QUEL ''MONDO DI MEZZO''

Sotto la cupola di Roma mafiosa

"È la teoria del mondo di mezzo… Ci stanno i vivi sopra e i morti sotto, e noi stiamo nel mezzo… un mondo in mezzo in cui tutti si incontrano". Ha il sapore del racconto antropologico e dello spaccato sociologico questa descrizione di Roma dalla viva voce di Massimo Carminati, l’ex sovversivo dell’estrema destra ed […]

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GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE

Rischio povertà per le famiglie con un disabile” “

Nel nostro Paese sono circa 3,2 milioni le persone con disabilità. Oltre il 21% delle famiglie italiane al cui interno vive una di queste persone è a rischio povertà, contro il 18% delle famiglie senza componenti disabili. A renderlo noto sono gli ultimi dati in materia elaborati dall’Istat, rilevati nella "Indagine sulle condizioni di vita" […]

di Giovanna Pasqualin Traversa

MISSION DI CIVILTÀ

Tutte le religioni contro la schiavitù

Tutte le religioni unite per sradicare la schiavitù moderna entro il 2020. Una sfida storica, ambiziosa, che ha visto Papa Francesco accogliere in Vaticano, nella Casina Pio IV, sede della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze, leader anglicani, ortodossi, buddisti, indù, ebrei e musulmani per firmare una dichiarazione congiunta contro un fenomeno dalle dimensioni spaventose: quasi 36 […]

di Patrizia Caiffa

CHURCHES IN BRIEF" "

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Spain

Slovakia: Ff Radio, “outgoing” Church towards the young The only Catholic radio station in Slovakia, Radio Lumen, is launching a new radio service on the Internet for young people titled “Ff Radio”, which is short for “Radio faith and fire”. “The service is dedicated to young people who seek authentic Christian values and want to […]

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SPAIN

You are nobody without a home

“For dignified and adequate housing. No more homeless”: it was the theme of the Day of Homeless People, celebrated on 30 November in Spain. The purpose of the Day promoted by Caritas, Faciam (Federation of Associations of centers for integration and help to the marginalized), fePsh (Federation of organizations supporting the homeless), Xapsll (Network of […]

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THE NETHERLANDS" "

Consecrated life: a year to understand

Convents, monasteries, religious institutes and monastic orders, along with dioceses across Europe, have made known the initiatives for the Year of Consecrated Life, which has just commenced. In the Netherlands, for example, the Trappist Abbot of Our Lady of Koningshoeven, Bernard Peeters, called on all religious and monastic communities in the Netherlands to participate in […]

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CHURCHES IN BRIEF" "

Switzerland, Portugal

Switzerland/1: Pope Francis meets Swiss bishops “You have the great and beautiful responsibility to keep the faith alive in your own land”, said Pope Francis in a speech to the members of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference and the abbots of Swiss monasteries, received on 1 December in audience on the occasion of the ad Limina […]

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FRANCIS AND BARTHOLOMEW

For a path of unity ” “

The Pope and the Patriarch, holding hands, looking out from the balcony of the second floor of the patriarchal building at the Phanar in Istanbul. Together again, back into each other’s arms. Leaders of two Churches that are not yet in full communion with each other, but that are united in a common concern over […]

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EDITORIAL/2

First World War: ” “Christians’ checkmate ” “

The year 2014 commemorates the centenary of the First World War, celebrated on various occasions throughout Europe. On the other hand even in the Catholic world does devote enough tribute to the encyclical of Pope Benedict XV, “Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum”, of 1 November 1914. Yet this text accurately underlined the stakes for Christians in a […]

di Dominique Durand - Sir Europe (France)

EDITORIAL/1

In Turkey “koinonia” ” “carries the scent of the origins ” “

Turkey, “a natural bridge between two continents and diverse cultural expressions” said Pope Francis during his recent trip to the country, today a Country of arrival for refugees and migrants. To date, “Turkey has generously welcomed a great number of refugees” from conflict areas, the Pope said. The immediate reaction, that might be plebeian but […]

di Cristiana Dobner