Spain: ‘train’ for life” “

“Keeping alive the memory of the victims, sharing the suffering and celebrating hope”: these were the objectives of the “Train for Life” that pulled out of the station of Atocha on Sunday, 9 May. It was at Madrid’s Atocha station that 200 people were killed and 1000 injured in the most barbarous terrorist atrocity of […]

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Scotland: speaking of faith in the pub” “

A group of young Catholics has been meeting regularly in a pub in the centre of Glasgow over the last four years to speak about and share their faith. News of the pub meetings is carried in the May number of Flourish, the monthly of the archbishopric of Glasgow. “Each Monday in the month – […]

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Nolan Report, three years later” “

A greater awareness of the risk of abuses, and a structure that may prevent the errors of the past from being repeated: with the Nolan Report, which came into force in September 2001,the Catholic Church of England and Wales has changed for ever its approach to children. Today a layperson responsible for juveniles exists in […]

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Rehab and prevention” “

Beatings, electroshock, suffocation, immersion, sexual violence, solitary confinement, threats, humiliation and degradation: these are just some of the methods of physical and psychological torture inflicted on prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad by American military personnel, who now defend themselves: “orders from above – they say – We had been told to make […]

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Minimum common norms on asylum” “

The Council of Justice and Internal Affairs Ministers of the EU reached an agreement on asylum procedures last week. It gives the go-ahead, after three years of negotiation, to the Directive that introduces into EU and national law common regulations for the processing of asylum applications and the granting of refugee status. There are two […]

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"Asylum shopping"” “

Eurodac, the European data bank for the testing and control of fingerprints of asylum seekers and clandestine immigrants, in operation for just over a year, published a report on 5 May, according to which 17,287 people presented asylum applications simultaneously in more than one state of the Union in 2003. The phenomenon, known as “asylum […]

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Unemployment stable” “

Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union, has published data according to which the unemployment rate of the member countries of the single currency has remained stable at 8.8% in March, with no reduction over February (and with a slight increase over the same period of 2003). For the first time since the accession […]

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Irregularities in agricultural expenditure” “

For the second time in 2004, the European Commission has decided to recover from member countries huge sums allocated by the Agricultural Funds due to “inadequate controls and failure to conform to Community rules” by the competent national authorities. The sums that Brussels intends to claw back from nine member states amount to a total […]

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Something special” “

The regional Conference held by Caritas Europe is being held at Dubrovnik, in Croatia, from 11 to 15 May. Msgr. Aldo Giordano , general secretary of the CCEE, addressed the conference on its inaugural day. A new chapter in the history of europe. Msgr. Giordano pointed out the “particular interest” with which the Churches are […]

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A special moment” “

“A dream that has begun to come true”: that’s how Cardinal Walter Kasper , president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, defined the congress “Together to discover and share the riches” which brought together some 2000 representatives of 175 movements and communities of all Christian confessions (Catholic, Evangelic, Orthodox and Anglican) […]

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