Young people and local authorities: these are the two main recipients of the new communitarian information campaign launched by the presidency of the European Union. "Two new websites for information and debate on Europe" have been launched: www.leseuronautes.eu, aimed at young people, and www.placedeurope.eu for local elected officials and public authorities (town councils, provinces and […]

Una sentenza che rivela una "progressiva perdita di memoria rispetto a tradizioni e valori che hanno dato sostanza all’Europa". Così Alberto Campoleoni, esperto di politiche scolastiche, commenta in una nota per il SIR (old.agensir.it – sezione Attualità) la sentenza di un giudice spagnolo che ha deciso di rimuovere il crocifisso nelle aule scolastiche di una scuola […]

Le mafie hanno "paura delle parole vere, storicamente inoppugnabili, che vengono dalle parti sane dello Stato, e ancor più temono la Parola annunciata e vissuta". Con queste parole mons. Vincenzo Bertolone, vescovo di Cassano allo Ionio (Cs) presenta il convegno che si svolgerà oggi pomeriggio nella diocesi e che avrà al centro la nota pastorale […]

The inter-religious Declaration of Lyons, signed by Jews, Muslims and Christians, the latter represented by delegates of multiple confessions, ends like this: "Our assertion of a God who surpasses us but wants the best for us and makes us particularly attentive to justice. Our faith, sometimes and despite everything, forces us to take position towards […]

"In the light of our merciful Maker – highlight the representatives of the three monotheistic religions in the Declaration on the 83rd Social Week of France –, our human lives make sense, and we all find a taste for life again. The adventure of our societies and that of humanity also make sense under the […]

(Daniele Rocchi, SIR’s correspondent in Lyons) "We, as the representatives of the monotheistic religions, feel responsible for speaking together". This is the beginning of the inter-religious declaration, one of the fruits of the Social Week of France, which was focussed on the subject: "Religions, a hope or a threat for our societies?" and ended in […]

"No political system" can, "in the name of ideology, deny the rights of the human person and his freedom and dignity." So spoke the Pope at the end of yesterday’s Angelus greeting thousands of Ukrainian pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s square to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor – the "great famine" – that […]

Giovani ed enti locali: sono i due principali referenti indicati dalla presidenza dell’Unione europea per una nuova iniziativa di informazione comunitaria. Prendono infatti avvio due siti "partecipativi, d’informazione e di dibattiti sull’Europa", reperibili ai seguenti indirizzi: www.leseuronautes.eu, destinato ai giovani; www.placedeurope.eu, per i rappresentanti delle amministrazioni locali (comuni, province, regioni) e per i funzionari pubblici. […]

"The time for a new, fruitful dialogue between religions and societies is really ripe, especially for the European ones. Religions are aware of being a minority, conscious of their weakness as well as of the fact they are not the owners of the truth, but that they look for it, as do societies". With these […]

"If we put love for our neighbour into practice, according to the Gospel message, then we pave the way for the lordship of God, and his kingdom is realised among us. If instead each one of us thinks only of their own interests, the world cannot but fall into ruins." This is the warning Pope […]