L’Ue in breve

Erasmus cresce, soprattutto a EstContinua a crescere il numero degli studenti e dei docenti che usufruisce di un periodo di formazione all’estero nell’ambito dei 31 paesi che aderiscono al programma Erasmus. Nell’anno accademico 2006-2007 si sono mossi 160mila giovani e 26mila professori universitari, per un periodo medio di 6 mesi. Erasmus, creato nel 1987, è […]

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La sapienza e la forza

“Una nuova Pentecoste per la Chiesa in America”, la cui missione “ha sempre comportato un attrarre la gente «di ogni nazione che è sotto il cielo» entro un’unità spirituale, arricchendo il Corpo di Cristo con la molteplicità dei loro doni”. Ad invocarla, sabato mattina, 19 aprile, a New York, papa Benedetto XVI, nell’omelia della messa […]

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TOSCANA

Punti di sostegno

Un corso di formazione e un punto di sostegno per le giovani famiglie. Due iniziative che sono state presentate dal Forum toscano delle associazioni per i diritti della famiglia il 10 maggio scorso. Nell’occasione il Forum toscano e la Regione Toscana hanno siglato un protocollo d’intesa per la promozione di azioni di sostegno alle famiglie. […]

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FRONT PAGE

Would it have been possible?

In May each year the European institutions, and with them the European Movement, celebrate Europe Day.The Council of Europe was established on 5 May 1949: this was the first institutional organ aimed at promoting the unification of Europe. All the states of free Europe (i.e. Western Europe) belonged to it. However, the unification that the […]

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European Churches, Switzerland, Spain

Solidarity with China and MyanmarAll the European Bishops’ Conferences have expressed their solidarity, through prayer and concrete aid, with China and Myanmar (Burma), respectively struck by a devastating earthquake and a cyclone. The initiatives include that of Cardinal Keith Patrick O’ Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, who has sent a message of solidarity […]

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Ireland, Croatia, Germany

Ireland: card. Brady, “no to the law on civil unions”His Eminence Cardinal Sean Brady, Catholic Primate of Ireland, warned that any project aimed at granting homosexuals and couples living together the same benefits enjoyed by married couples is an attack against marriage. In the Irish Republic, homosexual couples who are living together have no rights. […]

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Slovenia, England, Luxembourg

Slovenia: for the life and the family”For the life and the family”: this was the topic of the national Pastoral Care plan of Slovenia’s Catholic Church held on May 10 in the Arena of Celje. The meeting was preceded, on April 26, by a day of reflection over the implementation of the guidelines of the […]

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CHINA - EUROPE

It’s not indifference

“China and Europe: indifference, confrontation and dialogue”. This is the topic of the Lectio cathedrae Magistralis which father Gianpaolo Salvini, director of the Jesuits’ bi-weelky will deliver next May 20th in the Political Sciences Faculty of the ‘Cattolica’ University in Miilan, on the occasion of the awarding of the international “Matteo Ricci” prize (1552-1610), in […]

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GERMANY

Together for the future

Organized for the first time in Magonza in 1848 by Catholic theologian Adam Franz Lennig, the Katholikentag (Day of Catholics) was originally created as the General Assembly for the 87 delegates of the German Catholic Church, with the purpose of improving relations with the German government. Since then, the Katholikentag underwent many changes. It now […]

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EU AND RELIGIONS

With the right words

Dialogue between religions to implement a pacified society; the need to educate the youth to acknowledge their own roots and have open solidarity-based approaches; political institutions recognizing “the public space” of religious communities. Many different topics were addressed on May 14th during the meeting on “Interreligious Dialogue and active citizenship” promoted by the EU in […]

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