SYDNEY 2008

Più vicini alla Chiesa

L’Australia è il Paese che ospita, probabilmente, la più vasta comunità greca residente all’estero. Alla fine degli anni ’80 le stime parlavano di circa 600 mila immigrati greci. Dunque una nazione in cui i giovani greci, che parteciperanno alla prossima Giornata mondiale della Gioventù di Sydney, dal 15 al 20 luglio, dovrebbero sentirsi a casa. […]

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News in brief from Europe

Politics and Religion in the European UnionIn the context of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, under the aegis of the EU, the Centre for European Policy Studies and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung are organizing a seminar on the topic “Religion and Politics in the European Union”. New challenges, new responsibilities. The initiative derives from […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

The great absentee

While the markets are sending out worrying messages to Europe, the EU institutions are trying to plan their countermeasures to respond to the announced recession. The EU Commission is reviewing the figures about the Gross Domestic Product and employment, the Central Bank is reckoning with the interest rates and inflation, the member states, here and […]

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UNIVERSITY

Why the crisis?

Saturday March 1st the Paul VI Vatican assembly hall will host the VI European University Day promoted by Ccee (the Council of Europe’s Bishops Conferences). This year’s topic is “Europe and the Americas together to build the civilization of love”. The event will be satellite broadcasted to ten European cities (Toledo, Bucarest, Minsk…) and of […]

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UKRAINE

Letters from Kharkov

A few days ago, the Kijevo-Mohylana Academy in Kyiv hosted the presentation of the book “Lettere da Kharkov. La carestia in Ucraina e nel Caucaso del Nord nei rapporti dei diplomatici italiani, 1932-1933” by the Italian historian Andrea Graziosi, containing the reports of the Italian diplomats about the famine that in 1932-1933 killed nearly 10 […]

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SYDNEY 2008

Closer to the Church

Australia is the country that hosts, probably, the largest Greek community resident abroad. At the end of the 1980s estimates spoke of some 600,000 Greek immigrants. So it’s a nation in which the Greek youngsters due to participate in the next World Youth Day (WYD), to be held in Sydney from 15 to 20 July, […]

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Germany, Spain, Austria, Cyprus

Germany: the dioceses in Holy LandThe German dioceses will go on a pilgrimage in the Holy Land from March 2008 to November 2009. On the occasion of the plenary meeting held in early Lent 2007, the German bishops had made an appeal to the devotees, encouraging them to go to the Holy Land. In response […]

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Germany, Holland, Poland

Germany: erasing the debt of poor CountriesA campaign to erase the debt of poor Countries was undertaken on February 26 by the Federal association for development policy “erlassjahr.de”. The initiative is aimed at obtaining a statement by MPs from different Countries on the so-called illegitimate debts and the co-responsibility of creditors. The association, composed of […]

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FRONT PAGE

Europe and the Americas together

“Revitalizing hope in men and women in Europe and in the Americas” is the objective of the VI European University Day, promoted by the Ccee, that will take place in Rome on March 1st to the presence of Pope Benedict XVI. The International Conference, which precedes the audience with the Pope, is an occasion for […]

di Lorenzo Leuzzi Vicarage of Rome - Ccee

FAMILY DAY 2: "PIENA ADESIONE" DI FERRARA ALLE RICHIESTE DEL FORUM SU FISCO E LIBERTA’ EDUCATIVA

"Piena adesione" è stata manifestata oggi da Giuliano Ferrara, che ha ricevuto la presidenza del Forum delle associazioni familiari, impegnata nel giro dei candidati premier per presentare il "Manifesto per le elezioni". "La consonanza tra Forum e Lista Ferrara – si legge in una nota – è totale sui temi del diritto alla vita e […]

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