IMMIGRATION

Between hopes and fears

“Immigration contributes to the economic results of Europe. Yet its potential will only be realized if we succeed in integrating immigrants and if we acknowledge people’s fears about clandestine immigration”, declared José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, summing up the complexity of the issue of immigration, to which the EU is trying to […]

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ITALY-ROMANIA

Employment “dialogue”

Not only immigration: in fact, it would be better to talk of “exchange” between Italy and Romania. The reasons bear the names of globalization, economic convenience, poverty, border dismantling, “cultural kinship”. Thus, 25 thousand Italian companies relocated in Romania in response to the increase of Romanian immigrants in Italy (currently counting 550 thousand residents, but […]

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SPAIN

The WYD via satellite

The situation is similar to that of other European Countries, broadly illustrated by SIR Europe in the past months: many young people are getting ready for the World Youth Day with the Pope to be held in Australia next July 15-20. However, high travel costs will prevent many others from leaving their Countries. A number […]

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COMECE - CEC

For European Islam

Faced with migration flow increase, Europeans must learn to coexist with peoples from different cultural and religious backgrounds. To the light of this awareness and in order to step up “social cohesion and civil peace in Europe”, the European Union proclaimed 2008 the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue”. An important aspect of the growing diversity […]

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COMECE

Communicating hope

After 15 years’ commitment as Secretary General of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) Msgr. Noël Treanor is resigning his post. In fact, on June 29 he will be ordained bishop of the diocese of Down and Connor, in Ireland. On the eve of his departure from Brussels, SIR Europe asked […]

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POLAND

In brief

KEP: countering the enemies of the faith”The new Europe is ill, but it’s our Europe, and we must all have its good health at heart”, said Archbishop Jozef Michalik, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP) on 18 June, during his homily in the eucharistic celebration at the end of the KEP’s 344th plenary session. […]

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Germany, England, Serbia-Croatia

Germany: not a Country without God Germany “is not a Country of people who don’t believe in God”, said Msgr. Robert Zollitsch, President of Germany’s Bishops Conference and archbishop of Friburg. In an article published June 16 on Offenburg’s daily “Offenburger Tageblatt”, Msgr. Zollitsch claimed: “the religious market is spreading at a pace never seen […]

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FIRST PAGE

Time past and time to come

History will show that the European project developed with spectacular rapidity, at least in its first decades. Just two decades ago in the immediate aftermath of the Single European Act (1987) political, economic and monetary integration assumed a new momentum. Thus the European project took on a new quality, soon to be advanced by the […]

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CONGRESSO RADIO CATTOLICHE: LE ESPERIENZE NEI CINQUE CONTINENTI (2)

Numerose le “radio cattoliche e comunitarie” anche in America latina, impegnate, secondo p. Carlos Quinterno (segretario dipartimento comunicazione del Celam), “a raggiungere milioni di fedeli per trasmettere un messaggio di pace e di speranza”, facendo “sintesi tra cultura e religione”. Un “apostolato che sta tentando di crescere” è pure quello delle radio americane, ha rilevato […]

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CONGRESSO RADIO CATTOLICHE: LE ESPERIENZE NEI CINQUE CONTINENTI

Identità e missione delle radio cattoliche nei cinque continenti. Si è sviluppata attorno a questo tema, oggi pomeriggio, la prima tavola rotonda al congresso per le radio cattoliche, in corso a Roma per iniziativa del Pontificio consiglio delle comunicazioni sociali. Guardando al caso europeo, p. Federico Lombardi, direttore generale della Sala stampa vaticana, della Radio […]

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