Germany: the young are more religious than the adults

Approximately 70% of Germans are religious or very religious. These were the results of a research on religion by the Bertelsmann Foundation made public on December 17. As reported by Kna, a German Catholic news agency, the survey shows there is no tendency to drift away from religion. The situation is more complex than it […]

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Austria: Christians on the decrease

The number of Christians decreases while more people are searching for the meaning to life. This was the ambivalent result of a survey on the sociological evolution of Christianity in Austria. The report, presented in Wien in the past few days by Josef Höchtl, President of the Austrian Association for Understanding Between Peoples, highlights the […]

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Luxembourg: for an accessible dwelling

“A guaranteed fund for rents and dwelling situation monitoring”, these are the objectives of the diocesan Commission Diaconie and of the Caritas (Cddc) in Luxembourg which for the past months have been engaged in discussing the lodging situation in the Country. In fact the Sozialwort (report on the social situation), focused on the dwelling situation, […]

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Austria: “the Church isn’t afraid of the truth”

The inseparable link between science and truth was underlined by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, President of Austria’s Bishops Conference, on past 15 December in Wien. In his address delivered during the ceremony for the “Cardinal Innitzer” award , assigned to personalities operating in the scientific field, , Schönborn affirmed that “by assigning prizes for Scientific research […]

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Germany: “no” to weapon trading

The German Churches criticized the policy on weapon exportation by the Federal Government: “the tendency to increase weapon exportation is incessant”, said in Berlin, on December 17 Karl Jüsten, Catholic President of the Common Conference Church and Development (Gkke). Jüsten highlighted the increased number of authorizations to weapon exports; from 1.5 billion to 7.7 billion […]

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The real stars

As we approach the end of 2007, and wish to draw up a balance sheet of these past twelve months, we cannot but be happy about the new progress made in the process of European integration – the adoption of the new Reform Treaty, the extension of the Schengen zone – and about the sound […]

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SOLIDARIETÀ: CARITAS ROMA, SALVADANAI NEI BAR PER LE FAMIGLIE PIÙ POVERE

"Per te è solo il resto. Per una famiglia in difficoltà è tutto": è lo slogan che si potrà leggere in oltre 500 bar di Roma per la campagna di solidarietà a favore delle famiglie disagiate promossa dalla Caritas diocesana di Roma e da Assobar. Nei bar della capitale si potrà infatti contribuire alla raccolta […]

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SIR EUROPA: POVERTY, CAMPAIGN FOR "A DIGNIFIED LIFE" THROUGH AN "ADEQUATE MINIMUM INCOME"

A European campaign for "everyone to have access to a dignified life" through an "adequate minimum income", a system that is currently applied in 24 of the 27 member states (except Italy, Hungary and Greece): it was launched yesterday in Brussels by Eapn, the European network of associations engaged in the fight against poverty and […]

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SIR EUROPA: POVERTY, CAMPAIGN FOR "A DIGNIFIED LIFE" THROUGH AN "ADEQUATE MINIMUM INCOME" (2)

The poster of the campaign shows gigantic shelves overflowing with goods and a Lilliputian figure of a woman with a shopping trolley. The slogan is: "Not everyone has access to a dignified life". Materials in French and English can be downloaded from the Eapn website (www.eapn.org): posters, leaflets, postcards, information sheets and letters to be […]

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INDIA: ASSALITI TRE SALESIANI IMPEGNATI IN ATTIVITÀ DI PROMOZIONE POLITICO-SOCIALE

Nella serata di ieri don Monty Rodrigues, Damien Sladen e Ramesh Durairaj, mentre erano impegnati insieme ad un gruppo di studenti dell’istituto salesiano di Kawant in un’attività di promozione politico-sociale nel villaggio di Baidiya in India, sono stati assaliti. Lo rende noto oggi l’agenzia Salesiana Ans secondo la quale mentre era in corso l’attività, alcune […]

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