CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Ukraine/Poland, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia

Ukraine/Poland: spiritual tour among the shrines of the Carpathians An international cycle-pilgrimage titled “Spiritual shrines: towards God and towards the world” is ongoing in Ukraine and Poland until the end of June 2015. According to the manager of the project, Bohdan Sydorak, the bicycle tour, due to begin in Stryi on May 8, will be […]

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AHEAD OF THE SYNOD

The blow comes from Switzerland

The gap separating Swiss Catholics and the Synod on the Family grows wider. In the Report drawn up by the Swiss Church, presenting to the Synod fathers the answers to the questionnaire, there is even mention of a “dialogue of the deaf”, highlighting the extent to which doctrinal tenets are separated and distant from real […]

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MOLDOVA

The Country reached the boiling point” “

Moldova is in a chaos. On Sunday May 3 40 thousand people, according to organizers (10 thousand according to the authorities) took the streets in Chiºinãu crying out: “we are the people”. It has already been described as the “Moldavian Maidan”. Demonstrators are asking the government to clarify the circumstances of the disappearance of over […]

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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

Child-friendly justice ” “

74 thousand minors are “victims of crimes” and 495thousand have been “involved in their parents’ divorce”, and therefore involved in civil or criminal prosecutions. These figures date back to 2010 (the only ones available so far in this area) and they refer to 11 EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, UK, […]

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POLAND TO THE POLLS" "

Presidential elections, two-candidate challenge ” “

In Poland, among 11 candidates for the presidential election by universal suffrage of Sunday, May 10, the most acclaimed, according to various surveys, are the current president Bronislaw Komorowski, 62, a member of the government’s centrist party Civic Platform (PO), and Andrzej Duda, 42-year old, of the conservative party Law and Justice (PiS). Komorowski ensures […]

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EDITORIAL/2

EU: acknowledging ” “the half-full glass

“The progress made by Europe after World War II’s devastation, occupation and marginalization, is truly incredible. Indeed, Europe broke the sterile cycle of wars and peace treaties – that were ephemeral points of equilibrium – replacing them with an unprecedented international order. In this way, in this area of military cataclysms, Europe managed to remove […]

di Stefan Lunte - France

EDITORIAL/1

London and Athens emblems ” “of an incomplete Europe

Some anniversaries are worth celebrating. The Old Continent will celebrate two anniversaries in the coming days. May 8 marks the 70th anniversary since the end of World War II, the “great darkness” in the history of humanity, symbolically represented by the crematory ovens of Auschwitz, by battlefields and by military cemeteries disseminated across Europe and […]

di Gianni Borsa

CHIESE IN BREVE

Ucraina/Polonia, Spagna, Portogallo, Slovacchia

Ucraina/Polonia: tour spirituale fra i santuari dei Carpazi Un ciclo-pellegrinaggio internazionale intitolato “Santuari spirituali: verso Dio e verso il mondo” è in programma fino a giugno 2015 in Ucraina e Polonia. Secondo il manager del progetto, Bohdan Sydorak, il tour in bicicletta, che prende avvio l’8 maggio a Stryi, sarà dedicato alla commemorazione del 150° […]

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VERSO IL SINODO

La scossa viene dalla Svizzera

Si allarga il fossato tra i fedeli cattolici svizzeri e il Sinodo sulla famiglia. Nel Rapporto che la Chiesa elvetica ha stilato presentando ai padri sinodali le risposte al questionario, si parla addirittura di un “dialogo tra sordi”, a sottolineare quanto i presupposti dottrinali e le realtà vissute siano distanti e inavvicinabili. Il percorso sinodale […]

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MOLDOVA

Il Paese è in ebollizione

Moldova nel caos. Domenica 3 maggio 40mila persone secondo gli organizzatori (10mila nelle stime ufficiali delle forze dell’ordine) sono scese in piazza a Chiºinãu al grido “il popolo siamo noi”. Alcuni lo hanno già definito il “Maidan moldavo”: i manifestanti chiedono al governo di chiarire le circostanze della scomparsa di oltre un miliardo di euro […]

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