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Inizio incerto” “

I negoziati sull’ingresso della Repubblica di Croazia nell’Unione europea cominceranno il 17 marzo 2005? È la domanda che in questi giorni pende come la spada di Damocle sulla società croata. Fino ad oggi, a quanto pare, non si era mai verificato il caso che un Paese candidato avesse un inizio dei negoziati così incerto anche […]

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Spagna: alcune precisazioni” “

L’ufficio comunicazioni sociali della Conferenza episcopale spagnola rende noto di avere inviato nei giorni scorsi una lettera al direttore del quotidiano italiano “La Repubblica”, con alcune precisazioni su un articolo pubblicato dalla testata il 29 gennaio 2005 a proposito dei rapporti tra Chiesa e governo spagnolo. Nella lettera si precisa che l’incontro tra padre Juan […]

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Spain: some corrections” “

The social communications office of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has announced it recently sent a letter to the editor in chief of the Italian daily “La Repubblica”, with some corrections about an article the paper had published on 29 January 2005 commenting on relations between the Church and the Spanish government. The letter points out […]

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Italy: 3rd European University Day” “

“Intellectual research as a way of meeting Christ” is the theme of the 3rd European University Day to be held in Rome on Saturday 5 March. Promoted by the Vicariate of Rome, the aim of the meeting is to raise the awareness of the university world in WYD 2005 in Cologne (11-21 August) through pastoral […]

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Germany: assembly of bishops” “

The situation of religious orders in Germany and World Youth Day will be on the agenda to be discussed during the spring plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ conference, to be held at Cloppenburg (Lower Saxony) from 14 to 17 February. At the centre of the meeting will be a study day on the theme […]

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Uncertain start” “

Will negotiations on the entry of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union begin on 17 March 2005? That is the question that is hanging like a sword of Damocles over Croatian society at the present time. Never before, it would seem, has there been a case of a candidate country having so uncertain […]

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Meeting with outsiders” “

From Belarus to Holland, from Poland to Lithuania, from France to Italy, from Russia to the Czech Republic: in almost all European countries there is a television channel of Catholic inspiration that transmits for several hours per day. Some of them directly produce religious programmes transmitted by the national channels. They represent one of the […]

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From masks to faces” “

Ash Wednesday (9 February) marks the opening of Lent, which will see all the churches engaged in various activities and projects, a large part of them with the aim of helping modern man to rediscover the values of prayer, renunciation and sharing. Below we present some of these proposals. BELGIUM: PRAYER, FASTING AND SHARING. “Carnival […]

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Ireland: collection for Myanmar” “

On behalf of the Irish diocese of Meath, Bishop Michael Smith, who heads the department of communication, finance and planning of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, recently announced a donation of 100,000 dollars for those struck by the tsunami disaster in south-east Asia. This money swells the funds raised by the national collection organized by Trocaire, […]

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Holland: missionary movement growing” “

A new missionary impetus would seem to be emerging in the Netherlands: this is what emerges from a study recently published by the Central Religious Missionary Office (CMBR), with the title “Religious and the missionary movement towards the future”. Dutch religious show themselves to be realistic. In the Western world there is little future – […]

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