026 - Nativity: yes or no?

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In this pre-Christmas period in some schools souls are warming up on the theme: “Nativity: yes or no?” with the excuse of respect for non-Christians, to “not offend” the new immigrants in Italy.

It should be noted that non-Christians have always been present in the schools but the problem only arose with the arrival of Muslims. Often those who pose the problem are not the Muslims themselves but precisely certain teachers, either to set trends or because they delude themselves into favouring integration by penalizing everything that is part of the Christian tradition. In the name of respect for differences and the protection of minorities, they renounce making the Nativity in the classroom on Christmas, they choose no poems or strictly non-religious songs for the Christmas play, and they ask to remove the crucifix from the walls of schools and hospitals.

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046 - EUROPE, ARAB WORLD AND CULTURE

Vatican – 2013

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Culture is an essential component to improve the synergy between production factors and decision-making powers; it acts as a bridge between the human resources of a company, especially if it is multinational operating on two continents or at planetary level. North Africa and the Middle East represent a market of over three hundred million inhabitants just a few hours away from Italy but which receives little investment attention outside the energy field. It is necessary to develop a strategy to favour the expansion of our medium enterprise towards these markets with a profitable return for the actors in terms of development of the exchange area, of the African society in this case Arab society, and of return on investment.

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047 - MARE NOSTRUM AND IMMIGRATION

ALDAI – 29/10 – 2014

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We are honoured to have saved thousands of lives on the run from the southern shore of the Mediterranean. It reminds us that between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries millions of Europeans migrated to Africa where they settled, contributing substantially to the economic and cultural development of African countries but without having taken root in the social fabric they found themselves expelled, forced to return to their countries of origin. After the Second World War the African countries started a strong campaign of demographic development with the result over fifty years of tripling the number of their inhabitants; but there was also a growing impoverishment because demographic development was not accompanied by adequate economic growth. In the same period Europe has grown economically with an older population that is demographically stable, creating a gap that young Africans are trying to bridge; just think that Egypt’s GDP does not exceed that of the province of Milan alone.

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049 - UNITED MEDITERRANEAN

ROTARY – 2014
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A United Mediterranean for an economic union with or without a union of hearts? It is necessary to obtain the accession of the coastal peoples; to create a bridge that unites peoples who are very different from each other in terms of religious beliefs, the laws of the states and their constitutions. Unlike the European citizen, and in particular the Italian, it should be remembered that the Arab citizen, both Christian and Muslim, has an identity in- timately linked to his religious belief and his community even before the state he belongs to.

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