Terre di migrazione

Divertimenti eccessivi. “Sono molteplici i problemi che affliggono l’Abruzzo e il Molise, benché siano in gran parte condivisi con le altre Regioni italiane”. Di questo è convinto mons. Carlo Ghidelli, arcivescovo di Lanciano-Ortona e presidente della Conferenza episcopale abruzzese molisana. Innanzitutto, “si registra una grande disoccupazione, soprattutto tra i giovani, per cui – sottolinea il […]

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Alla sede degli apostoli

Limina apostolorum sono, secondo un tradizionale linguaggio ecclesiastico, le “memorie degli apostoli” ossia i luoghi sacri di Roma, dove sono custoditi e venerati i sepolcri degli apostoli Pietro e Paolo, i Padri Santi per i quali Roma è il centro dell’unità cattolica e sede della Cattedra di Pietro, nella quale tutti i fedeli e, con […]

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Bishop Hilarion on the Pope’s visit to Istanbul

A hope that “Benedict XVI’s visit to Istanbul would further improve relations between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople” was expressed in recent days by Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European institutions. “Since it was the Churches of Rome and Constantinople that broke off communion in […]

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Metropolitan Kirill at Strasbourg

“Today the understanding and application of human rights bear the cultural hallmark of the West, a fact that is felt a great deal in the East, in Asia, Latin America and Africa”, remarked Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Department of External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, speaking in recent days […]

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ECUMENISM

England: the joint statement of Leeds

“We recognise the importance of working together to present a shared witness to our society, and acknowledge the importance of working with other denominations, and with those of other faiths to take forward the common good in society”, declares the joint statement of the Catholic Primate of England and Wales Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and the […]

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Greece: Christodolulos to visit Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI is to receive Metropolitan Christodoulos on 14 December. The Orthodox Church in Athens announced the forthcoming visit in recent days. It will be the Metropolitan’s first official visit to the Vatican. The statement put out by the Greek Orthodox Church explains that the invitation for the visit came from the Vatican at the […]

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Turkey: great hopes for dialogue

The meeting with Bartholomew I, “which raises hopes for ecumenical dialogue”, and that with the Islamic world in the person of Turkey’s President of Religious Affairs: these, according to Otmar Oehring, head of the human rights section at “Missio”, the German Pontifical Missionary Society, and an expert on Islam and Turkey, will be the two […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

People at the centre

With applause and sighs of relief the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg has given the go ahead to the controversial Services Directive, a provision that, at least in the Commission’s original intentions, was supposed to open this economic sector to free competition, favouring its development and the simultaneous creation of new jobs. During its session […]

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Internet present in one home out of two

In the European Union “over half of all homes are provided with access to the internet” and the figure is constantly growing: that’s the main finding of the Report on the use of the information and communication technologies published by Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Community, on 10 November. More precisely, at the […]

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Sedentary lifestyle and food, threats to health

Obesity, sedentariness, excessive and unhealthy diet: the health of Europeans is threatened by the superabundance of food and a sedentary lifestyle, reports a survey conducted by Eurobarometer, published in recent days and commented on by the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou. “The majority of Europeans consider themselves in a good state of […]

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