Redazione

Irlanda: in preparazione della Visita apostolicaIl 5 ottobre, il prefetto e il segretario della Congregazione per i Vescovi e rappresentanti della Santa Sede si sono incontrati a Roma con i Visitatori apostolici nominati dal Papa per preparare la visita apostolica alla Chiesa d’Irlanda che su decisione di papa Benedetto XVI partirà in ottobre. Hanno partecipato […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Ecco che improvvisamente e in modo del tutto inaspettato, un gruppo etnico di cittadini europei relativamente poco numeroso (10 – 12 milioni), i Rom, si trova al centro della scena politica europea. Sin dalla mia infanzia, mi ricordo che gli Zingari, perché è così che li si chiamava allora, erano parte integrante del nostro tessuto […]

Religious freedom: a declaration at the EU Parliament The European Parliament and the EU must take action against religious discrimination. This is the main demand of a Written Declaration initiated by MEPs Mario Mauro and Konrad Szymanski that will be submitted to the European Parliament for approval in the coming weeks. It will require the […]

EU PARLIAMENT

The reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990 represents a symbolic event, a point of arrival in the history of Europe and, at the same time, a tipping point in the effort to achieve the integration of the peoples and states of the continent. That’s the main message that came out of the solemn session […]

COMECE

The October issue of Europe Infos, the news bulletin of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) in cooperation with the Jesuit European Office (Ocipe) is now available. The process for the implementation of the European Foreign Action service is the theme of the contribution of Jesuit Fr. Frank Turner, OCIPE, […]

ROMA IN EUROPE

In Europe the spotlight continues to be fixed on the question of the ethnic minority of the Roma, which was also one of the issues discussed during the 40th general assembly of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), held at Zagreb, in Croatia from 30 September to 3 October. The European Churches have already […]

EUROPEAN SOCIAL WEEK

“Educating European Catholics” to “think European” and “promote common Catholic thought across the Continent, especially when it comes to fundamental values such as life, the family, religious freedom and social justice”. Upon the conclusion of the 40th CCEE general assembly in Zagreb Msgr. Giampaolo Crepaldi, bishop of Trieste and president of the recently established Caritas […]

MOLDOVA

“In Moldova we’re living in a society divided between those who dream to be part of the European Union on the one side and Russian nostalgics on the other”, said the bishop of Chisinau, Msgr. Antonio Cosa, in an interview by Jacques Berset, director of the Swiss news agency Apic, in cooperation with SIR Europe. […]

Ireland: preparing for the Apostolic VisitationOn October 5 the prefect and secretary of the Congregation for Bishops and other Holy See representatives held a meeting in Rome with the apostolic visitors appointed by Benedict XVI to discuss preparations for the Apostolic visitation to the Church of Ireland which Pope Benedict XVI called for October. Irish […]

FRONT PAGE

Quite out of the blue, the Roma, a relatively small (10-12 million) ethnic group of European citizens, have found themselves at the epicentre of European politics. I remember from my childhood days that the Gypsies (that is what we called them in those times) were always around in and around our neighbourhood even though they […]