GIOVANI

La gioia di esserci

Si terrà a Loreto, dal 29 agosto al 2 settembre, l’incontro dell’Agorà dei giovani italiani, con Benedetto XVI. Oltre ai ragazzi italiani, all’incontro con il Papa sono attesi anche 800 giovani di 50 Paesi dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo. La loro presenza sarà un invito al confronto e allo scambio di esperienze, oltre che un’occasione per […]

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Turchia: il caso del Patriarcato all’Ue

Il ministro degli esteri della Grecia, Dora Bakoyannis, ha deciso di informare l’Unione europea della situazione vissuta dal Patriarcato ecumenico di Costantinopoli ed ha presentato una informativa al Consiglio degli affari generali e relazioni esterne che si è riunito a Bruxelles lunedì 23 luglio, sotto la presidenza di Louis Amado, ministro degli Esteri del Portogallo. […]

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Slovacchia: missione in Azerbaigian

I Salesiani della Slovacchia, impegnati in una missione “sui iuris” in Azerbaigian, hanno aperto un sito web di informazione e promozione della Chiesa cattolica. L’iniziativa, coordinata insieme ad un gruppo di giovani, offre informazioni sulla Chiesa cattolica in Azerbaigian che nel 2000, dopo 70 anni di silenzio, ha ripreso vita. Come informa l’agenzia salesiana Ans, […]

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Cars and environment

“Even though private cars remain the most important means of transport, the citizens of the European Union are well aware of their impact on environment and the traffic situation”: a recent survey by Eurobarometer, published on July 26th, shows that most of Europeans are in favour of measures to promote the use of public transport […]

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Merits and defects of towns

“In Europe, jobs, enterprises and higher education institutions are mostly in towns, which play a fundamental role for EU competition in the global economy. However, town life also implies problems such as social marginalization and spatial segregation”. Those were the results of a survey carried out for the European Commission on the basis of the […]

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EUROBAROMETER

The quality of town life is improving

“Europeans like to live in town, and they think towns will improve as places to live and work in”. These are some of the results of a survey by Eurobarometer on the quality of life in European towns. Over three quarters of them said to be satisfied with living in their respective towns. On the […]

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A complex plot

Russia began its attempt to penetrate the Caucasus back in the time of Ivan the Terrible, who had arrived as far as the river Terek in 1556. In 1722 another tsar, Peter the Great, having invaded Daghestan for a brief period, and his successors in 1770, succeeded in occupying Chechnya, using as their pretext a […]

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CHECHNYA

The silence of Europe

“Officially the war in Chechnya ended six or even years ago. But for me this war being fought now has an even more terrible aspect. No one believes anyone any longer. There’s so much mistrust. It seems we have returned to the period of Stalin, when people didn’t trust each other or were forced to […]

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Funds for Radio Jozef

The archbishop of Warsaw, Msgr. Kazimierz Nycz, expressed the desire to establish a foundation which would assure the necessary economic support for the activities of Radio Jozef, a Catholic station founded in the capital of Poland in 1994, by the primate of Poland, Card. Jozef Glemp. “It is a station which does not hide its […]

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In defence of Father Rydzyk

In these days, Father Zdzislaw Klafka, superior of redeemer fathers for the Province of Warsaw, after consulting with the superior general of the congregation, Father Joseph W. Tobin, published a declaration about alleged statements by the director of Radio Maryja in Poland, Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, known also to be the head of a group of […]

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