refugees" "

Europe less welcoming?” “

“In the whole of Europe, the number of new asylum seekers has dropped by 18%. In the 14 countries of the European Union, their number has fallen by 15%”. In the first quarter of this year, 92,700 asylum applications were presented in the 29 industrialized European countries, registering a percentage drop of 16% over the […]

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Beyond the confines” “

There were some 70,000 in the Almend park, near Bern, to attend the mass celebrated by the Pope on Sunday 6 June. A number that astonished the various commentators in the Swiss press. Coming from every canton, the young gathered round the Pope, and together with them there were also Italians, Poles, French, Germans, Spaniards… […]

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england" "

The value of loneliness” “

People get married later and with greater awareness, but more often they remain “single”, a highly respectable status, a vocation in no way inferior to marriage: so say the bishops of England and Wales. In its latest document of social doctrine entitled “Cherishing Life”, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has recognised the positive […]

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CCEE: episcopal secretaries meet in Belgrade ” “

While European citizens are busily renewing the members of the European Parliament, the general secretaries of the European Episcopal Conferences are meeting in Belgrade (10-13 June). The main issues to be discussed are European unification, the role of Christianity and the Churches in present-day Europe and the process of drafting and approving the European constitutional […]

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Portugal, remembering de Sousa Mendes” “

The Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes will be commemorated on the fiftieth anniversary of his death on 17 June by a series of commemorative masses in Portugal, New York, Rome, the Vatican and in other churches and synagogues throughout the world, and by the award of an international prize to Cardinal Raffaele Renato Martino […]

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France: a Europe for peace” “

The massacre occurred at eight o’clock in the morning on 10 June 1944. The Nazis entered the little town of Oradour-sur Glane and, as they passed through, killed in cold blood 642 civilians, including 246 women and 207 children. Sixty years after that tragic day, the town commemorated the massacre with a series of events: […]

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ecumenism" "

"Meeting with others"” “

“The humanism of Bonhoeffer was profoundly rooted in the life, death and resurrection of Christ”, but, at the same time, was “forged by the meeting with others, and shaped by suffering and by the struggle for truth and justice. He affirmed, in spite of everything, “the goodness of man against perversion, hope against despair and […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

The summit of the G8 and the new UN resolution on Iraq monopolise the attention of the international press. “Iraq, victory of Bush at the UNO”, is the front-page headline in Le Monde (10/6), over an article pointing out that “the UN Security Council unanimously adopted, on 8 June, Resolution 1546 that organises the passage […]

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Prova di responsabilità” “

Sono stati Gran Bretagna e Paesi Bassi, i primi due Paesi ad aprire il 10 giugno, la storica tornata elettorale, la prima dopo l’allargamento del 1 maggio scorso, per il rinnovo del Parlamento europeo. Seguiranno a ruota, tra l’11 ed il 13, tutti gli altri. Un appuntamento molto atteso che vede i Dieci nuovi Stati […]

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elezioni europee" "

Un voto per crescere” “” “I

“Stiamo confrontandoci con una realtà che crea inaspettate opportunità per la nostra nazione, ma che allo stesso tempo prefigura nuove sfide e timori. Molti temono che perderemo la nostra identità e sovranità. L’identità nazionale è preservata ed espressa attraverso la nostra cultura, che include i valori morali e religiosi. Se l’Europa vuole davvero essere una […]

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