Day of "safety on the internet"” “

The 2006 World Day of Safety on the Internet was celebrated on 7 February; the initiative was supported by 95 organizations of 36 countries (including the European Union, the USA and Russia). The highlight of the event, organized by the Insafe network, was the “blogathon” or “blog-marathon”, a multilingual forum on line; geared to the […]

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Cloning: no to egg donation” “

“The new possibility given to women to donate egg cells for cloning is shameful”, said Michaela O’Sullivan, spokesperson of “Life”, the British pro-like movement, commenting on news that the Human Fertilization and Embriology Authority (Hfea) has decided to liberalise the law regarding egg donation for cloning experiments and make it easier for women in the […]

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Scotland: violence, the archbishop intervenes” “

Episodes of random violence continue to be registered in Glasgow, in Scotland. The most recent incidents – during which several cars were set alight – have convinced the Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti to issue a communiqué in which the leader of the most important Catholic community in Scotland says he is “horrified by the […]

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Criminality: street angels” “

When they see the blue jackets of the British navy emblazoned with the name “Street Pastor”, the vandals of Southend on Sea, a town on the south coast of England, stop beating people up and immediately accept a cup of hot tea and a chat. In this way criminality and violence have been brought under […]

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The gravest damage” “

“Today it’s clear that” the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is continuing, but with other means. Equality between the religious components in the country does not yet exist” and “a revision of the Dayton accords” that “have especially damaged the Croatian Catholics” is urgently needed, says Cardinal VINKO PULJIC , archbishop of Vrhbosna Sarajevo, who […]

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Austria: a prize for "I’m ok"” “

Katalin Zanin, founder and director of the cultural project “Ich bin ok” (“I’m ok”) in support of the disabled, was awarded the “GlobArt Innovation Award” at a ceremony in Vienna on 18 February. The aim of “Ich bin ok” (www.ichbinok.at) is the promotion and development of the personality of children and adolescents suffering from Down’s […]

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Germany: bishops in assembly” “

The 70 members of the German Bishops’ Conference will meet for their spring plenary assembly in Berlin from 6 to 9 March. At the centre of the meeting, which will be held for the first time in the German capital, will be a study day devoted to prospects for the youth apostolate, including an evaluation […]

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Vatican: six new European cardinals” “

“On 24 March I will hold a Consistory in which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals”. The announcement was made by Benedict XVI on 22 February, at the end of his Wednesday general audience. There will be fifteen new cardinals: twelve below the age of 80 will enter into the […]

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Thoughts, experiences, projects” “

The most significant events for the Ccee (Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe) over the last three months were the plenary assembly of Comece (Commission of the episcopate of the European Community), held in Brussels (16-18 November 2005); the visit of a delegation of European and North American bishops to the Holy Land (13-19 […]

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Provoked by fiction” “” “

Religious literature is going through a period of revival throughout the world. This can be noted also from the windows of Spanish bookshops. Books proliferate, with a vocation as bestsellers, which we could comprise in a new genre of fantasy, something like religious fiction and which, though presented with historical zeal and scientific rigour, in […]

di Isidro Catela Marcos " "Director, Social Communications Office of the Bishops' Conference of Spain " "" "" "" "" "" "