECE, in a statement, expresses its total disagreement with […]

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On 3 July the European Parliament discussed and approved (280 votes in favour, 240 against, 28 abstentions) the report and draft resolution of the Belgian Socialist Anne Van Lancker on “Sexual and reproductive health and rights” (cf. SirEurope no.19 of 16/5/2002). The document, adopted in the Commission for women’s rights and equal opportunities on 6 […]

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Con 280 voti a favore, 240 contrari e 28 astensioni il Parlamento europeo ha adottato lo scorso 3 luglio la risoluzione “sui diritti sessuali e riproduttivi” presentata dalla socialista belga Anne Van Lancker. In particolare all’art. 12 il documento afferma che “al fine di salvaguardare la salute e i diritti riproduttivi femminili l’aborto deve essere […]