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April 2005″ “

The main events involving the Catholic Church, the other Christian Churches and the main institutions of Europe in April 1 Meeting of the coordination group of the European Committee for university apostolate (1-3), under the aegis of the CCEE (Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe), at Bratislava. 2 Denmark and other countries of Europe […]

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Integrating with Europe” “

Bulgaria’s journey towards the European Union is proceeding ever more rapidly. Her membership of the EU is expected to take place in 2007. The Bulgarian Catholic Church is also busily preparing for the event. The president of the Bulgarian Bishops’ Conference, Msgr. Hristo Projkov , recently participated in a meeting held by Comece, the Commission […]

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Decision within 90 days ” “

2005 is the year of the great “normalisación” in Spain: the amnesty that ought to regularize the position of some 800,000 irregular immigrants. The pros and cons of the measure are reported by the Italian Migranti-press agency, which recently visited the “Delegatión diocesana de migraciones” in the Spanish capital and met its head, Father Antonio […]

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England: renewal of the diocese of Nottingham” “

An attempt to respond to the problem of the shortage of priests and prevent the risk that many parishes could be abolished as a consequence are the main objectives of the pastoral plan launched by the Bishop of Nottingham, Malcolm McMahon, at the time of his nomination in 2000. This is the first attempt of […]

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Belgium: Cardinal Danneels in China” “

The pastoral visit to China of Cardinal Danneels, archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles and president of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference, began on 28 March and will end on 6 April. This is the first official invitation made to a cardinal to visit the People’s Republic and came from the Chinese Deputy Minister responsible for religious affairs. The […]

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Spain: criticisms of the government’s immigration policy” “

Over Easter, some twenty Spanish Christian organizations – including Catholic Worker Action, Diocesan Caritas of Barcelona, the Union of Religious of Catalonia, Christianity and Justice, and Justice and Peace – joined together in denouncing the current immigration policy of the Spanish government. “We express our concern about the difficulties we ascertain in the process of […]

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Just two words” “

The people who gave to history great composers, Bach and Beethoven, and great thinkers, Kant and Hegel, showed that even in the dark century of the Shoah not everything is black: the “White Rose” students in Munich, the circle of Kreisau of von Moltke, Father R. Mayer, and all those who coalesced around these groups, […]

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TERRI SCHIAVO: CARD. MARTINO, UNA “INGIUSTA CONDANNA A MORTE DI UN’INNOCENTE”

” ““Una ingiusta condanna a morte di un’innocente, in una delle forme più disumane e crudeli, quale quella per fame e per sete”. Così il cardinale Renato Raffaele Martino, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace, definisce “l’angosciosa, straziante agonia” di Terry Schiavo, che “al di là delle possibili strumentalizzazioni politiche, impone un […]

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SPAGNA: ARCIDIOCESI DI MADRID, TRATTAMENTO “VERGOGNOSO” PER L’EDUCAZIONE RELIGIOSA

” “Si può riconoscere il diritto al “pieno sviluppo della personalità degli alunni” emarginando la dimensione religiosa nell’educazione? In Spagna sembra di sì, se andrà avanti la bozza della nuova Legge dell’educazione (Loe) che bandirebbe la religione dal programma scolastico. La religiosa Maria Rosa de la Cierva y de Hoces, segretaria della provincia ecclesiastica di […]

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TERRA SANTA: IL CONSIGLIO MONDIALE DELLE CHIESE CHIEDE UN NEGOZIATO SULLO STATUS DI GERUSALEMME

” ““Preoccupazione per le azioni del Governo israeliano che minacciano il raggiungimento di una giusta pace per palestinesi e israeliani mandando a vuoto i negoziati sullo status finale di Gerusalemme all’interno del diritto internazionale” è stata espressa oggi in una lettera aperta del Consiglio mondiale delle Chiese (Wcc). “Mentre l’attenzione mondiale è rivolta al ritiro […]

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