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Bisogno di comprensione” “

“Comprensione, collaborazione e solidarietà”: è quanto chiede in questo momento l’Africa all’Europa secondo il cardinale Francis Arinze , nigeriano, prefetto della Congregazione per il culto divino e la disciplina dei sacramenti, che interviene in vista dell’incontro del 27 e 28 febbraio a Lisbona organizzato dalla Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della comunità europea), in collaborazione con […]

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pensieri" "

Un’identità "sinfonica"” “

“Una Charta per l’Europa”: questo il titolo dell’ultimo “Nuntium”, rivista quadrimestrale della Pontificia Università Lateranense. Sono raccolti, come nel precedente numero, contributi di rappresentanti delle Chiese europee, della Commissione e del Parlamento europeo, delle parti sociali, del Centro europeo per le risorse umane. Proponiamo di seguito stralci di tre interventi. Costruttori della nuova Europa dello […]

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editoriale" "

Con serenità e lungimiranza” “

Nel cruciale dibattito sulla guerra all’Iraq manca il soggetto europeo. E se ne avverte molto la mancanza. La questione è ancora aperta, e questo dato si intreccia con il cammino della Convenzione, che proprio in questi giorni, di fronte ad eventi che appaiono cruciali per ridisegnare il quadro delle relazioni internazionali nel nuovo secolo, entra […]

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Preventing war” “

Satellite photographs, radio intercepts and drawings were not enough to convince the UN Security Council to decide on a military offensive against the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. What were supposed to be the incontrovertible proofs of Saddam’s failure to disarm, presented by Colin Powell, US Secretary of State on 5 September, instead divided the […]

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A leading role” “

Intensive and extensive diplomatic interventions with heads of government and of state to seek to avert an armed conflict in Iraq are being conducted by the representatives of the various Christian Churches in their respective countries at the present time. On the initiative of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a meeting of the Christian […]

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The Lutherans of Sweden appeal for the Middle East” “

The archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, Karl Gustav Hammar, has invited his fellow-citizens to boycott products coming from Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory. The aim of this action, he explains, is to put pressure on Israel to dismantle these colonies that are, in his view, one of the main obstacles to the achievement […]

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EU-Regions" "

How to be present?” “

The more active participation of the European Regions and local authorities in the EU decision-making process is one the issues concerning the future institutional system of an enlarged Europe. The ‘Napolitano Report’. The European Parliament recently approved Giorgio Napolitano’s Report on the “role of the regional and local authorities in European construction”, which ideally completes […]

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The reasons of the Regions ” “

The plenary session of the Convention on the future of Europe ends on 7 February. The “regional and local dimension in Europe” was discussed at the opening of the session. Urged by the regional associations and the Committee of the Regions, the debate tackled the problem of what role should be assigned to the local […]

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Africa - Europe" "

Meeting together in Lisbon” “

On 27 and 28 February Comece (Commission of the Episcopates of the European Community) in collaboration with the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar ( Sceam) will hold a colloquium in Lisbon with the title “Africa and the European Union: partners in solidarity”. The participants will include some 50 bishops from the […]

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Problems, commitments, hopes” “

The annual meeting of the joint Committee of the Conferences of European Churches (KEK) and the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE) was held at Bucharest, in Romania, from 30 January to 2 February 2003. The meeting, the first to be held in an Orthodox country for several years, discussed, among other things, […]

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