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LITUANIA-UE " "

Ha preso avvio a inizio luglio il semestre di presidenza lituana del Consiglio dell’Unione europea. Per la prima volta un Paese baltico, entrato nella “casa comune” da meno di un decennio, assume le redini politiche dell’Ue. Per capire lo stato d’animo dei lituani, Sarah Numico, per Sir Europa ha intervistato Paulius Subačius, preside dell’Accademia cattolica […]

POLONIA" "

Sono veramente numerosi, 3.170 per la precisione, i polacchi impegnati nelle missioni all’estero, presenti in 97 Stati, ovvero in quasi tutto il mondo. Di recente il responsabile per le missioni dell’episcopato polacco, monsignor Jerzy Mazur, ha ricordato il senso delle missioni nell’ambito dell’Anno della fede, con alcuni polacchi presenti in Togo. Insieme sono stati ricevuti […]

CHIESE IN BREVE" "

Austria: 35mila volontari a favore degli ultimiCirca 35mila persone impegnate nel lungo periodo come volontari nella Caritas per realizzare oltre mille progetti a favore di persone bisognose e svantaggiate: questo il dato saliente diffuso da Caritas Austria nel rapporto sull’attività dell’organizzazione nel 2012. In un’intervista pubblicata l’8 luglio dall’agenzia di stampa cattolica austriaca Kathpress, Sonja […]

LITHUANIA-EU

The Lithuanian six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union took office at the beginning of July. For the first time a Baltic country that joined the "common home" less than a decade ago assumes the political leadership of the EU. In order to understand the mood of Lithuanians to this regard, Sarah Numico […]

EDITORIAL

On July 1st Croatia was welcomed as 28th Member Country of the European Union and at the same time, Serbia was granted a concrete perspective for adhesion. Also Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania have good reasons to hope that EU membership will be negotiated in the near future. Given implied expectations, will the European […]

CHIESE IN BREVE" "

Dalla Chiesa cattolica inglese appello per la Siria Un appello per la pace e per sostenere il lavoro delle organizzazioni caritative in Siria giunge dalla Conferenza episcopale di Inghilterra e Galles. In un comunicato – a firma del presidente dell’episcopato, l’arcivescovo di Westminster, Vincent Gerard Nichols, e del presidente della commissione episcopale per gli affari […]

''ONE OF US'' CAMPAIGN" "" "

“Our adversary is relativism, that dwells within each one of us, in every social group, in politics, in political parties, in each and every Country. For this reason it is necessary to start anew, promoting a cultural debate set to recover the primary role of the human person.” Jaime Mayor Oreja, Basque from Saint Sebastián, […]

POLAND

As many as 3,170 Polish citizens are engaged in missions abroad, present in 97 world countries, almost all over the world. The missions’ coordinator for the Polish bishops’ conference, Monsignor Jerzy Mazur, recently highlighted the meaning of the missions in the framework of the Year of Faith, in a meeting with some of the Poles […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

An appeal for Syria from the English Catholic Church The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales conveyed an appeal for peace and support to the work of charitable organizations in Syria. In a release signed by the president of the episcopate, the archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Gerard Nichols, and by the president of the Episcopal […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Austria: 35,000 volunteers for the last onesApproximately 35,000 people engaged in the long run as Caritas volunteers to carry out more than a thousand projects in favour of disadvantaged and needy people: this is the outstanding figure released by Caritas Austria in the report on its activities during the Year 2012. In an interview published […]