EU PARLIAMENT

An interesting crossroads

Community action in economy and the environment; climate changes; the situation in Tibet; the future of Euro-Mediterranean partnership. Last week, the seat of the Euro-parliament in Brussels became an interesting crossroads of debates and meetings, starting from the extraordinary session of the Hemicycle of March 26 dedicated to the results of the latest EU summit, […]

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INFORMATION

A distant Europe

73% of the citizens of the EU-27 consider themselves badly informed about the activities of the European Parliament: the Eurobarometer finding formed the backdrop to a recent conference in Rome, promoted jointly by the European Journalists’ Association (EJA) and the European Parliament on “Europe and citizens: what information?”, in which European media experts, journalists and […]

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MIGRATION

Families under stress

“Emigrating Families. Hopes and Challenges for the Church” has been the topic of the recent annual meeting of European pastoral migration experts that was held in Lyon on March 2-5. Fourteen cities were represented at the event: Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Lucerne, Luxemburg, Lyon, Milan, Paris, Turin and Vienna. “The family issue – […]

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ISLAM

Prejudice and ignorance

Despite the appeals by Dutch authorities, concerned about the risk of an international crisis similar to the one sparked off by the Danish caricatures of Mohammed, Geert Wilders, a Dutch MP of the extreme right-wing, on March 27 put on the internet the controversial documentary ‘Fitna’ (which in Arabic means “division and discord within Islam”) […]

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SYDNEY 2008

The courage to change

Continues our survey on the presence on European youth at the forthcoming World Youth Day held in Sydney on July 15-20 2008. Now it’s the turn of Ivana Petrak, from the national office of youth pastoral care office of Croatia’s Bishops Conference who reported the proceedings to SIR Europe. (Previous reports in SIR Europe 21-22-23/2008).How […]

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BULGARIA

A growing Country

Having been appointed Apostolic Nuncio in Ireland, in the next few days Msgr. Giuseppe Leanza will be leaving Bulgaria’s apostolic see where he was appointed nuncio in 2003. He was born in Cesarò (Messina-Italy), was nominated priest in 1966 and bishop in 1990. In 1999 Msgr. Leanza was transferred to the Balkan region , holding […]

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FRONT PAGE

The French passion

At a time when the question of the role of religions in society is returning to the foreground in the electoral debates being conducted in various democratic countries (Spain, Italy, Belgium, USA), at times also with the intervention of episcopates, France, the secular country par excellence , seems to be taking an unexpected new direction […]

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GIOVANNI PAOLO II: RICCARDI, "LA FORZA DI LOTTARE A MANI NUDE"

“La grande novità è il governo carismatico di Giovanni Paolo II ” ha detto Andrea Riccardi ricordando il Papa nell’incontro di questa sera in Santa Maria in Trastevere a tre anni dalla morte di papa Wojtyla.”Ha lottato profondamente contro la fine della fede, che era stata decretata dagli storici. A questo proposito ricordiamo una impopolarità […]

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GIOVANNI PAOLO II: CARD. RUINI, IL SUO "SEGRETO" ERA "LA PREGHIERA"

“Quest’uomo di cultura e di pensiero aveva, al tempo stesso, la semplicità della fede di un fanciullo e la saldezza rocciosa della fede del suo popolo”. Così il cardinale vicario per la diocesi di Roma Camillo Ruini ricorda Giovanni Paolo II, intervenendo all’incontro di questa sera nella basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, intitolato “Ricordando […]

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SENZA DIMORA: AVVOCATO DI STRADA, 932 PRATICHE SEGUITE GRATUITAMENTE NEL 2007

932 pratiche seguite gratuitamente nel 2007, in tutt’Italia, dagli "Avvocati di strada", corrispondenti ad altrettanti senzatetto "che, altrimenti, non vedrebbero riconosciuti i loro diritti". È un dato che si ricava dal "Rapporto sull’assistenza legale in Italia a favore delle persone senza dimora", presentato oggi a Bologna dall’associazione "Avvocato di strada", nata per "tutelare le persone […]

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