PRIMA PAGINA

No alla paura dell’altro

In tema di immigrazione i titoli dei giornali delle scorse settimane parlavano del Regno Unito come di un Paese sotto assedio. Le cifre esatte sono difficili da definire, proprio perché molti immigrati non sono registrati presso le autorità competenti. Tuttavia, secondo i dati ufficiali, dopo l’allargamento dell’Unione europea nel 2004, sono quasi 300.000 gli immigrati […]

di Alexander Desforges Inghilterra

Italy: Catholic webmasters

The third assembly of the Association of Italian Catholic Webmasters met in Rome in recent days (5-6 June) ( www.weca.it http://www.weca.it ). WECA is the “first association in Europe of the Catholic world present on the web”, as recalled by its President, Monsignor Franco Mazza, vice-director of the office of social communications of the Italian […]

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Portugal: unusual vocational ministry

Jazz concerts and marketing techniques for the vocational ministry: that’s the idea of the Portuguese religious on the Commission of Vocational Ministry (CPV), who have decided, in their contacts with the young, to “get to know the situations in which they live and to use their languages”, explains Sister Margarita Ribeirinho, CPV delegate of the […]

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FRONT PAGE

No to fear of foreigners

In terms of immigration the headlines of the British papers in recent weeks have spoken of the United Kingdom as a country under siege. Exact figures are difficult to come by, precisely because many immigrants are not registered with the competent authorities. Nonetheless, according to the official data, after the enlargement of the European Union […]

di Alexander Desforges England

European dailies and periodicals

The web pages of the main European dailies of 8 June were immediately filled with news of the death of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born terrorist considered the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden. He was killed during a US aerial bombardment at Baquba, 65 km north […]

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EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION

Continuing along the same road

“The Constitutional Treaty is not dead. On the contrary, it is alive and kicking: ratification by various member countries of the European Union is continuing according to plan. Moreover, in these first months of 2006 I have felt a positive improvement of the climate surrounding the future of our institutions”, says Jo Leinen, chairman of […]

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IMMIGRATION

Against ambiguity

An appeal to recognise, “as Christians and single communities”, our sins towards migrants, shown by “the little attention” we pay to the biblical texts in favour of the foreigner, the stranger, “one of the reasons why Europe has been and is so prone to surrender to forms of nationalism and xenophobic exclusion”, is contained in […]

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SPAIN

Two world meetings

The international Fair of the family, the congress on pastoral theology, the rosary with children, the vigil with testimonies and the final mass with Benedict XVI: these are the main events of the 5th World Meeting of the Families to be held in Valencia from 1 to 9 July with the slogan “the transmission of […]

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HOLLAND

A great challenge

The “effective” use of the means of social communication that the Church has at her disposal for evangelising, and hence radio, television and internet to “place men and women in contact with Jesus Christ and His Church”: that is one of the key points in the pastoral letter on mission in the 21st century that […]

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“Medicine babies” and eugenics

Again through the Bioethics Commission, the Swiss bishops, in a statement issued on 7 June, have censured “medicine babies” and eugenics as “an odious practice and “ethically unacceptable”: they recalled the case of the first “medicine baby” of Swiss nationality, a baby girl conceived and born in a laboratory in Brussels in January 2005 to […]

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