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Benedict XVI Documentary to Air in Russia

Concludes With Message From Pope to Nation

KOENIGSTEIN, Germany, APRIL 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Russia will mark Benedict XVI's 81st birthday Wednesday by offering a chance to learn about the life of the German Pontiff, and to hear a televised greeting from him to the Russian people.

A state television channel will broadcast a documentary sponsored by the organization Aid to the Church in Need. The documentary concludes with a message from the Holy Father to Alexy II, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christians, and all Russians. The Pope will appeal for dialogue among all Christians. Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, the Pontiff's older brother, is one of those interviewed in the documentary.

Peter Humeniuk, the aid organization's Russia expert, affirmed that both in Rome and in Moscow there is an awareness that the "film and the papal message are a beautiful symbol of the process of rapprochement between the two Churches."

Humeniuk, who was in charge of the documentary, added, "During my journeys throughout Russia I come across many people who express a desire for objective information about the Pope and the Catholic Church. I hope that the film about Benedict XVI will help to meet this need."

He said it is "an occasion of great joy and a historic event" to have the Holy Father personally address the Russian people.

All in all, Humeniuk contended, the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church is progressing.

(ZENIT.org)

Italy seen by New York Times

An interesting article on the New York Times describes the actual Italy quite well: depressed, angry, afraid of the future.

It's interesting to see the related photoset too.

In Italy the blogger Beppe Grillo wrote about it (in italian). It's also spoken in the blog Stelle a strisce (italian blog of a woman living in NY)

ROME - the Council of Ministers has given the ok definitive to the certifyd e-mail. The provision door hour Italy between the first countries to the world to giving complete validita' legal to documents transmitted via email that they thus become like one registered letter.

It asserts the minister for the Innovation and the technologies, Tired Lucio, announcing the definitive approval from part of the government of the provision that ' ' disciplines I not only use it of the certifyd e-mail in the relationships that city and enterprises entertains with Public Administration, but also in the relations between offices publics, like also between privati' '.

The decree, remembers the Ministry in a famous one, had been fired from the 25 Council of Ministers past March and, after to be passed to I winnow of the Unified Conference, Council of State, Parliament, Ministries and Commission ue, it has completed the iter legislative and with the next publication in Official Gazette it becomes operating to all the effects.

' ' the provision e' an action of modernita' and we are between the first Countries to the world to have launched a similar disposition, to demonstration of the engagement of this Government in carrying ahead the process of modernization of the Paese' ', has said Tired. ' ' the e-mail certifyd e' one large innovation perche' piu' the always diffused email e': in every Italy day they come at least sent 400 million electronic messages (that is 146 billions the year), with the projection of beyond 500 million to the day in the 2005' ', has added to the minister specifying that ' ' the buyable on market and supplied service sara' from operating characterized and certificati' '.

The decree - the Ministry still finds - certifys the shipment and the reception: cio' it means, for the shipment, than the sender it receives from just the manager of mail one received that it constitutes legal test of the happened shipment of the message and eventual the attached documentation. In the same way, when the message reaches the adressee, its manager of mail sendes to the sender the receipt of happened (or lacked) delivery, with the indication of date and timetable, to prescind from the opening of the message.

With to the delivery receipt, moreover, the manager of the adressee puo' also to send to the sender the complete copy of the text of the message. Instituted E' - the official notice remembers finally - an official directory of the managers of certifyd e-mail near the National Center for Computer science in Public Administration, to which they are assigns to you to tasks of vigilance and control on the attivita' of the enrolled one.

Near every manager of e-mail it comes instituted a Log of the messages, the computer science registry of the relative operations to the transmissions carried out with certifyd e-mail. In such a way, in the case in which the sender smarrisca receipts, the computer science trace of the carried out operations, with the same legal value of receipts, sara' conserved for 30 months.

Finally the Tired minister has rendered famous one important novita' for the eventual presence of virus in the e-mail: he comes created a double filter from part of the managers (of the sender and the adressee) which are held to block to the shipment and the reception in case of presence of virus and signaling it to the sender.

(from: ANSA)