EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Human Rights First

Dalai Lama’s official visit to the European Parliament has been scheduled for December 3 in the Strasburg headquarter. Hans-Gert Poettering, president of the 27 country assembly, gave the news last week, at the plenary session held in Brussels on May 7 and 8, during his encounter with Kesang Yangki Takla, minister of International Relations of […]

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EU AND RELIGIONS

The common objective

“Faith can be an important factor of integration because religion is an essential part of the identity of many people”. The preparatory working document for the meeting of 14 May in Brussels on dialogue between religions has been drawn up by the European Policy Centre (EPC). The meeting is one of the main events planned […]

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ECUMENISM

Burma, France, Italy, Cec

Burma: a letter from Rowan WilliamThe archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wrote a letter to Archbishop of Myamar and bishop Yangon Stephen Than Myint Oo of the Anglican church in Burma, to express his closeness and solidarity to the victims of the Nargis cyclone. “I am heartened” – William writes – “to know relief efforts […]

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FRANCE AND ITALY

Neighbourhood press

“A neighbourhood press, modest in relation to the scale of its mission” but “firmly rooted” in society, and “willing to listen to and enter into dialogue with the reality” of the world today, with a view to a “genuine proclamation of the Gospel”: that, in essence, is the character of the “local Christian press” in […]

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Netherlands, Germany, England

The Netherlands: the new edition of Catechism”The Catechism of the Catholic Church confronts other contemporary histories establishing positive dialogue on the meaning of life. At the same time, it reaffirms its valid claims”. With these words His Most Reverend Msgr. Everard de Jong, auxiliary bishop of Roermond, presented the new edition of the Catechism of […]

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FRONT PAGE

Europe of the human person

Reconciliation and integration: a joint commitment against relativism, secularization and for the promotion of Europe based on solidarity and sensitive to human dignity; supporting “sound” secularism and dialogue with Community institutions. His Eminence Cardinal Péter Erdö, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and president of Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences) outlined the Catholic Church’s priorities in the […]

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SPAGHETTI ANTIMAFIA: AUSER, IL 24 MAGGIO IN 800 PIAZZE ITALIANE

Sabato 24 maggio, sesta Giornata nazionale di solidarietà per il Filo d’argento Auser, i volontari dell’associazione saranno in 800 piazze italiane con 100mila confezioni di spaghetti “antimafia”, prodotti con il grano proveniente dai terreni confiscati alla criminalità organizzata, in collaborazione con i giovani della Cooperativa Placido Rizzotto Libera Terra dell’Alto Belice Corleonese. Scopo dell’iniziativa, spiegano […]

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE: FATHER FUNES (SPECOLA VATICANA), "ALIENS ARE BROTHERS"

” “"As an astronomer, I keep believing that God is the Maker of the universe and we are not the product of chance but the children of a good Father who has a plan of love for us": it was said in an interview on today’s "L’Osservatore Romano" by father José Gabriel Funes, director of […]

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ASTRONOMIA E FEDE: P. FUNES (SPECOLA VATICANA), "L’EXTRATERRESTRE E’ MIO FRATELLO

"Da astronomo, io continuo a credere che Dio sia il creatore dell’universo e che noi non siamo il prodotto della casualità ma i figli di un padre buono, il quale ha per noi un progetto d’amore": lo dice in una intervista su "L’Osservatore Romano" di oggi p. José Gabriel Funes, direttore della Specola Vaticana, interpellato […]

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FAMIGLIA E FISCO: PETIZIONE FORUM, GIOVEDI’ LE FIRME AL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA

La consegna al Capo dello Stato delle firme sulla petizione "Per un fisco a misura di famiglia" avverrà in forma solenne giovedì 15 maggio tra le 10,30 e le 11,30 "con grande partecipazione di popolo in piazza del Quirinale: saranno, simbolicamente e fisicamente, le famiglie a consegnare a Napolitano le firme raccolte". Lo comunica questa […]

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