Rapporto sull’occupazione” “

La Commissione esecutiva ha presentato nei giorni scorsi a Bruxelles il nuovo Rapporto sui progressi compiuti verso il miglioramento quantitativo e qualitativo dell’occupazione in Europa. Malgrado la conferma della tendenza a un aumento della creazione dei posti di lavoro – accompagnata a una timida diminuzione del tasso di disoccupazione nell’Ue a 25 – molto resta […]

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Anno europeo dei disabili: un bilancio” “

Cinquecento delegati di tutta Europa e una fitta agenda di lavoro. È quanto prevede la Conferenza di chiusura dell’Anno europeo delle persone con disabilità che si svolge dal 5 al 7 dicembre, a Roma, al complesso San Giovanni Addolorata. L’incontro si propone di tracciare un bilancio delle iniziative svoltesi durante il 2003 e proverà a […]

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Quotidiani e periodici” “

In un mondo “unipolare”, è urgente “definire un nuovo ruolo per le Nazioni Unite”. È quanto scrive Kofi Annan, in un editoriale pubblicato dall’ Herald Tribune (4/12) sulla situazione internazionale. Secondo il segretario generale dell’Onu, “siamo giunti ad un momento decisivo nella storia. La grande minaccia dello scontro nucleare tra due superpotenze rivali è ormai […]

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FRONT PAGE" "

With the words of the young” “” “

Preparations are now in full swing for the new World Youth Day to be held in Germany (Cologne, 16-21 August 2005). We publish a statement by Matthias Kopp, spokesman of WYD 2005: a reflection that is in part concerned, but certainly not pessimistic, and that takes as its starting point the German situation and is […]

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Warning to the European Parliament” “” “

On 19 November the European Parliament (EP) approved a recommendation in favour of EU funding of research projects that entail the use of human embryos and human embryonal stem cells. The proposal, adopted with 291 votes in favour, 235 against and 12 abstentions, removes the condition fixed by the Commission that only embryos created after […]

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EUROPEAN CHURCHES" "

Spain: no justification for terrorism” “

“There is no cause, either national or international, that may justify terrorist actions”. So declares Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, in a letter sent to the vicar general of the military archdiocese of Spain to express the bishops’ grief for the death of 7 members of the Spanish secret services […]

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Serbia: history and "breath" of Catholics” “

The 1700th anniversary of the imperial Edict of Milan (in 313) will be celebrated at Nis (Serbia), the city in which the emperor Constantine was born, in 2013. The Edict recognized the free and full citizenship of the Catholic religion over the whole of the territory of the Roman Empire, both East and West. This […]

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Albania: in dialogue "with" Mother Teresa” “

“The beatification of Mother Teresa on 19 October has not only given impetus to the Catholic presence in the country, but has also favoured a growth of knowledge of and dialogue with the Orthodox and Moslem faiths”: so said Archbishop Angelo Massafra of Scutari, president of the Albanian Episcopal Conference. “On 16 and 17 November […]

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TURKEY" "

A "common" patron saint” “” “

On 29 November, a delegation sent by John Paul II arrived in Istanbul to associate itself with the feast of St. Andrew, brother of St. Peter and “first called”, patron of the ecumenical Patriarchate. The delegation of the Holy See reciprocates that sent by the ecumenical Patriarchate to Rome, for the feast of the apostles […]

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Greece: Othodox Church rejects research on embryos” “

“Firm opposition” to the proposal to grant EU funds to research on human embryos, voted by the European Parliament on 19 November, was expressed by the Holy Synod of Greece on the eve of the Council of Ministers, which met in Brussels on 27 November to decide whether or not to ratify the proposal. “The […]

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