Bosnia-Erzegovina: cattolici in calo” “

Da un milione che erano prima della guerra che ha devastato l’ex Jugoslavia i cattolici della Bosnia-Erzegovina sono diventati mezzo milione. A lanciare il grido d’allarme, raccolto dall’agenzia Apic è il francescano Mijo Dzolan, superiore della provincia di Bosnia e Srebrena. Da una “regione speciale dal punto di vista politico e religioso” la Bosnia “è […]

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Figli, speranza comune” “

“I figli – speranza per la vita” è il tema cui la Chiesa cattolica e quella evangelica tedesca hanno scelto di dedicare la Settimana per la vita del 2005, del 2006 e del 2007. Nell’arco di un triennio, i bambini saranno protagonisti della settimana per la vita, che si svolgerà quest’anno in tutta la Germania […]

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Ancora troppo divario” “

Agire sul piano giuridico e politico per raggiungere una vera uguaglianza di opportunità fra donne e uomini; combattere tutte le forme di violenza contro le donne, in particolare quella che avviene tra le mura domestiche. Il tutto senza rinunciare a mobilitazioni urgenti, sollecitate dagli avvenimenti di cronaca, fra cui quella per la liberazione di Florence […]

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International dailies and periodicals” “

Issues of domestic policy, and especially unemployment, are given extensive coverage in the German press. A comment in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Faz – 2/3) says: “ The Schröder government has come to terms – and in this it has nothing to envy its predecessors in opposition – with the scandal of the labour market, […]

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A mistaken idea” “” “

Modern Western societies, including that of Europe, are going through a crisis of values, a crisis of hope, that testifies to a profound change in the individual relations with life and with death. The risk is that we forget, or deny, that death forms part of life, that it forms part of the logic of […]

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Hungary: priests accused of spying, "an offensive against the Church"” “

Hungarian Catholic priests accused of having spied for the Communist regime were “victims of a cruel system whose founders and perpetuators could still be in power today. These politicians don’t have any moral justification for condemning those who had this role” and the atmosphere that has been created “serves only to attack the Church and […]

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Germany: against anti-semitism” “

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, and the President of the Central Council of Jews, Paul Spiegel, met in Mainz on 25 February. Both had expressed concern about the “reinforcement of extremist right-wing and anti-semitic tendencies in German society and in other European countries”. Lehmann and Spiegel declared “their relief about […]

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A sinister traffic” “

A denunciation of the sale of babies and the traffic of women and children from Bulgaria to countries of the European Union is contained in the last report of the European Council for Criminality. To tackle the problem, the Assembly of the Council of Europe decided in January to draw up a kind of European […]

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A sum of symbolic places” “

What is Europe? “A sum of symbolic places”: that’s the conclusion of a group of German, Polish, Slovene and Spanish academics during an international day on “Europe and its Symbols”, promoted by the Jean Monnet chair of the university of Navarre and held at Navarre (Spain) in recent days. We spoke about the meeting with […]

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Difficult days” “

The controversy aroused by the ordination of a gay bishop in the USA and the blessing of homosexual “marriages” in Canada is still bitter and causing great suffering within the Anglican Communion. At the end of an emergency meeting held in Northern Ireland from 20 to 25 February, the more traditionalist bishops asked their colleagues […]

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