SRI LANKA IN PRESA DIRETTA

Dopo lo tsunami nella terra del tè

Conosco lo Sri Lanka, come si può conoscere un Paese, una Chiesa, un popolo visitato tre volte negli ultimi anni, a seguito di un prete che da trenta ci mette piede – e mani e cuore. Trent’anni di andate e ritorni, di terra d’Irpinia e villaggi srilankesi, di mescolanza di volti montanari e pescatori; comunanza […]

di Angelo Sceppacerca

IL RITORNO DI ''CHARLIE HEBDO''

Liberi sempre irresponsabili mai

"Non condivido le tue idee ma mi batterò fino alla morte affinché tu possa esprimerle": è lo stesso Voltaire che mi ha idealmente accompagnato questa mattina, all’edicola vicino a Place Kléber, a Strasburgo, per acquistare – dopo una lunga fila di persone – una copia del nuovo numero di "Charlie Hebdo". In mezzo alla piazza […]

di dall'inviato Sir Europa a Strasburgo, Gianni Borsa

EMERGENZA UMANITARIA" "

Gaza, a questi ritmi ci vorranno decenni per la ricostruzione” “

Cinquantuno giorni di ostilità, segnati da 5.085 raid aerei israeliani, 8.210 tra bombe e missili lanciati, 15.736 proiettili sparati dalle navi, 36.718 quelli sparati nelle operazioni di terra. 2.131 i palestinesi uccisi, di cui 1.473 civili, inclusi 501 bambini e 257 donne. I feriti ammontano a 11.231, di cui 3.436 bambini, 3.540 donne e 418 […]

di dall'inviato Sir a Gaza, Daniele Rocchi

THE FUTURE OF FRANCE

“Everyone must do their share”

“France has been attacked and precisely because it has been attacked it has shown that it won’t bend down. The consciousness movement we have seen in the past days is a sign that fear will not have the last word.” Monsignor Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, General Secretary, spokesperson of the French Bishops, is in his office […]

di Redazione

CHURCHES IN BRIEF" "

Church in Europe, Spain

Church in Europe: doctrine of the faith and new challengesEsztergom, Hungary, was chosen as the venue of the meeting between the superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the presidents of the doctrinal commissions of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe, January 13-15. “In an Instruction dated 23 February 1967, the Congregation […]

di Redazione

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia, Iceland

Czech Republic: the reconstruction of VelehradOver 350 million crowns (13 million euros) have been invested in the rebuilding of Velehrad, Czech Republic, in the past five years. The project, titled “Velehrad – Center for cultural dialogue between Western Europe and Eastern Europe” has transformed the face of one of the most renowned and visited pilgrimage […]

di Redazione

LATVIA

Riga at the helm of EU28

“During the period in which Latvia will hold the presidency “of the EU Council of Ministers,” Christians in our country will be able to recognize not only the political, but also the spiritual bonds that unite us to Europe “: Msgr. Zbignevs Stankevics, Metropolitan Archbishop of Riga, thus commented for Sir Europe the leadership of […]

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POLAND

The Jewish Museum in the Jewish ghetto

There’s a direct link between Poland and the history of Jewish people. It is the theme of the 18th Day of Judaism that will be celebrated January 15th, that will be inaugurated with  a common prayer of Christians and Jews in front of the Memorial of the victims of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The […]

di Redazione

EDITORIAL/2

Giving Europe new hope

Among the German words adopted into other European languages is “Angst”. “German Angst” points to that nation’s general tendency to brood, as well as its characteristic fear of the future. This fear seems to have spread throughout the continent – fear of unemployment and impoverishment, fear of deflation and loss of savings, fear of foreign […]

di Martin Maier - Europeinfos (Comece)

EDITORIAL/1

Multicultural societies: fear is poison

France was attacked. France is wounded as the whole of Europe, as the entire world. The great popular participation, along with that of many Heads of State and Government, at the demonstration in Paris on 11 January is a confirmation of this. It is our common civilization, our core values that the terrorists wanted to […]

di Jean-Dominique Durand - France