Inghilterra: neocattolici in calo ma non in Galles

Il numero complessivo di persone ricevute nella Chiesa cattolica del Regno Unito la scorsa Pasqua è calato rispetto allo scorso anno, benché alcune diocesi nel Galles e nel sud di Inghilterra siano aumentati in modo drastico i neocattolici. Lo riferisce il settimanale cattolico “The Tablet” che ha compilato una statistica degli “eletti”, gli aspiranti cattolici […]

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Serbia: condanna dei paramilitari per Srebrenica

La condanna dei paramilitari serbi “è un fatto dovuto, ed è il minimo per la gravità delle azioni compiute”. Così don Vladislav Varga, responsabile della Caritas di Serbia-Montenegro, ha commentato al Sir la sentenza emessa nei giorni scorsi dal Tribunale per i crimini di guerra della Serbia nei confronti di quattro membri dell’unità speciale “Scorpioni”, […]

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Repubblica Ceca: asta on line per il santo patrono

Un’asta su Internet per finanziare il restauro della statua di San Paolo, presente nella cattedrale di Brno: è l’iniziativa promossa dall’artista Stanislav Sedlacek, che ha messo all’asta il 12 aprile, nel sito web www.idnes.cz, un proprio dipinto per trovare i fondi per restaurare la statua che rappresenta uno dei due santi patroni della Cattedrale. L’opera […]

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Example, a utopia?

Fifty years after the signing of the Treaties of Rome, it is still quite normal to present Europe as an economic giant and a political dwarf, especially at the level of international policy. It is true that the failure of the draft Constitutional Treaty, the considerable differences in the way the various countries of the […]

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Germany: criticism of Ministry of the Family

In a communiqué issued in Berlin on 10 April, the Federation of Catholic Families (Familienbund der Katholiken) has criticised the figures published by the Federal Ministry for the Family on allocations in favour of the family, which according to the information provided by the ministry would amount to 184 billion euros per year. “This figure […]

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Italy: CEI President subjected to intimidation

“Monsignor Giuseppe Betori, general secretary of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), wishes to express his sympathy and solidarity with the President of the CEI, Archbishop of Genoa, at a time when he is being subjected to intimidatory remarks”. So begins the press release issued on the evening of 9 April by the Office of the […]

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Portugal: abortion law, the disappointment of the life federation

On 10 April, the president of the Portugal Republic issued the new law about abortion decriminalization, approved by the Parliament last 8 March. Aníbal Cavaco Silva accompanied the decision with a message to the Assembly of the Republic, in which he identified a series of aspects deserving further regulatory attention, and he exhorted the members […]

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BELGIUM

Discovering the many “yes”

“Cannot you read the signs of the time?”: this is the title, taken from a verse of Matthew’s Gospel (16: 3), that was chosen by the bishops of Belgium for the booklet published on the eve of Easter, with the objective – its introduction explains – “not of spreading resounding declarations, but of pointing out […]

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ECUMENISM

CEC: de Clermont, the person at the centre of the EU

“I won’t campaign either in favour or against the insertion of the ‘Christian roots’ in the European Constitutional Treaty. Basically it’s not this that really matters. Instead I will campaign to ensure that the churches have a precise role, on a par with that of other associations of European civil society, in contributing to the […]

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FPF: Claude Baty is its 10th President

“In today’s postmodern society Christians must be able to work together, simply in order to be witnesses together of Christ”, declared Pastor Claude Baty, of the Union of the Free Evangelical Churches, in his acceptance speech following his election as tenth President of the FPF (Protestant Federation of France). Baty was elected to head the […]

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