PORTOGALLO

Intollerabile ingiustizia

Si è svolta il 25 e 26 maggio, presso il collegio di S. Brito a Lisbona la Conferenza nazionale 2007 della Commissione nazionale per la Giustizia e la Pace (Cnjp), sul tema: “Per uno sviluppo globale e solidale – Un compromesso di cittadinanza”, da cui è stato lanciato l’allarme sulla situazione sociale portoghese. A partire […]

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Carceri: dalla morte sociale ad una vita nuova

“La cappellania è uno dei grandi spazi della vita ecclesiale. Nella società, la prigione è considerata come una messa ai margini – osserva mons. Jean-Pierre Grallet, neoarcivescovo di Strasburgo e vescovo accompagnatore della Cappellania cattolica delle carceri – mentre con la presenza delle cappellanie lo sguardo si rovescia e il carcere è un luogo i […]

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Clermont: un anno di formazione rurale

2007-2008: un anno di formazione rurale per “abitare meglio la campagna”: è l’iniziativa lanciata dalla Pastorale rurale della Provincia d’Auvergne per portare, si legge in una nota della diocesi di Clermont, “uno sguardo cristiano sui territori rurali”. L’Anno di formazione rurale (Afr), spiegano i promotori, “non ha la pretesa di ritenersi la sola presenza della […]

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EU

Growing opportunities

“Cohesion policy in the EU has shown its capacity to adjust to change through the financing of investments in infrastructures, human resources and the modernization and diversification of regional economies”, says DANUTA HÜBNER , European Commissioner for Regional Policy, in presenting the fourth Report on economic and social cohesion. The report evaluates the results achieved […]

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REVIEW OF IDEAS

Fear of a European Islam?

If some conditions are met, Europe could be “a chance for Islam”, and Islam “a chance for Europeans”: that’s the conclusion reached by MAURICE BORRMANS , former professor of Arabic, Moslem law and the history of relations between Arabs and Christians at the Pontifical Institute of Arab-Islamic Studies in Rome, in a reflection published in […]

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PORTUGAL

Intolerable injustice

The 2007 National Conference the Portuguese Commission for Justice and Peace was held at the College of St. Brito in Lisbon on 25-26 May. Theme of the conference: “For global development and solidarity – a compromise of citizenship”. The conference voiced its concerns about the alarming social situation in Portugal. Based on Eurostat data, the […]

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Prisons: from social death to a new life

“The prison chaplaincy is one of the great arenas for the life of the Church. In society, prison is synonymous with marginalization”, observes the Right Rev. Jean-Pierre Grallet, the new Archbishop of Strasbourg and bishop supervisor of the Catholic chaplaincy of prisons. “On the contrary, with the presence of chaplaincies, the view is reversed and […]

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Clermont: a year of rural formation

2007-2008: a year of rural formation to “live better in the countryside”: that’s the project launched by the Church’s rural pastoral service in the Province of Auvergne. Its aim, explains a statement of the diocese of Clermont, is to devote “a Christian view to rural territories”. The year of rural formation, say its promoters, “does […]

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FRANCE

Paris: opens the bishops’ “House”

The new “House” of the French Bishops’ Conference was shown on 29 May. It is located in the heart of Paris. “Giving the Church a new visibility”; “strengthening work in common, synergy and collaboration among the different services (over 150 people)”; and “fostering reception and meetings between the bishops and the people in charge coming […]

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Ukraine: improving Church-State relations

A round table promoted by the Committee for National and Religious Affairs was held n Kiev at the end of May on the theme: “The priorities of state policy in the sphere of freedom of conscience: ways of realization”. Representatives of the Catholic Church of Byzantine rite, the Orthodox Church and Sheik Ahmed Tamim, leader […]

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