PAPA AL REGINA CAELI: APPELLO AI GOVERNI PER UN’AZIONE “CONCRETA E TEMPESTIVA” CONTRO LA FAME

Un appello ai governi e all’opinione pubblica perché si promuova “un’azione concreta e tempestiva per garantire a tutti, in particolare ai bambini, la libertà dalla fame”. Lo ha rivolto ieri mattina papa Benedetto XVI prima della recita del Regina Caeli, ricordando l’iniziativa “Il mondo in marcia contro la fame” (Walk the World), indetta dal Programma […]

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OASIS

Thoughts in Arabic

“Years ago, at a meeting with some Catholic bishops in Islamic countries, the need was pointed out to have suitable cultural tools at our disposal to foster Christians in those lands”, in the consciousness that “Western languages (English and French) would not easily facilitate the inculturation of the faith” in them, said the Patriarch of […]

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Energy cocktail

An international public audition on optimising energy supplies for the European Union was held at the headquarters of the Economic and Social Committee (EASC) in Brussels last week. The various and at times conflicting opinions that emerged in the course of the debate – in which political leaders and professionals in the sector participated – […]

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“Leonardo Da Vinci” Ambassadors

The ceremony for the nomination of the first “Leonardo Da Vinci Ambassadors” took place in Graz, in Austria, under the auspices of the European Commission and the Austrian Presidency of the Union. Given the task of promoting the EU’s Leonardo Da Vinci programme for the quality of teaching, professional training and mobility, the twenty ambassadors […]

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Modernizing European universities

Last week the European Commission adopted a position containing proposals to “contribute to the debate on the necessary modernization of the Universities of the European Union”. The Commission has identified 9 sectors in need of reform to “create a real economy of knowledge”. They are: increasing the proportion of graduates who spend at least one […]

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Eu/China: what future trade relations?

To facilitate the drafting of the Communication on the economic and trade relations between European Union and China, awaited for the end of this year, the Commission launched a public consultation in recent days; it is open to all the parties concerned, who are invited “to send in comments on the ways in which the […]

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EUROPE-PALESTINE

Aid for peace

“If a person sacrifices his own life for peace, that life is well spent”. MAHMOUD ABBAS knows that “his life is in danger”, but he intends to “expend himself to the last for the good of his people”. The President of the Palestinian National Authority made an official visit to the European Parliament on Tuesday […]

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SOCIAL PROBLEMS

An alternative economy

The best social projects against disadvantage, unemployment and discrimination in Europe were presented in Warsaw on 10-12 May, during a conference on “Social economy: a model for inclusion, entrepreneurship and local development” promoted by the Equal Community Initiative, a project of the European Commission funded by the European Social Fund. The social economy, formed of […]

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Wcc: firm rejection of sterile seeds

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is opposing “terminator technology”. In a communiqué released on 15 May, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary, calls on member churches and ecumenical partners to take action to stop the creation and production in the laboratory of sterile seeds (permitting a single harvest only), better known as “Terminator […]

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Switzerland: Council of Religions established

A Council of Religions that brings together representatives of the three national Churches (Protestant, Catholics, Old Catholics), and of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Switzerland, was founded in Bern on 15 May, after a year and a half of preparations. During the official ceremony marking its inauguration, the members of the Council signed a […]

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