Rome: universities and humanism in Europe

The celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome (1957-2007) will include a meeting of teachers of the Universities of Europe, promoted by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) in collaboration with European institutions and the Italian government. It will be held in Rome from 21 to 24 June 2007, […]

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EEA3: meeting on ecumenism and media

The annual meeting of press officers and spokespersons of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe will be held at Sibiu (in Romania) from 9 to 10 September. This year’s meeting will take place on the day following the end of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3), due to be held in Sibiu from 4 to 9 […]

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European Commission: a green paper on asylum

“Equality of treatment and solidarity”: these are the “keywords” in terms of asylum on which the Commission intends to focus. On 6 June it released three documents: a green paper “aimed at stimulating a debate on the future of the European common regime”; a draft directive “aimed at offering the beneficiaries of international protection the […]

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Belgium: “shipwrecked in a sea of indifference”

“In spite of the fact that we are inundated every day by grim news stories, one more tragic than the other, there are images to which we cannot become accustomed, such as that of the 27 African clandestine immigrants clinging to a fishing net in the midst of a sea of indifference”. So begins the […]

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France: the tragedy of the boat-people

“It’s a tragedy that is added to the countless other tragedies of boat-people who flee from the deprivation of their own country hoping to find Eldorado in the West”, commented Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon on the disaster at sea that caused the death of 18 clandestine immigrants, including two adolescents; their bodies were fished […]

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Italy: Mediterranean, cemetery without names

“The Mediterranean is a cemetery without crosses and without names. Thousands of people have died in the bid to reach Europe. It is right to remember them; it is our duty to do so”, said Father Gianromano Gnesotto of the Migrantes Foundation (Italian Bishops’ Conference). Speaking to SIR about the recent cases of immigrants lost […]

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Concrete measures

BENEDICT XVI has made an appeal to the G8 which opened at Heiligendamm, in Germany, on 6 June. During his Wednesday General Audience the Pope asked the leaders of the G8 “to fulfil their pledges to substantially increase their aid to development in support of the populations most in need, especially those of the African […]

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The return of the common good

During the meeting of the social commission of COMECE, held in Berlin on 22 May, the bishops and experts of the thirteen participating bishops’ conferences were able to directly exchange views on the priorities of the European episcopates in relation to the social doctrine of the Church. That’s a good thing; it’s a value in […]

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FAME NEL MONDO: "PROGRESSI INCORAGGIANTI NELLA LOTTA ALLA MALNUTRIZIONE GRAVE" (2)

La tecnologia per la produzione di alimenti terapeutici di pronto utilizzo, si spiega nella dichiarazione congiunta di Oms, Pam, Commissione Onu sulla nutrizione e l’Unicef, "è relativamente semplice e potrebbe essere impiegata in tutti i paesi con alti livelli di malnutrizione acuta grave". Se attuata su larga scala, combinandola con il trattamento ospedaliero per i […]

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FAME NEL MONDO: "PROGRESSI INCORAGGIANTI NELLA LOTTA ALLA MALNUTRIZIONE GRAVE"

"Progressi incoraggianti si registrano nella lotta alla malnutrizione grave, che colpisce in tutto il mondo circa 20 milioni di bambini sotto i 5 anni, grazie a nuovi metodi innovativi che combinano le cure somministrate presso le comunità locali in cui vivono i bambini gravemente malnutriti e il tradizionale trattamento ospedaliero". Con una dichiarazione congiunta di […]

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