CALABRIA

Ciò che non si consuma

Il territorio calabrese “non è immune dal processo generalizzato di nascita, crescita, declino e scomparsa che coinvolge tutte le cose! Saper governare in modo corretto la possibilità di fare rivivere i momenti sociali, culturali e religiosi più significativi del nostro passato, significa scongiurare la scomparsa di un patrimonio inestimabile e necessario al rafforzamento dei valori […]

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TOSCANA

Due firme per la casa

Duecento alloggi nelle province di Arezzo e Firenze per giovani coppie, anziani e famiglie in difficoltà. È questo la prima delle possibili opportunità che deriveranno dall’accordo firmato, nei giorni scorsi, dal presidente della Regione Claudio Martini e il cardinale Ennio Antonelli, presidente della Conferenza episcopale toscana. L’intesa prevede che la Cet metterà a disposizione alloggi […]

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LOMBARDIA

Più uniti contro il disagio

Valorizzare il ruolo delle associazioni sul territorio, rafforzando la collaborazione istituzionale per favorire la promozione sociale dei disabili. Queste le finalità della legge regionale 24 del 1993 “Erogazione di contributo ordinario alle articolazioni regionali ed alle sezioni provinciali dell’Unione italiana ciechi, dell’Ente nazionale per la protezione e l’assistenza ai sordomuti, dell’Associazione nazionale mutilati ed invalidi […]

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FRONT PAGE

A winning card

Universities “more suited” to responding to the challenges of the “globalization of production” and the “diffusion of knowledge” are those “able to be very open to the world” and at the same testify to “a deep rooting in a national or regional history, culture and society”, said MICHEL WIEVIORKA , of the School of Higher […]

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Portugal: new family association in favour of life

The Convention for life and the family of the region of Minho was the first public initiative of the new association “In the Family”, founded following the campaign conducted by the “Minho com Vida” movement during the recent referendum against the de-penalization of abortion in Portugal. The association’s President, Fernando Almeida, underlined the profound significance […]

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England: “the work of COPCA” bearing fruit

Eileen Shearer, head of COPCA (Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults), the agency to which the Catholic Church of England and Wales has assigned the task of implementing the recommendation of the Nolan Report on sexual violence committed against children, will leave her post in July. Her decision comes at the […]

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Spain: “no” to therapeutic cloning

The Spanish Parliament finally approved the bill on biomedical research on 14 June. The law encourages and regulates so-called “therapeutic cloning” in view of the supposed “benefits” and ‘improvements’ it promises for the health of citizens. So Spain becomes the fourth European country to accept therapeutic cloning and the ninth in the world, after the […]

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CEC

A common process

“The Council of Europe (CE) can only achieve its aims together with the Churches and the religious communities, not without them and certainly not against them”, said ULRICH BUNJES of the Office of the Council of Europe for the coordination of intercultural dialogue, addressing the participants in the annual plenary of the Church and Society […]

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youth

Italy: from all over Europe with the Pope in Loreto

Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese and Iraqi youth are also expected to be in Loreto with Benedict XVI (1-2 September 2007). They will form part of the 800 delegates from 50 countries of Europe and the Mediterranean who will join their Italian counterparts for the key event of the so-called Agora of Italian youth, the three-yearly youth […]

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Germany: hand of friendship to Balkan youth

Over 200,000 students in German schools participated in the Social Day in support of educational projects in South-Eastern Europe on 19 June. German schoolchildren performed little jobs to raise funds for the project “Living Together”, which promotes reconciliation between the youth of southern Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. The money collected during the day (estimated at […]

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