ELEZIONI IN IRAQ: NOTA SETTIMANALE

Pubblichiamo la nota Sir di questa settimana. La ventesima vittima italiana del sanguinosissimo dopoguerra iracheno, il maresciallo Simone Cola, arriva in uno dei momenti più temuti e cruciali: la stretta finale verso le elezioni politiche del 30 gennaio, che dovrebbero dare la prima forma di rappresentanza legittimata dal voto al martoriato Paese medio-orientale.I vari terrorismi, […]

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PAPA ALL’ANGELUS: “L’UNITÀ È UN DONO DI DIO DA IMPLORARE SENZA STANCARSI”

” “”Si fa sempre più chiara la consapevolezza che l’unità è in primo luogo un dono di Dio da implorare senza stancarsi nell’umiltà e nella verità”. Così Giovanni Paolo II ieri prima dell’Angelus nella settimana dedicata dalle Chiese cristiane alla preghiera per l’unità. Appuntamento ecumenico che ha avuto quest’anno per tema “Cristo, unico fondamento della […]

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Lest we forget” “” “

I come from an ordinary British family, with a relatively poor social and economic background. That is far from the world of our royal family. They probably know very little of my world, and I certainly know almost nothing of theirs, except that they are frequently the focus of press and media attention. What we […]

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Euro: forged coins and banknotes on the increase” “

The number of forged euros withdrawn from circulation in the 12 countries that adopted the single currency is increasing, but the figure remains modest in comparison with the scale of the pre-single currency phenomenon. The anti-fraud Office of Brussels (OLAF) has published the data on forged currency: 2,339 coins were withdrawn in 2002, the year […]

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One, a hundred, a thousand capitals” “

One Europe, a hundred, a thousand capitals. While the progress of a Europe of 25 States (destined to grow to 27, 28, 30 or more) continues towards economic and social integration and political unity, one problem, apparently less important, remains to be solved: what is the capital of the European Union? It is pointless to […]

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Mounier’s utopia” “

“Listing on the internet” all the “personalist families” scattered all over the world, “united in the distinction based on their respective linguistic areas”: that’s the proposal made by ATTILIO Danese , editor of the review “Prospettiva Persona” in Teramo (Italy), during the first international Conference dedicated by Italy to Emmanuel Mounier on the centenary of […]

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France: 18 million euros for the victims” “

Church aid to the populations of South-East Asia struck by the tsunami on 26 December must continue and, more especially, must aim at reconstruction and the future. This is the “guideline” spelt out by Archbishop André Lacrampe of Besancon, chairman of the Council of solidarity to the aid associations and relief services engaged in helping […]

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Austria: debt moratorium not enough” “

With a communiqué issued in recent days, the office of coordination of the Austrian Episcopal Conference for international development and mission (KOO) expressed its view on the proposed moratorium of the public debts of the countries struck by the tsunami on 26 December. “This moratorium represents a positive gesture but is not the solution of […]

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Belgium: Cardinal Danneels commemorates the victims” “

Even though the answers may be different, the question posed before the mystery of death is the same for believers and non-believers alike: “why?”. So said the archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, in his homily during a mass celebrated in Brussels Cathedral on 15 January, in memory of the victims of the tsunami that […]

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Celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Council” “

In Switzerland too, the Jubilee of the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council will be commemorated with a series of conferences promoted by the four theological Faculties of Switzerland (Chur, Fribourg, Lucerne and Lugano). Each faculty will propose the examination of a conciliar text through the reflections of historians and theologians. […]

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