Ungheria: 50 anni dalla rivoluzione del 1956

“L’Ungheria possa costruire un futuro libero da ogni oppressione e condizionamento ideologico”. È l’auspicio formulato da Benedetto XVI nel messaggio inviato al presidente della Repubblica di Ungheria László Sólyom, in occasione delle celebrazioni per il 50° anniversario della rivolta degli ungheresi (23 ottobre 1956). Nel messaggio, Benedetto XVI ricorda i ripetuti appelli di Pio XII, […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Una bussola per l’Europa

Al seminario europeo tenuto a Clermont Ferrand dal 9 all’11 ottobre scorsi per iniziativa della Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della comunità europea) erano presenti anche numerosi giovani (cfr. SirEuropa 68 /2006). Tra questi Johanna Touzel, addetta stampa della stessa Comece alla quale abbiamo chiesto un pensiero sull’Europa.A Clermont-Ferrand, nella regione dell’Auvergne, terra di vulcani spenti […]

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ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA

She tried to tell the truth

It is extremely difficult to understand what is happening in Russia today, not only for foreigners, but also for many Russian citizens, due to the false and fragmentary image of the country given by the mass media. That’s why it is very important to have journalists who try to offer a true image of the […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

Half century of history

The Eu is preparing the celebrations to mark its fiftieth birthday next spring. The date corresponds to the 50th anniversary of the signing of the founding Treaties of the European Economic Community (25 March 1957). In recent days the Commission chose the logo for all the events being planned to mark the anniversary, beginning with […]

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ARMENIAN TRAGEDY

A silence lasting 60 years

The writer of Armenian origin, Antonia Arslan, former professor of Italian literature at the University of Padua, says she is “perplexed” by the recent decision approved, with 106 votes in favour and 19 against, by the National Assembly in France to prosecute anyone who denies the Armenian genocide. The new law declares that it is […]

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ITALY

The reasons for hope

The Fourth National Congress of the National Congress ended on Friday with a message to all the local Churches in Italy. Held in Verona from 16 to 20 October, the Congress had as its theme “Witnesses of the Risen Jesus, Hope of the world”. Both in its preparation and in its holding, it was structured […]

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FRANCE

Appeal to the conscience

“What have you done to your brother?”: six months before the presidential, legislative and municipal elections due to take place in France in the spring of 2007, and in the run up to the Socialist primaries (on 16 November), the Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has chosen this title for a message addressed […]

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PORTUGAL

It’s always “yes” to life

Last Thursday, 19 October, the Portuguese Parliament approved the proposed referendum on abortion. The question that will be put to citizens, contained in the text proposed by the Socialist Party, will be: “Do you agree with the depenalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, if carried out, at the woman’s choice, in the first 10 […]

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Northern Ireland: the peace process continues

“Positive”: that’s how Lord Eames, Primate of the Anglican Church of Ireland, the second most important Protestant church in Northern Ireland after the Presbyterian Church, called his meeting with Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein, the political party that represents the military wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), in Belfast on 23 October. Accompanied […]

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England: “no” to entrance quotas for schools

The amendment of the law on education, which would mean that schools run by the Catholic Church and funded by the British State would have to allocate a quarter of their places to pupils of other faiths, will be debated by the House of Lords on 30 October. “We oppose quotas because it would mean […]

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