France: criticise religions, but don’t ridicule them

Three quarters of the French think it’s wrong to ridicule religions, their founders, their believers and their representatives. That’s the finding of an opinion poll published on www.pelerin.info, the website of the Christian weekly of the same name, which conducted the survey, posing to the interviewees (a sample of 1000 people over the age of […]

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HUNGARY

Speaking out loud

One of the major problems of the Hungarian Catholic media is the continuing reflection in the clergy – a leftover from Communist times – of a conviction that pastoral initiatives should be kept secret. This suggests just how strong was the influence then exerted by the Soviet regime on the Church. Apart from internal problems, […]

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TURKEY

Stronger identity

“To counter the strong nationalist pressures, Turkey must continue her course towards a democratic process that admits pluralism and recognises minorities. Only in this way can she show Europe that she’s ready to enter the Union”, says Monsignor LUIGI PADOVESE , expressing the Church’s thought on the Turkish political situation today. Apostolic Vicar for Anatolia […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The “miracle” of the 27

“The enlargement of the European Union” to 27 States, “together with the reunification of Germany, remain for me the miracle of this generation”, declared HANS -GERT POETTERING , who in January was elected President of the European Parliament until 2009. He addressed his programmatic speech to the deputies during the plenary session held in Strasbourg […]

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Safer Internet in the interest of younger children

This year’s Safer Internet Day, promoted by the European Network for Safer Internet (INSAFE) in collaboration with the European Commission, was held on 6 February. Events and campaigns were held in each member state to coincide with Safer Internet Day with the objective of “arousing the interest of parents and teachers in the technologies that […]

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Self-regulation for the media

A study of measures of co-regulation (i.e. when state regulation is accompanied by private sector regulation) in the field of the mass media was recently presented in Brussels. According to the Commission, the “traditional regulations have difficulty in keeping pace with the rapidity of technological, economic and social change and of the decentralization of information”. […]

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Lisbon Strategy (1)

The third Joint Parliamentary Assembly on the Lisbon Strategy, in the presence of members of the European Parliament and of national Parliaments, as well as representatives of the European Council and Commission, took place in Brussels last week. The Assembly – whose primary objective consists in the identification of suitable measures to accelerate the implementation […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Mostrare il volto

Con l’adesione della Bulgaria e della Romania il 1° gennaio di quest’anno, l’Unione Europea allargata a 27 Stati membri è passata da 456 a 493 milioni di cittadini. I cittadini dei Paesi interessati hanno festeggiato la loro entrata nell’Unione, vista come fonte di speranza, di promessa e di sicurezza per il futuro. Per quanto riguarda […]

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CCEE

Pensieri, esperienze, progetti

Collegialità fra le Conferenze episcopali d’Europa, cammino ecumenico, rapporti tra Chiesa e cultura e società europea: questi i principali ambiti di attività del Ccee (Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa) negli ultimi mesi. Nel dicembre 2006 si è svolto a San Gallo (Svizzera), il primo incontro della nuova presidenza Ccee per discutere il piano di lavoro […]

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Portogallo: un sussidio per la maternità

La piattaforma “Não Obrigada”, l’aggregazione laica di maggiore visibilità della recente campagna referendaria per il “no” all’aborto, auspica che il risultato di domenica scorsa porti lo Stato ad appoggiare in modo più deciso anche la maternità. In tal senso, uno dei rappresentanti del movimento, il medico João Paulo Malta ha proposto che “lo Stato conceda […]

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