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CHIESE IN BREVE

Francia: mons. Simon su laicità e islam”Chiesa di Francia o Chiesa in Francia?”. Partendo da questo interrogativo mons. Hippolyte Simon, arcivescovo di Clermont e vicepresidente della Conferenza episcopale francese, interviene sul quotidiano cattolico “La Croix” del 14 marzo al dibattito annunciato dal presidente della Repubblica Nicolas Sarkozy sulla laicità e il rapporto tra religione e […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Germania: lettere pastorali per la QuaresimaIl dialogo sulle riforme della Chiesa è il tema principale delle lettere pastorali per la Quaresima dei vescovi tedeschi, lette domenica scorsa in tutte le diocesi del Paese alla vigilia dell’assemblea plenaria che si è aperta il 14 marzo a Paderborn. Mons. Robert Zollitsch, presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca, ha […]

CHIESE CRISTIANE

Venerdì 11 marzo, ore 14 e 46. La terra trema in Giappone al largo delle coste nord-orientali, nella regione di Tohoku. Dopo pochi minuti, le coste vengono devastate da un terribile tsunami che inghiotte tutto. Le scosse colpiscono anche la centrale nucleare di Fukushima che non regge all’impatto del sisma e dello tsunami. L’Europa guarda […]

EDITORIAL

When talking about nations as communities sharing the same destiny, it can be said that Europe’s centuries-long history engendered a community of interdependent and intertwined destinies. Vicinity, along with collective experiences, has led to the establishment of special relationships linking European populations, whether or not explicitly acknowledged. Also in those cases where coexistence has turned […]

EUROPEAN CHURCHES

“The images of the tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan have deeply shocked us all”, said Benedict XVI, after the Angelus on Sunday 13 March, referring to the dramatic situation with which Japan is faced at the present time. “I wish – he declared – to renew my spiritual closeness to the beloved populations […]

EUROPEAN UNION

For the President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso, in order to overcome the ongoing economic and financial crisis, Europe is called to be more united, coherent, inclusive and cooperative, as conveyed in his Lectio Magistralis, delivered in Rome on March 14 at the ‘Guido Carli’ Social Studies Faculty of LUISS University, upon […]

EUROPEAN UNION

“If conditions of peace and development are not created in the countries of North Africa, if we fail to give any hope to these young people, we will increase the risks for the whole Mediterranean region. Other peoples will be threatened; new mass exoduses of migrants created and the dangers linked to terrorism increased. Religious […]

ecumenism

Over one thousand representatives of over twenty Christian denominations, including bishops, Metropolitans and pastors, Russian and Greek-Orthodox clerics among the audience and on stage, along with Anglicans, Syro-Orthodox, Catholics, Reformed Christians; on the background, music of the Far East and Arab chants. Syncretism was nowhere to be seen. Thus, on Saturday March 12 the city […]

chURCHES IN BRIEF

France: Msgr. Simon on secularism and Islam”The Church of France or the Church in France?”. These are the opening lines of the contribution by Msgr. Hippolyte Simon, archbishop of Clermont, vice-president of the French Bishops’ Conference, published on the Catholic daily La Croix on March 14 regarding the debate on secularism and the relationship between […]

cHURCHES IN BRIEF

Germany: pastoral letters for LentThe dialogue on the Church reforms is the main focus of the pastoral letters for Lent, written by the German bishops and read out last Sunday in all German dioceses on the eve of the plenary assembly that began in Paderborn on March 14th. Mgr Robert Zollitsch, president of the German […]