” “Dailies and periodicals

“ After years of negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change becomes a reality in the absence of the world’s main polluter: the USA” is one of subtitles chosen by the French Catholic daily La Croix (15/2) for a series of special features dedicated to the international treaty to reduce the level of gas emissions […]

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Crackdown on unfair advertising aimed at children

The EU has announced a crackdown on the unfair advertising that targets the weakest consumers, especially children. As part of the draft EU directive to provide the Union with common rules for the protection of “the weakest consumers”, the internal market and consumers’ protection Committee of the European Parliament last week unanimously approved a report […]

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Aid to the Palestinians

The allocation announced by European Commissioner for external relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner in favour of the Palestinian population for 2005 will amount to approximately 250 million euros. Following a visit to the region and the ceasefire proclaimed by Israel and by the Palestinian Authority, the EU Commissioner emphasized the Union’s intention to “continue to provide political […]

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Journalism prize for the Mediterranean

During the meeting of Ministers of Culture of the States that form part of the Euro-Med Partnership, held in Rome in early February, the European Commission announced the introduction of a Prize for Journalism, which will be awarded for the best articles relating to the cultural heritage in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The competition, funded by the […]

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” “Internet: anti-spam

Coinciding with the celebration of World Day 2005 for a safer internet (8 February) and with the Commission’s launch of an awareness-raising campaign in schools coupled with a special competition (http://europa.eu.int/saferinternet), thirteen European countries have signed an accord aimed at combating at the EU level the phenomenon of the sending of unsolicited e-mails, so-called spam. […]

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Overcoming mutual fears ” “

Re-focusing on what unites the Christian churches; redefining the relation between minority and majority churches, between men and women, between young and old; accepting the challenges of secularisation and pluralism and finding “common responses” to such problems as peace, reconciliation and ethics: these are the questions being discussed in the ecumenical world. The process goes […]

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Slovakia: no collaboration with the atheist regime” “

“An attempt to discredit my person and the Catholic Church in Slovakia”: that how Bishop Jan Sokol of Bratislava-Trnava has reacted to the accusation of having collaborated with the Czechoslovak Communist regime, made in recent days by the Institute of National Memory in Slovakia, the state organization that analyses the crimes of Communism. According to […]

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Spain 3.5 million say ‘yes’ to RE at school” “

In Spain the pupils who have opted for Catholic religious education in public and private schools amount to 79.3% (equivalent to 3,507,986 of the total 4,421,425). The figures, referring to the 2004-2005 school year, were published in recent days by the Bishops’ Commission for teaching and catechesis, which publishes an annual report on the option […]

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Hungary: Central and East European bishops at Budapest ” “

Similarities and diversities between the countries of Central/Eastern and those of Western Europe, between the Churches, and between societies, were examined at the meeting of the heads of the Bishops’ Conferences of Central and Eastern Europe, held in Budapest from 12 to 14 February. Theme of the meeting: “What Christian concept of man today?”. “The […]

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Belarus: in memory of the martyrs of 1943″ “

Each year, on 17 and 18 February, Belorussian Catholics, both of the Latin and Byzantine rites, go on pilgrimage to the village of Rositsa, on the border with Latvia and close to the Russian frontier, to commemorate the martyrs of the 2nd World War, when the Nazis, during a reprisal against the civilian population of […]

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