Poland: an ecumenical centre at Krakow” “

An ecumenical centre dedicated to the memory of John Paul II is to be built in Krakow. The city’s new archbishop, Stanislaw Dziwisz, announced it during Sunday mass, broadcast live by Polish state television. According to the country’s media, the project envisages the creation – on a large building site covering several hectares – of […]

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WITNESSES " "

For Europe” “

Robert Schuman has disembarked in Eastern Europe; he is beginning to make proselytes in the countries of new accession and in those still waiting outside the doors of the EU. His writings are contributing to the growth of the “European sensibility” and his book “Pour l’Europe”, published in the year of his death, 1963, has […]

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HUMAN RIGHTS " "

Emmaus Europa” “

Each year millions of people in the world end up in the hands of criminal racketeers, who kidnap them and sell them into various forms of slavery. In Europe the trafficking of human beings “has assumed alarming proportions” and especially involves women and children, but also men who are subjected to exploitation in work. The […]

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Caritas Austria” “

“Care in the hospices is a human right”, declared Franz Küberl, President of Caritas Austria, on the occasion of World Hospice Day, celebrated on 8 October. Referring to the situation of his country, in which care for the terminally ill in hospices is acquiring ever greater importance, Küberl said that “Austria is on the right […]

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Jesuit Refugee Service” “

“Due to the growth of refugees and displaced people, the JRS (Jesuit Refugee Service) has developed strategies to serve the most forgotten, in all those places ignored by governments, NGOs and the mass media. While remaining faithful to its original vision, in the process of time the JRS has seen the emergence of an ever-more […]

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Plan to boost investments in research” “

The backwardness of Europe in comparison with the USA in terms of investments for innovation is considerable and the concrete results of this lack of investment are evident in various fields, beginning with the economy. At the same time, the new “global competitors”, such as China and India, are increasing resources in this direction. The […]

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Poverty of women and protection of rights in the EU ” “

“The poverty and social exclusion to which many women are subjected in Europe today cannot be grasped in their gravity only in economic terms, on the basis of figures”, but need to be “evaluated in terms of human rights”, says Anna Zàborskà, Slovak MEP. Addressing the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday 12 October, she […]

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PRIMA PAGINA" "

I pensieri dell’Europa” “

Si concluderà domenica 23 ottobre l’XI Assemblea generale ordinaria del Sinodo dei vescovi in corso in Vaticano su “L’Eucaristia: fonte e culmine della vita e della missione della Chiesa”. Qui di seguito alcuni passaggi degli interventi dei padri sinodali europei e alcuni spunti emersi dalla discussione nei circoli minori. SENSO DEL SACRO. “Oggi i valori […]

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GIOVANNI PAOLO II " "

Mi è sempre vicino ” “

Il 16 ottobre del 1978, il card. Karol Wojtyla diventò Papa e da quel giorno Giovanni Paolo II, per oltre 26 anni, ha guidato la Chiesa. Tra i suoi più stretti collaboratori c’era anche il card. Joseph Ratzinger che Giovanni Paolo II chiamò dalla diocesi di Monaco di cui era vescovo, per guidare la Congregazione […]

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ECUMENISMO" "

Russia: il card. Barbarin a Mosca” “

Su invito del metropolita Kirill di Smolensk e Kaliningrad, il card. Philippe Barbarin, arcivescovo di Lione, sta svolgendo una visita in Russia dal 15 al 19 ottobre. L’arcivescovo è accompagnato da Régine Maire, delegata della Commissione episcopale francese per l’ecumenismo. Secondo quanto si apprende dalla diocesi di Lione, l’arcivescovo ha trascorso la giornata del 16 […]

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