Scotland: Year of the Eucharist” “

“We want to begin our Year of the Eucharist by starting out from Guadalajara in Mexico where the International Eucharistic Congress (10-17 October) was held in recent days. It marks the opening of this special year, and we hope to hold our own Eucharistic Congress here in our own city next summer. My hope is […]

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Spain: 1 million signatures for religious education” “

Already over half a million signatures have been collected in Spain to defend religious education in schools, “but we want to reach the target of one million”, says José Luis Sánchez, education delegate of the National Platform that defends religion in schools. The new government plans to shift religious education outside school hours and exclude […]

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Croatia: assembly of bishops” “

The training of candidates for the priesthood was the central theme at the 29th plenary assembly of the Croatian Episcopal Conference. Chaired by the archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanic, and in the presence of the archbishop of Sarajevo Vinko Puljic and Bishop Ivan Penzes of Subotica, the assembly was held in the Croatian capital […]

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The star and the cross” “

Now that the search for a new area for the vigil and concluding celebration of WYD 2005 has been happily concluded – it has been found at Frechen, just 15 km from Cologne -, the work of the German organizers tirelessly continues, helped by numerous spontaneous initiatives in many parts of the world. In the […]

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On the side of citizens” “

He is the “guardian of good administration” at the EU level; he is on the side of citizens who are increasingly petitioning his office to have their own rights defended against the institutions of the Twenty-Five. The office of the European Ombudsman, who performs a valuable but hidden role, has been put under the spotlight […]

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Environment: the major polluters” “

Brussels is cracking down on European polluters. As part of so-called “operation transparency” being conducted by EPER – the European Polluting Emissions Register – the Commission has published a report that contains the details of the 73 known sites classified as most polluting in Europe. The data – relating to 2001 and coming from the […]

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Social responsibility of firms” “

Nine months and 65 days of information-gathering throughout the European Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Norway: that’s the programme of the awareness-raising campaign on the social responsibility of enterprises (SRE), organized by the Commission in collaboration with Eurochambres (the Union of European Chambers of Commerce) and UEAPME (the Union of small and medium businesses), and […]

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Economy: forecasts for 2005″ “

Low economic growth but containment of inflation: that is the gist of the report presented to the European Commission by the European Forecasting Network (EFN), a forecasting research group of which (among others) the universities of Cambridge, Halle and the Bocconi in Milan form part. The report – relating to the forecasts for 2005 and […]

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Terrorism: document of political action” “

The European Union is about o take another step in its campaign against international terrorism. The Council of EU Foreign Ministers, meeting in Luxembourg last week, announced the preparation of the first “document of political action for the response to terrorism”. The text – which will be presented to the Heads of State and of […]

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Alle radici della violenza” “” “

Gli rompono il braccio e lo fotografano. È capitato in Gran Bretagna, alla “Wetherby High School”, una scuola nello Yorkshire occidentale, dove una decina di quindicenni hanno circondato ed aggredito un undicenne e, dopo avergli rotto un braccio, hanno fotografato la scena con un cellulare per poi inviare l’immagine ai loro amici con la posta […]

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