consiglio d'europa" "

Il passato non è un’arma ” “

Liberare la storia da pregiudizi e forzature nazionaliste, “perché il passato non sia più usato come un’arma”. È questo l’obiettivo che, sin dagli anni Cinquanta, ha spinto il Consiglio d’Europa a promuovere attività di ricerca, convegni, seminari di pedagogia rivolti soprattutto agli insegnanti dei Paesi membri. Dopo il crollo del muro di Berlino e con […]

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storia e cultura" "

Il mosaico delle parole ” “

Sono quasi 7mila le lingue parlate dagli oltre sei miliardi di abitanti del nostro pianeta; due, l’inglese e il cinese, costituiscono lo strumento di espressione di centinaia di milioni di persone, ma la maggior parte è parlata soltanto da poche migliaia di persone; in alcuni casi addirittura centinaia. In Europa sono 225 le lingue “indigene”, […]

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rassegna di idee" "

Vale la pena impegnarsi ” “

“Molti nuovi impegni” da affrontare “con generosità ed energia in un dialogo franco e cordiale”. Per il gesuita JEAN-YVES CALVEZ è quanto attendersi dal recente allargamento dell’Unione europea, “questione più di necessità che di scelta”. Dalle colonne del numero di settembre di “Études”, mensile di cultura contemporanea fondato dai gesuiti nel 1856, Calvez esprime apprezzamento […]

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International dailies” “

“The road of the apocalypse passes through Beslan” is the title of an article by André Glucksmann, published on the front page of Le Monde (16/9), in which the author comments on the tragic international situation following the massacre in North Ossetia. “Those who experience the end of the world don’t see it, those who […]

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front page" "

An exemplary forum” “

The word “terrorism”, declined in the 20 official languages, is undoubtedly the most recurrent in the EU’s institutional seats in recent times. There is no official meeting, no informal get-together, or working document, at which a worrying reference is not made to the “mortal fury”, to adopt the expression used by the president of the […]

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youth" "

In the "piazza" of the future” “

United Europe depends on the new generations. Some 70 youth representing the various countries of the Mediterranean area attended the Forum of Mediterranean youth, held at the John Paul II Centre in Loreto (Italy) from 1-13 September. The countries of the Mediterranean are so close to each other geographically, but at the same time so […]

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universities" "

A thousand priests and a million students” “

In contact with a “student population” amounting to one million people, universities may play “an essential and strategic role in the construction of the new Europe”, in a world “characterised by globalization, multiculturalisn and confrontation with the Islamic world and the sects”. This is the presupposition round which the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences […]

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england and wales" "

Life always has value” “

“It is deeply misguided to propose a law by which it would be legal for terminally ill people to be killed or assisted in suicide by those caring for them”; such a step “would fundamentally undermine the basis of law and medicine and undermine the duty of the state to care for vulnerable people”. In […]

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Lithuania: the "Baltic way"” “

A “memorable human chain” that testified to the presence of a “living community, united by the hope of obtaining freedom of conscience, human dignity and the spiritual and economic well-being of society”: that’s how the Lithuanian bishops recalled in recent days the peaceful anti-Soviet demonstration for freedom that mobilised some two million Estonians, Latvians and […]

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International conference of priests in Malta” “

“It’s a great honour for our country that the authority of the universal Church has chosen the Maltese islands, the islands of St. Paul, for a meeting that will bring together hundreds of priests from all over the world. But it’s not only an honour. It’s also a particularly challenging responsibility”. The point is made […]

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