Statement of H.E. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for the Holy See's Relations with States, at the High Level Segment of the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council, delivered today Tuesday 26 February 2013 in Geneva.

Excess is a common feature of the negative part of today's society (ecological destruction, accumulation of wealth). It is the result of social desease, individual (eg, toxicomania) and collective (eg, euphoria or panic in the market places).

Je souhaite partager mon album "Pax Romana-Study session-Wien 2012" sur Flickr avec vous. Bonne visite !

I wish to share my album " Pax Romana-Study session-Wien 2012 " on Flickr with you. Good visit!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13183621@N02/sets/72157632755959497/

The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations holding participatory status with the Council of Europe, comprising almost 400 INGOs, strongly condemns the assassination of Chokri Belaid, as a despicable political crime......

This tribune is based on Pascal Lamy's speech, President of Honour of Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute and General Director of the World Trade Organisation, during the 5th edition of the World Policy Conference organised in Cannes (France) on 8 december 2012 on an IFRI initiative. He reviews achievements and difficulties of the global governance and suggests avenues for progress.

We welcome Rio+20 Conference outcome document The future we want to set up UN Sustainable Development Goals as the continuation of Millennium Development Goals (MDG). We also appreciate the fact that this Conference has strengthened the role and responsibility of UNEP in environmental issues. We urge UNEP to advocate for a sound environment to be officially recognized as a human right

At the early beginning of this new year, find the news of the Council of Europe on: http://hub.coe.int/en/

The aim of this article is to look back at some of the history of Pax Romana and its links with the Newman Association; The whole article can be downloaded here.

The new Evangelization is confronted with modern culture and its new vision of Man and the World. It means that the Church has to rephrase differently its universal discourse, external to the different cultures it addresses, so it can force itself upon all men. It should admit that this discourse is part and parcel of a history, a specific proposition of the Judeo-Christian heritage, of the Greeks and of the age of Enlightenment in Western Europe.

                 In order to emerge from the present financial and economic crisis, we need people, groups and institutions which will promote life by fostering human creativity, in order to draw from the crisis itself an opportunity for discernment and for a new economic model. (…) Concretely, in economic activity, peacemakers are those who establish bonds of fairness and reciprocity with their colleagues, workers, clients and consumers. They engage in economic activity for the sake of the common good and they experience this commitment as something transcending their self-interest.