adoption" "

How can make a choice?” “

“Throughout the world there are millions of children who have no family and survive in orphanages: they are nobody’s children”. The “child abandonment” emergency was underlined at the recent international conference held at Bellaria (Italy) by AIBI (Friends of Children Association), also through eyewitness testimonies from various European countries, many in Eastern Europe, in particular […]

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September 2004″ “

We present the main events involving the Catholic Church and the other European Christian Churches in September. 2 Start of the new school year in France, overshadowed by the implementation of the law finally approved in March this year that prohibits the ostentatious display of religious symbols in public places: Islamic headscarf, large crosses, kippahs […]

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culture" "

Common roots” “

“The Christian roots, which our “European weeks” have helped to document and make known, are beyond question: the problem of their recognition is in fact “political”, not historical”. That is the clear and determined way in which Msgr. Giuseppe Colombo , chairman of the standing Committee of the Paul VI Ambrosian Foundation in Milan, expresses […]

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european Union" "

Trustful but critical” “

European citizens have trust in the EU institutions, but still don’t know the content of the new Constitution. They have altogether a positive image of the Union, but denounce its irrelevance on the world stage. These are some of the findings that emerge from two recent surveys by Eurobarometer, the EU’s own polling agency, conducted […]

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Population: it’s growing thanks to immigrants” “

Europe is a “demographic power”. The 25-member Union now has a population of 456 million citizens, outstripping that of the USA (291 million) and Japan (127 million), but very far from that of the People’s Republic of China (1,300,000,000) and India (roughly a billion). This is the demographic situation registered by Eurostat and updated on […]

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Committee of the Regions, "open days" in Brussels ” “

The Committee of the Regions is opening its doors from 27 to 30 September. The EU advisory institution, based in Brussels, was established by the Treaty of Maastricht and “baptized” ten years ago. To mark its anniversary it is promoting a week of meetings, conferences and debates “to re-launch the centrality of regional policies as […]

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Council of Europe: new secretary” “

The Englishman Terry Davis, aged 66, married and the father of two children, assumed the post of general Secretary of the Council of Europe on 1st September. Elected by the parliamentary Assembly meeting in Strasbourg in June this year, Davis will serve for a five-year term, and perform an important executive and ceremonial role. He […]

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prima pagina" "

Una tragedia europea” “

In Europa sono tante le voci commosse e di condanna del massacro nella scuola di Beslan, in Ossezia del Nord, che ha provocato 335 morti, di cui 156 bambini. Restano da identificare i corpi di oltre 100 persone, negli ospedali rimangono 565 feriti, oltre la metà sono piccoli alunni. Anche le istituzioni europee – Parlamento, […]

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santiago de compostela" "

Il primo valore” “

Seguendo le orme degli antichi pellegrini quasi ventimila ragazzi sono giunti a Santiago de Compostela per vivere, dal cinque all’otto agosto, le giornate finali del Pellegrinaggio europeo dei giovani, indetto in occasione dell’anno santo Compostelano. “Santiago è la casa comune dove anticipiamo questa nuova Europa, il cui primo valore è quello della vita”. Ha detto […]

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adozione" "

Ma come si fa a scegliere?” “

“Nel mondo ci sono milioni di bambini che non hanno una famiglia e sopravvivono negli istituti: non sono figli di nessuno”. L’emergenza “abbandono minorile” è risuonata al recente convegno internazionale promosso a Bellaria (Rimini-Italia) dall’Aibi (associazione Amici dei Bambini) anche attraverso alcune testimonianze da diversi Paesi europei, molti dell’Europa dell’Est, in particolare Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, […]

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