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After the Castro’s interview with the Pope, what will be the future of Cuba?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 2 aprile 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

In the living room of the cardinal Roger Etchegaray’s house in Rome a Cuban Christ’s Nativity is exposed since more than 20 years. The Christ’s  Nativity is a present Fidel Castro made to him during one of their meeting, between the end of 80s and the beginning of 90s. Roger Etchegaray first met [...]

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World diplomacy. Benedict XVI’s effort

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 gennaio 2012 · Leave a Comment · In diplomacy

To get back to the solidity of International law, to abandon – or at least take it in less consideration – the fickleness of diplomacy. If there is a plan, this is the one of Benedict XVI. Since the beginning of his papacy, he gave his personal impact to the Vatican diplomacy. [...]

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Message for the World Day of Peace: what it is, what it would have been

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 19 dicembre 2011 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

There is the official Message for the World Day of Peace. And there is the message that could have been, and has not. There are Benedict XVI’s words – that in Benin  «blessed» the events that have produced the «Arab springtime» and independence in Southern Sudan; and there is a message that [...]

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Libya, what future for Christian community?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 24 ottobre 2011 · 2 Comments · In international affairs

After the fall of Mu’ammar Gaddafi, Christian missions in Tripoli campaigned for a massive movement of prayer in Libya. Because nobody know what will be of Christian community now that the new transition government – and then the constitution of the new State of Libya – will officially take the power. Many fears [...]

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Egypt, toward a new Exodus?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 17 ottobre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

Since March 2011, nearly 100,000 Christians have emigrated from Egypt. If the emigration of Christians continues at the present rate, it could reach 250,00 by the end of 2011. The data were delivered from the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization (EHRO), and it takes the most recent picture of what is [...]

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From Finland with love. Is Catholic thought going to be a minority to protect?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 luglio 2011 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

«Kyllä kansa tietää», «Yes the people know». This sentence has marked the history of Finnish politics. His author, Veikko Vennamo, was a talented orator. He shocked the Finnish political establishment by founding a populist party at the end of Sixties. It was called “Landsbygdspartiet” (the Party of the Countries) and it gained the [...]

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I.O.R., is something going to change?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 6 giugno 2011 · 1 Comment · In Vatican finances

Vatican State is still not in the “white list” of the virtous states for money laundering legislation. After the Monetary Convention of 17 December 2009 between Vatican City State and the European Union, and the new Vatican legislation for the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the financial and monetary sectors, Holy [...]

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Bite and devour. A story of false clericalism.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 30 maggio 2011 · 1 Comment · In church

«Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another. » [...]

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Undermining Holy See diplomacy. An impossible mission?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 maggio 2011 · 4 Comments · In Holy See

Would it be possible to eject the Holy See from the international organizations? This not such a new idea. In 2007, The Economist - English weekly which is widely read in government foreign offices – ended  an article about the Vatican diplomacy with this advice for the Holy See: «It could renounce its special [...]

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Spain, is it a kind of religious war bullettin?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 25 aprile 2011 · 1 Comment · In religious freedom

«A praise to God». That’s how Pope Benedict XVI defined the Sagrada Familia, which he consecrated the last November. Sagrada Familia remained under construction for about 128 years. Andoni Gaudì, a Catalan architect, was the genius who projected that monumental church. He died ran over by a streetcar, leaving his masterpiece unfinished.

Sagrada [...]

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