“Un pastore esemplare proprio perché è stato un essere umano del tutto credibile, al quale è soltanto capitato di innamorarsi di Cristo”. Non sarebbe male se “potessimo somigliargli almeno un po’”. Così Nicholas King, gesuita e docente all’Università di Oxford, nel numero di luglio-agosto del periodico inglese “The pastoral review”, in occasione dell’Anno Paolino (28 […]

Fervono in tutte le diocesi italiane i preparativi per la Giornata mondiale della gioventù 2008… Anche in Emilia Romagna stanno per partire, “da quasi tutte le diocesi dell’Emilia Romagna”, i circa 350 giovani che parteciperanno alla prossima Giornata mondiale della gioventù, a Sydney.Scambio e condivisione. “La diocesi più numerosa della regione, con 80 partecipanti, è […]

"To do this – went on mgr. Migliore in his speech in New York at the meeting of the High level standard of Ecosoc –, the agricultural reforms in the developing countries must be sped up to provide small farmers with ways to increase their crops in a sustainable manner, as well as access to […]

Approximately 5,000 boys and girls from all over Europe are expected to go to Lourdes from 15 to 20 July for the celebration of the World Youth Day (www.lourdes2008.com). Lourdes, say the organisers, is "a meaningful place to experience a young, lively and missionary Church made in resemblance of the Virgin". Then, the WYD will […]

"While this year is the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, the deep, worldwide food crisis is threatening everyone’s primary right to be free from hunger". That’s why "immediate action needs to be taken to help those in danger, starving or malnourished": this was said by mgr. Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the […]

"Hopefully, the Holy Spirit will open the hearts and the minds of these young people leaving for Sydney". It was said to SIR by Card. Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Papal Council for the Lay, in seeing the hundreds of young people leaving today from Fiumicino airport for Sydney, where they will attend the WYD […]

Despite this, "human rights activities are still persecuted". Hence Amnesty’s requests: "release all conscientious prisoners, including Ye Guozhu, Hu Jia, Yang Chunlin and any other person that is in prison just for having peacefully expressed their opinions; prevent the police from arbitrarily arresting people who submit petitions, human rights activists and any other person as […]

Exactly one month before the start of the Olympic Games in Peking, Amnesty International published today the text of an open letter sent by the secretary general, Irene Khan, to the President of People’s Republic of China, Hu Jintao, asking him to take "five steps towards the development of human rights, to which the Promoting […]

Young Poles who cannot go to Australia to meet the Pope in Sydney may gather in Warsaw instead, as it will be linked by satellite to the Australian capital. It was announced by mgr. Kazimierz Nycz, archbishop of Warsaw, inviting young people to meet in the capital of Poland. "I hope this meeting will make […]

The plenary session of the European Parliament (7-11 July) opens with a debate on "the decision of the Italian government to create a databank of the Romanies’ fingerprints". The MPs of the 27 EU member states are urged by several questions from the Socialist, Liberal Democrat, Environmentalist and United Left groups. Tomorrow, the Strasbourg floor […]