UMBRIA

Tra la lode e la critica

Una legge sugli “ecomusei”: il provvedimento è stato approvato a maggioranza (16 sì e 6 astensioni) dal Consiglio regionale l’11 dicembre 2007 ed è volto alla finalizzazione, valorizzazione e promozione del patrimonio culturale-ambientale-etnologico dell’Umbria. L’opposizione si è astenuta, giudicando carente e inefficace la copertura finanziaria della norma. La legge tenta di superare il concetto tradizionale […]

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BASILICATA

Una nuova risorsa

Lo scorso 13 dicembre, la Giunta regionale della Basilicata ha approvato il “Programma regionale delle iniziative in favore degli immigrati residenti in Basilicata per l’anno 2007”, che impegna il bilancio regionale per una somma di 400mila euro, dei quali 280mila destinati al potenziamento dei servizi a favore degli immigrati e 120mila riservati alla Regione per […]

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FRONT PAGE

The real stars

As we approach the end of 2007, and wish to draw up a balance sheet of these past twelve months, we cannot but be happy about the new progress made in the process of European integration – the adoption of the new Reform Treaty, the extension of the Schengen zone – and about the sound […]

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Germany: “no” to weapon trading

The German Churches criticized the policy on weapon exportation by the Federal Government: “the tendency to increase weapon exportation is incessant”, said in Berlin, on December 17 Karl Jüsten, Catholic President of the Common Conference Church and Development (Gkke). Jüsten highlighted the increased number of authorizations to weapon exports; from 1.5 billion to 7.7 billion […]

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Austria: “the Church isn’t afraid of the truth”

The inseparable link between science and truth was underlined by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, President of Austria’s Bishops Conference, on past 15 December in Wien. In his address delivered during the ceremony for the “Cardinal Innitzer” award , assigned to personalities operating in the scientific field, , Schönborn affirmed that “by assigning prizes for Scientific research […]

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Luxembourg: for an accessible dwelling

“A guaranteed fund for rents and dwelling situation monitoring”, these are the objectives of the diocesan Commission Diaconie and of the Caritas (Cddc) in Luxembourg which for the past months have been engaged in discussing the lodging situation in the Country. In fact the Sozialwort (report on the social situation), focused on the dwelling situation, […]

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Austria: Christians on the decrease

The number of Christians decreases while more people are searching for the meaning to life. This was the ambivalent result of a survey on the sociological evolution of Christianity in Austria. The report, presented in Wien in the past few days by Josef Höchtl, President of the Austrian Association for Understanding Between Peoples, highlights the […]

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Germany: the young are more religious than the adults

Approximately 70% of Germans are religious or very religious. These were the results of a research on religion by the Bertelsmann Foundation made public on December 17. As reported by Kna, a German Catholic news agency, the survey shows there is no tendency to drift away from religion. The situation is more complex than it […]

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Slovenia: a prayer for Europe

A prayer for European rulers and people to celebrate the semester of Slovenian presidency of the European Union. It was made public by the press office of the Bishops Conference of Slovenia. “God Father of all humanity – reads the text – You want us to be happy, that there is no more poverty, nor […]

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Spain: the role of the family

“We are living in a complex society, where the proposals of lay culture expects for life to be organized as if God didn’t exist”. This sentence was part of the message of the bishops of the Under-Commission for the Family and the Defense of Life of Spain’s Bishops Conference on the occasion of the Day […]

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