Council of Europe

Six months with Putin

“The bad pupil in command”: a headline published in the Strasbourg daily, the DNA, in recent days sums up the deep concerns aroused by the start of the new semester of the revolving Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: since Saturday 20 May it has been in the hands of […]

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culture

The primacy of relations

Creating a network of persons capable of ‘mobilising’ for Europe, sensitising consciences and promoting integration: that’s the objective set by the fourth year of the ‘European Weeks’, promoted by the Catholic University of Lyon in recent days. This year the event is inspired by the theme of ‘Europe and its project: political and cultural challenges’. […]

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holy land

European presences

The Palestinian elections in January and the Israeli elections in March, contrary to every hope, have not, at least so far, changed anything in the situation in the Holy Land, reports Caritas in Jerusalem in the last number of its newsletter “Staying in Touch”. Presenting its initiative of solidarity “Special operations appeal” (SOA) in favour […]

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european martyrs

Life donated

Ten years ago, exactly on 23 May 1996, a communiqué of the Algerian GIA (Armed Islamic Group) announced that on the morning of 21 May it had brutally assassinated the seven monks of the monastery of Tibhirine. They died as martyrs, in a period in which Algeria had fallen into a vicious circle of unprecedented […]

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front page

Together with the Fathers

In 1942, a group of Jesuits, including the future cardinals Jean Danielou and Henri de Lubac, created, or more exactly invented, a new series of books, to which they gave the title Sources Chrétiennes : Christian sources whence to derive spiritual food and, at the same time, sources of Christianity in which to find the […]

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Italy: the 4th National Ecclesial Meeting

2,700 participants, including representatives of the dioceses (bishops and delegates), special delegates (Italians abroad, immigrants, missionaries), delegates of the national organizations of institutes of consecrated life and of national associations, guests, experts, rapporteurs and animators of workgroups: that’s the “people” of the 4th Ecclesial Meeting of the Italian Church, due to be held in Verona, […]

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Spain: bishops, media and journalists

The bishops of the Commission for social communication of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference have thanked the media and their professionals “for the service they provide to the free and democratic exercise of public life”. But at the same time they warn that this service “cannot be performed if God and transcendental values remain confined to […]

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Bulgaria: new cathedral in Sofia

The new cathedral of St. Joseph was consecrated in the Bulgarian capital on 21 May. It has been erected exactly on the same site as the old cathedral, destroyed during the bombardments of the Second World War. During the Communist regime, the authorities never gave permission for the construction of a new church, and so […]

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PORTUGAL: IV FERTILISATION, A PRO-LIFE, PRO-REFERENDUM COMMITTEE HAS COLLECTED 75,000 SIGNATURES (2)

Voters will be asked to answer four questions: “Do you agree with a law that makes for the creation of a higher number of human embryos than that which has to be immediately transferred into the mother, and just once? Do you agree with a law that makes for the birth of a child without […]

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PORTOGALLO: PROCREAZIONE ASSISTITA, UN COMITATO PRO-REFERENDUM A FAVORE DELLA VITA HA RACCOLTO 75.000 FIRME (2)

Agli elettori verrà chiesto di rispondere a quattro domande su questi temi: “E’ d’accordo con una legge che permette la creazione di embrioni umani in numero superiore a quello che deve essere trasferito alla madre immediatamente e una solo volta? E’ d’accordo con una legge che permette di generare un figlio senza che un padre […]

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