KEK: more cooperation between Europe and the USA” “

In the light of the tragic events that have happened in the world following 11 September, deeper cooperation needs to be fostered between the European Churches and the Churches of the United States. The appeal was made by the secretary general of KEK (Conference of the European Churches), Keith Clements, during his meeting with the […]

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England: concern and hope for the Afghan crisis” “

A renewed condemnation of the attacks on the Twin Towers of 11 September, recognition of the right to self-defence balanced by the need for a just peace, the conviction that any military action must be targeted and limited in time, and hope in the improvement of the conditions of the Afghan people, thanks also to […]

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A Church that is listened to” “” “

The Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales has just ended in Leeds. Five main topics were on the agenda: the war in Afghanistan, the situation in the Holy Land, the opposition to euthanasia, the appeal to the government to ban human cloning and the setting up of a unit to combat the […]

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In Europe it’s a success” “

France and Italy: a new thirst for spirituality. “Two sister cultures with common Christian and Latin roots in constant dialectical relation between integration and confrontation”: that’s how the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Paul Poupard, reads the almost parallel development of religious publishing in France and Italy; a link that will lead […]

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Help for small and medium businesses” “

The latest round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ended with an apparent success at Doha, in Qatar. It’s now a question of seeing whether the new WTO rules will succeed in guaranteeing global development in a more balanced manner. To discuss the point, SirEurope met Gerhard Hueler , the Austrian director of […]

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war and the media" "

Dying for the truth” “” “

President of the Foreign Press ‘Association in Italy, which represents some 500 journalists from all over the world in Rome, and correspondent of “Antena 3 Television”, the Spaniard Antonio Pelayo is convinced that the first victim of the war in Afghanistan is the truth; yet “information is a paramount right because on it is founded […]

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A permissive regulation” “

In response to the modifications introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 in the field of judicial cooperation in civil suits, the member States have decided to transform into a Regulation the so-called “Brussels II Convention” of 28 May 1999, never ratified, relating to the harmonization of legislation in EU countries on the dissolution […]

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The family in Europe” “” “

A family “in the plural”, rather heterogeneous, but with some features shared in common between the “nordic” countries and the countries of the Mediterranean area. That’s the portrait of the family in Europe, as it emerges from the last Report of the CISF (International Centre of Studies on the Family) on the family in Italy, […]

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Switzerland: this is the future” “” “

“The Family is the future”. This was the theme of the international Symposium on the family held in Fribourg, in Switzerland, on 17 and 18 November. Organized by the Swiss Foundation of the Family (FSF), the Symposium tried to review the situation of the family and to make proposals for the solution of the main […]

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United Kingdom: Catholic counsellors” “

Great Britain has the highest rate of divorces and second marriages in Europe. In 1981 there were 275,000 marriages in which husband and wife had not been previously married, 140,000 second marriages for one or both partners and 150,000 divorces. In 1997 first marriages totalled 190,000, second marriages remained at the level of 140,000, while […]

di Silvia Guzzetti - London" "" "