UE E RELIGIONI

L’obiettivo comune

“La fede può essere un importante fattore di integrazione perché la religione è una parte essenziale dell’identità di molte persone”. Si deve allo European Policy Centre il documento di lavoro preparato in vista dell’incontro del 14 maggio a Bruxelles sul dialogo tra le religioni. L’appuntamento è fra i principali eventi del 2008 quale Anno europeo […]

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PARLAMENTO EUROPEO

Prima i diritti umani

La visita ufficiale del Dalai Lama al Parlamento europeo è stata fissata per il prossimo 3 dicembre e avverrà nella sede di Strasburgo. Hans-Gert Poettering, presidente dell’Assemblea dei 27, ne ha dato notizia la scorsa settimana, a margine dei lavori della plenaria svoltasi a Bruxelles il 7 e 8 maggio, incontrando Kesang Yangki Takla, ministro […]

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FRONT PAGE

A Bridge between peoples

In the framework of the recent trip of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, special emphasis was given to the pontiff’s visit to the UN glass building, which Ccee (Council of European Bishops’ Conferences) Secretary General Aldo Giordano reported on for Sir Europe.In this circumstance, we wish to recall the will of Peter’s successors […]

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Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Slovenia

Bosnia-Herzegovina: preserving Christian roots The “love of our neighbour” is important “for the creation of world peace”. These were the welcoming words pronounced by the bishop of Kärnten Msgr. Carinzia Alois Schwarz, upon the arrival of a delegation from the Archdiocese of Sarajevo. The meeting, attended by His Eminence Cardinal Vinko Puljic, was held in […]

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Austria, Scotland, Germany

Austria: preventing is better than punishing”Prevention is much more effective than harsher punishment”, declared Msgr. Klaus Küng commenting the tragic case of incest in Amstetten. In an interview published May 3rd by the daily “Die Presse”, the bishop of St. Pölten underlined that in “cases of extreme wickedness such as this, the question is the […]

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Poland, England, Ukraine

Poland: “Templeton” award to cosmologist priest Michael Heller, a 72-year-old Polish priest and expert in cosmology, is the winner of the 2008 Templeton Awards. This was announced today, at a press conference in New York, by the John Templeton Foundation that created the award (820 thousand pounds) in 1973. Born in 1936 in Tarnow (Poland), […]

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ecumenism

Children of the one Father

The exchange of greetings in St. Peter’s Square between Pope Benedict XVI and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all the Armenians, ended with a fraternal embrace, sealed by an Armenian song, before the start of Wednesday’s general audience. The Patriarch had arrived in Rome on Tuesday 6 May. He comes at […]

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comece

With a single voice

“A common foreign policy must lead to expand the sense of goodness among Europeans”. This was the conclusion of the analysis drawn by Father Henri Madelin in April’s issue of “Europe infos”, monthly magazine of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) and Ocipe (Catholic information and intiative Office for Europe) introduced […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

Pros and cons

“The economic and monetary Union is a solid construction”, “an undeniable success”; “in a period of great uncertainty like this, in which the prices of energy and food are increasing, we need to congratulate ourselves on having at our disposal a single currency, based on a market that comprises 320 million people”, declared Joaquin Almunia, […]

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enlargement (3)

The new twelve

Third step of the trip of SirEurope (cfr. 19 e 23/2008) in the new enlargement Countries. From Baltic Estonia, former Soviet Republic independent since August 1991, the director of the Centre for the development of Pölva district, Kaire Mets, gave an insight into the pros and cons of EU adhesion. Almost four years have passed […]

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