CAMPANIA

Per condividere l’attesa

Il Consiglio regionale della Campania ha approvato, il 20 dicembre scorso, il piano ospedaliero regionale 2006-2008, nel quale sono stati inseriti due Centri di risveglio dal coma, il primo presso l’azienda ospedaliera Santobono-Pausillipon di Napoli, per il settore neo-natale, e il secondo presso l’azienda ospedaliera Rummo di Benevento, per gli altri casi. “Questo risultato premia […]

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FRONT PAGE

A new stage

With a clear majority (59%, albeit with a rate of participation of less than 50%) the Portuguese, on Sunday 11 February, said ‘yes’ to a liberalization of abortion up to the tenth week of pregnancy. The result is not unexpected, bearing in mind the opinion polls published a few days before the referendum, though the […]

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CHRISTIAN ROOTS

With words of unity

It is a widespread opinion that St. Benedict of Norcia is the “Western” patron of the continent and Saints Cyril and Methodius are the “Eastern” patrons. It is very probable that in the Scandinavian countries people speak of St. Bridget of Sweden as the “Northern” patron.In the collective consciousness, it is quite normal to link […]

di Victor Khroul Spokesman of the Russian Bishops' Conference

Bulgaria: let’s not forget the nurses in Libya

Expressions of solidarity with the five women nurses and the Palestinian doctor condemned to death by a Libyan court and held in prison for eight years in the North African country were held throughout Bulgaria on 9 February. Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Armenians and Jews prayed together for the first time to ask for the […]

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France: religious leaders against gay marriage

Homosexual marriage “is not a gift to make to the next generations”, urged the Christian, Jewish and Moslem leaders of Lyon in a joint statement signed in recent days. The religious representatives “are deeply concerned by the current fragility” of the family because “adults already have difficulties enough in helping the young to build their […]

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Italy: Europe and pilgrims

The 15th national conference of the pastoral theology of pilgrimage held by the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, the Roman Pilgrimage Society (ORP – www.orpnet.org), which ended in Rome, 14 February is dedicated to the great pilgrimage routes of Europe. “If a European family is recognisable, in spite of wars and divisions, this is also due to […]

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ECUMENISM

So that Europe grows

The meeting that opens tomorrow, 15 January, in the city of Martin Luther, at Wittenberg, in Germany (until Sunday 18) represents the Third Stage leading to the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3) due to be held in Sibiu (Romania) in September this year, in a process planned by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of […]

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GERMANY

The Koran and language

In the January edition of the Herder-Korrespondenz, HANSJÖRG SCHMID , delegate for Christian-Islamic dialogue at the academy of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, sums up the role of Islamic leaders, the imams, in Germany today: Having become the object of suspicions and mistrust, they are now required as guides for integration. Over the last few years […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Citizens at the centre

The European Parliament (EP), apart from sharing legislative power with the other institutions of the EU, monitors the Community budget, expresses its view on the composition of the Commission, controls the action of the Executive, and also represents – an essential role – the voice of citizens within the EU. In its debating chambers in […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Fight against paedophilia, “increased efforts”

All our efforts to curb the predators of children in cyberspace are insufficient, admits Terry Davis, general secretary of the Council of Europe, following the news of the dismantling by the Austrian police of a network of paedophiles operating on the Internet and composed of 2000 people in 77 countries. “Though such successes are not […]

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