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Trans-frontier campaign ” “

The “holy alliance” of the European institutions against the trafficking of human beings for purposes of sexual exploitation or cheap manpower is beginning a renewed offensive from Strasbourg. The European Parliament in fact approved a report on Tuesday 17 January that asks that steps be taken to coordinate and “integrate throughout the Community European strategies […]

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An awkward request” “

The European Commission, through a motivated judgement (dictamen), asked the Spanish government in recent days to amend its regime of VAT exemption on the purchase of properties destined for religious worship, to adjust it to EU norms. The Spanish authorities understand that “the legal foundation for the exemption stems from the Accord of 3 January […]

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Belgium: bishops’ calendar a bestseller ” “

The Catholic bishops of Belgium have published a 365-page calendar with a prayer for every day and have succeeded in selling 30,000 copies within days. It’s a “book” that has become a genuine bestseller and at the same time a bibliographic rarity. According to reports in the Belgian press, there are no plans for a […]

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Hungary: eight European Churches at Mariazell ” “

The secretaries of the eight Central European Bishops’ Conferences (Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary) that took part in the great pilgrimage to Mariazell in 2004 met in the Marian sanctuary on 16 January. Between 5 and 8 February 2006, as part of a pilgrimage to Rome, the representatives of the […]

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France: Catholic TV in difficulty” “

The French Bishops’ Conference has asked those in charge of the transmission “Le Jour du Seigneur” (The Lord’s Day) to help the Catholic television network KTO, which is facing major financial difficulties. According to a communiqué of the French bishops, released by the Apic press agency, the bishops of the permanent Council have asked the […]

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England: three-year programme for families” “

“Everybody’s welcome” is the programme launched by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales in response to “Listening 2004”, the report compiled on the basis of the interviews conducted with 15,000 faithful. From this 70-page document published last year it emerged that Catholic families in England sought support and assistance from the Church, but […]

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Hope in a new start” “” “

We publish the full text of the message of the bishops of the Coordination of the European and North American Bishops’ Conferences in support of the Church of the Holy Land issued on 19 January, at the end of their sixth pastoral visit to Jerusalem which began on 14 January. As Catholic bishops we came […]

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A more European island” “” “

A year and a half after Malta’s entry into the European Union, despite the difficulties that the island is going through, the clear division in public opinion about the wisdom or not of that entry has been greatly reduced and now seems a distant memory. The country now seems more united in tackling the challenges […]

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FAMIGLIA: PRESENTATO A ROMA IL “MANIFESTO” DEL FORUM PER LE ELEZIONI

Diritto alla vita, soggettività sociale, educazione, lavoro, fisco, welfare: tra i tanti che incrociano la vita della famiglia, sono questi i temi che il Forum delle associazioni familiari (cartello di 42 associazioni) ha individuato come più urgenti e inserito nel suo “Manifesto per le elezioni politiche del 2006”, presentato questa mattina a Roma e che […]

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ENGLAND: FROM THE PROLIFE MOVEMENT, A HARSH CONDEMNATION OF EUTHANASIA. REACTIONS AFTER BRUNEL UNIVERSITY’S DATA

No official comment from the English Bishops Conference to the data shown by a survey conducted by Brunel University, published on the medical journal, "Palliative medicine", according to which in 2004 approximately 3 thousand people, eight a day, underwent euthanasia, a practice that is illegal in the country. The figures speak clearly: of the 585 […]

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