Gestire meglio il cielo unico europeo

Il Gruppo di alto livello sul futuro della regolamentazione in materia di aviazione – costituito nel 2006 su iniziativa del Vicepresidente della Commissione e Commissario ai Trasporti Jacques Barrot – ha presentato venerdì 6 Luglio a Bruxelles il “Piano d’azione per un sistema di gestione del traffico aereo integrato a livello comunitario”, documento nel quale […]

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Una regola “laica”

“Laicità e democrazia sono a rischio di estinzione quando si fa pressione per modificare le linee-guida applicative della legge in modo che possano servire come grimaldello per scardinare la legge stessa”. A lanciare il grido d’allarme è stata Maria Luisa Di Pietro, co-presidente (con Bruno Dallapiccola) dell’Associazione “Scienza e Vita”, durante la conferenza stampa svoltasi […]

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It’s not a magic formula

ICD: where does it start and end? Which actors are involved? Is culture a channel or the object of dialogue If secular institutions do not do religion, how can they engage in interfaith work through ICD? Despite this, many EU policymakers now see ICD as the magic formula to engage with Muslim communities within and […]

di Sara Silvestri lecturer in Religion and Global Politics City University (London)

Austria: no Sunday shopping for the European Cup

Catholic Action of the archdiocese of Vienna has begun a campaign to collect signatures against the Sunday opening of shops during the European football championships in 2008 (7-29 June), which will be held in Switzerland and Austria (the cup final will be played in Vienna). The aim of the campaign is to stop the opening […]

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France: World Missionary Week

World Missionary Week will be celebrated in France from 14 to 21 October. It will culminate in World Missionary Day on Sunday, 21 October. News of the missionary week is carried by the Fides international press agency, which reports that all parishes and movements in France, each according to its own ecclesial role, are invited […]

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Belgium: exhibition of icons and youth clubs

An exhibition of over 100 icons produced over the last ten years by the Salesian iconographic workshop at Farnières was inaugurated in recent days in the Don Bosco Centre of Spirituality at Grand-Halleux, in Belgium. The workshop, directed by Sister Hilda Cartigny, is attended by many youngsters who are introduced to the basic techniques of […]

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Spain: document on the Catholic school

The Spanish bishops, “conscious of the importance of education and the difficulties that is going through at the present time”, have published, in recent days, a document with the title “The Catholic School. The Church’s offer in Spain for education in the 21st century”. According to the bishops, “at the start of this new century […]

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Portugal: youth for mission

In Portugal, the number of organizations that dedicate themselves exclusively to the realization of missionary projects and development aid is growing: there are now 41 of them, including religious congregations and Christian aid organizations. The number of young people who support these missionary volunteer services is also growing from year to year: 260 youth have […]

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Bulgaria: school of volunteer service

The Balkan summer school for volunteers was held in Russe, capital of the diocese of Nicopoli, from 2 to 6 July. Organized by the local Caritas, the summer school was attended by representatives from Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria. The focal points of the course were such questions as the insertion of volunteers in […]

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POLAND

46% of Catholics go to Sunday Mass

46% of Polish Catholics attended Sunday Mass and 16% took the Eucharist in 2006. The figures are reported by the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic Church in Poland. According to the experts, the faith of the Polish people, strongly rooted in society, has not changed following the discovery among the clergy of some collaborators […]

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