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United Kingdom

“Secure Borders, Safe Haven”: that’s the title of the British government’s new proposed legislation on immigration which will be voted on in Parliament by the end of this year. The Home Minister has decided to organize “courses in citizenship” and lessons in the English language for foreigners who have lived in the UK for years […]

BSE

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE) is a degenerative disease of the brain that fatally strikes the central nervous system of cattle. BSE belongs to the group of Transmittable Spongiform Encephalopathies ( TSE). It was diagnosed for the first time in the United Kingdom in 1986, rapidly reaching epidemic proportions due to the presence in cattle […]

BSE

The BSE or “mad cow disease” crisis, which seemed to have been got under control, has returned to the front page stories of the press throughout Europe, also following a suspected case of Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease affecting a girl in Sicily and new cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in Denmark and Finland. On 6 February, […]

environment" "

The fourth consultation of the European Episcopal Conferences on responsibility for the creation organized by the CCEE (Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe) will be held in Italy, in Venice, from 23 to 26 May 2002. The theme chosen for this year’s meeting is “Labour and responsibility for the creation. Sustainable development demands a […]

Porto Alegre - New York

While the world’s political and economic leaders were in New York for the World Economic Forum, the no-global movements were meeting in Porto Alegre in Brazil to discuss the issues of globalization. At the centre of debate at both forums, therefore, were the same issues, though viewed from diametrically opposing perspectives. Mary Robinson , UN […]

Scandinavia

On 11 February, on the occasion of World Day for the sick, the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Northern Europe, which gathers together the representatives of the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic Catholic Church, under the presidency of Gerhard Schwenzer, bishop of Oslo, published a pastoral letter with the title “Preserving life: assistance […]

Russia" "

The Holy See has raised to the status of dioceses the four apostolic administrations that have hitherto existed in the territory of the Russian Federation, and at the same time created a single ecclesiastical Province. The announcement was made by the director of the Holy See’s press room, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, explaining in a press release […]

ex-Yugoslavia" "

Forty charges for war crimes, twenty-one for crimes against humanity, two for genocide. Crimes committed between 1991 and 1999 in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. The accusations levelled against Slobodan Milosovic by Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the UN tribunal in The Hague, on 12 February, should come as no surprise. Who indeed, with a […]

editoriale" "

“Solo Lei Santità poteva indire un simile raduno”. Così si è espresso il rabbino Israël Singer a Assisi il 24 gennaio, quando ha preso la parola insieme ad altri esponenti delle religioni del mondo. Tale osservazione è stata condivisa da tutti non soltanto come un riconoscimento indirizzato all’ospite, il Papa Giovanni Paolo II, ma anche […]

ex-jugoslavia" "

Quaranta imputazioni per crimini di guerra, ventuno per crimini contro l’umanità, due per genocidio. Reati commessi tra il 1991 e il 1999 in Croazia, Bosnia-Erzegovina e Kosovo. Non destano affatto scalpore le accuse contestate il 12 febbraio da Carla Del Ponte, procuratore capo del tribunale Onu all’Aja, a Slobodan Milosevic. Alzi la mano chi, con […]