Redazione

festa di sant'andrea

E’ stato il card. Kurt Koch a guidare quest’anno per la prima volta la delegazione della Santa Sede per la festa di sant’Andrea (30 novembre), patrono del Patriarcato ecumenico, nel quadro dell’annuale scambio di delegazioni per le rispettive feste dei santi patroni. Il presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Promozione dell’Unità dei Cristiani era accompagnato […]

ISLAM IN EUROPE

Dounia Bouzar serves as anthropologist at the “Cultes et Cultures Consulting”, the observatory of religion in France’s working environment. Her latest work, titled “The Republic or the burqua, public services facing the manipulation of Islam”, is a survey conducted in schools, hospitals, refectories, collecting the response to the claims of the Islamic population. Bouzar took […]

FRANCE

“Welcoming others means welcoming a presence. It means encountering a life-nurturing word”. Jean-Charles Tenreiro, vice president of CIMADE (ecumenical mutual support service), President of the Reformed Church in France for l’Ile de France, delivered the opening address on the final day of the 85th Social Weeks of France titled “Migrants, building a future together” (Paris, […]

TURKEY-HOLY SEE

“A cooperation of conscience and trust to help build a better world”: that’s how the Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See, Kenan Gürsoy, defined the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Turkey, on the 50th anniversary of their establishment. The anniversary was also the focal point of a study day promoted jointed by the […]

FEAST OF SAINT ANDREW

For the first time Cardinal Kurt Koch headed the Holy See delegation for the Feast of Saint Andrew (November 30), patron Saint of the ecumenical patriarchate, in the framework of the yearly exchange of delegations for the respective feasts of the patron saints. The president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity […]

TAIZÉ

For a few days, from 28 December to 1 January the port city of Rotterdam will become the spiritual centre of Europe. 30 000 young people are expected to attend the 33rd European Meeting organized by the Taizé Community (www.taize.fr/en) at the invitation of the Bishops Conference of the Netherlands, the General Council of the Dutch […]

NORTHERN IRELAND

An appeal for “a new mobilisation of voluntary participation to tackle poverty in our society” was addressed on December 1st by Msgr. Noel Treanor bishop of Down and Connor, Irish delegate to COMECE, at the launch of Challenging Poverty in Northern Ireland report in Belfast. The Report was produced jointly by the Northern Ireland Catholic […]

EU - ENVIRONMENT/2

The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun began its work – perhaps in a somewhat low-key way – on 29 November. It is due to end on 10 December. The stakes have still to be defined, but the spectre of another semi-failure, like that registered at Copenhagen last year, can be felt in the air. […]

EU - ENVIRONMENT/1

“We are consuming more natural resources than is ecologically stable. This is true for both Europe and the planet as a whole. Climate change is the most visible sign of instability so far, but a range of global trends suggests greater systemic risks to ecosystems in future”, says Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European […]

EDITORIAL

The visit that Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Church, wished to pay to Pope John XXIII on 2 December 1960 was in truth a strictly private one according to the Vatican ceremonial, “a courtesy visit” as Fisher himself called it. Nonetheless it acquired an almost official character, both […]