The Athens Declaration” “

“A regular dialogue between the European Union and the Christian Churches” and “a clear reference to the Christian roots of Europe in the draft Constitution”: that is what is urged by various leading exponents of the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Churches, who met in Athens in recent days. The ecumenical meeting was promoted by the […]

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Liturgy and mission in Europe” “

The ecumenical Centre in Wuppertal, Germany, welcomed some fifty delegates from the Churches of Germany, England, France, Switzerland and Italy in recent weeks for a joint reflection on “Mission and Celebration”, with particular reference to the actuality of liturgical practice. According to Kathy Galloway, of the Abbey of Iona (Scotland), the main problem concerns communication. […]

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EU social policies" "

"Good practices" and the new Ten ” “

“COMECE has repeatedly emphasized the importance of social policies and the Lisbon process that placed the promotion of social integration among the main issues of the global strategy of the European Union”, but believes it is also necessary to listen and give voice to the “regions, municipalities and volunteer service associations”. So said Stefen Lunte, […]

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EU in brief" "

Television without frontiers” “

The European Commission is holding an audition open to the public on 23-24-25 June 2003 to debate issues relating to Television without Frontiers (TwF). The European Council too is dealing with the matter, concentrating on three specific issues: access to events of major importance for society ; the protection of the general interest in the sector […]

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Sars: group of experts set up” “

An extraordinary session of the Council of EU Ministers for Health was held in Brussels in recent days to discuss the Sars emergency. In the four page document issued at the end of the meeting, the Council reports that it had examined the situation of the respiratory syndrome and proposed a series of measures to […]

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Education in the developing countries ” “

Solving the problem of education, or rather the absence of education, in the developing countries means tackling a variety of problems: that of regional conflicts, and also that of health, given the devastating effects that Aids is having on teaching staff. According to a recent survey, 82% of the 113 million children in the world […]

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Iraq-EU" "

From despair to hope?” “

According to the estimates of the UN High Commission for Refugees, at least 900,000 Iraqis have left their country over the last twenty years. In 2002 over 51,000 Iraqis made asylum applications. In Europe, the quarterly average of applications submitted by Iraqi citizens rose from 11,400 in 2001 to 12,000 in the first quarter of […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

“Al Qaeda guilty of the explosions in the Saudi capital”. that’s the banner headline dedicated by the Herald Tribune ( 14/5) to the kamikaze attack in a residential quarter of Ryad which caused scores of victims and injured of various nationalities, including many Americans, on the night between the 12 and 13 May. “The terrorists […]

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John Paul II" "

The thread that bears her name” “

Entrusting ourselves means abandoning ourselves. It presupposes a knowledge of the person by whom we let ourselves be led through the roads of life. It is a radical expropriation of ourselves that does not precipitate us into the void but into an embrace that supports, nourishes and reinvigorates. In all lives we may glimpse – […]

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Constitution" "

The actuality of Robert Schuman” “

On 9 May 1950, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed to Germany the creation of a community for the production of coal and steel, with a view to beginning a form of permanent economic and commercial cooperation able to ensure peace between the two historic enemies of the European continent. Within two years four […]

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