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La distanza di un voto” “” “

Con 280 voti a favore, 240 contrari e 28 astensioni il Parlamento europeo ha adottato lo scorso 3 luglio la risoluzione “sui diritti sessuali e riproduttivi” presentata dalla socialista belga Anne Van Lancker. In particolare all’art. 12 il documento afferma che “al fine di salvaguardare la salute e i diritti riproduttivi femminili l’aborto deve essere […]

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The Churches ask to be given greater heed” “

“The European Union must be a community of values”, declared the representative of the KEK (Conference of the European Churches), Keith Jenkins , on intervening in the plenary session of the Convention for the future of Europe, dedicated to listening to civil society, on 25 June. The values on which the EU needs to founded, […]

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Religious freedom, problems in Eastern Europe” “

“A world survey of the exercise of religious freedom”: that is what is offered by the latest Report on religious freedom in the world, published by “Aid to the suffering Church”. The Report, now appearing in its fourth annual edition, provides a survey of the various restrictions or legal curbs placed on the practising and […]

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Notes from Seville” “

The Summit of EU heads of state and of government, concluding Spain’s six months’ Presidency of the EU, was held in Seville on 21 and 22 June. Denmark is due to take over the revolving Presidency on 1st July. Below we give a brief résumé of the main decisions taken on the questions of asylum […]

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Immigration, legality ” “and development

The future common policy of asylum and immigration was approved in broad outline by the European Council in Seville. Steering a middle course between the hard-line policy of the “mailed fist” and the more lenient policy of accommodation, an “intermediate line” was approved. So no punitive sanctions, but the possibility of reviewing aid and accords […]

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Germany" "

Human life, a damaging event?” “

Can the birth a child be a damaging event, as a result of which the parents have a right to claim compensation? That’s what people are asking in Germany after the sentence of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) in Karlsruhe which on 18 June sentenced a gynaecologist to provide for the maintenance of […]

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Universities and Europe" "

Memory and culture” “

“In the process leading to a new institutional system now underway, Europe cannot ignore her Christian heritage”. That’s what John Paul II writes in the message he sent to the participants in the Conference “Towards a European Constitution?”, held in Rome in recent days. The conference was organized by the Office for university pastoral care […]

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Universities of Milan and Rome ” “

“One of the most important contributions that the universities can make to the construction of a European identity is the formation of a ruling class; this has always been a priority objective for the Catholic Universities – I think especially of the university founded by Agostino Gemelli. The Catholic University of Milan was founded precisely […]

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University of Lvov (Ukraine)” “

Safeguarding the presence of the religious minorities, and doing so in such a way that “situations of tension or conflict with the majority religious confessions are not created”: that is the hope for the future European treaty expressed by Pe tro Stetciuk, vice-rector of the national University of Lvov (Ukraine).The fear is that other ‘walls’, […]

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University of Lisbon” “

A European Constitution would be “a step forward” in the construction of a “common home” in our continent, but it’s an objective that “needs to be reached gradually, without claiming a totally new constitutional text, detached from the history of the European Treaties”. That’s the opinion of Manuel Braga da Cruz, rector of the Catholic […]

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