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COMECE

Nel discorso di apertura, ieri 8 ottobre, delle “Giornate sociali cattoliche per l’Europa” su “Solidarietà, la sfida per l’Europa” (Danzica,fino all’11 ottobre), mons. Adrianus van Luyn, vescovo di Rotterdam e presidente della Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea che le promuove, è partito dagli eventi legati alla nascita di “Solidarnosc” nel cantiere navale della città […]

PRIMA PAGINA

“Un lavoro comune ormai consolidato”: il card. Péter Erdő, arcivescovo di Esztergom-Budapest e presidente del Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali europee (Ccee), intervenuto alla seconda congregazione generale del Sinodo per l’Africa in corso in Vaticano fino al 25 ottobre, ha definito in questi termini l’attività svolta “con i vescovi africani nel quadro dei programmi comuni del […]

Gender inequalities persist in the education systems “The more equal societies are in economic and social terms, the greater the likelihood there is of having gender equality in education”. This is one of major findings of the report, on “Gender and Education” in the EU, issued by the Commission on October 5. The report was […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The European Parliament has welcomed the positive result of the Irish referendum for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, but at the same time has sent out a clear message to Poland and the Czech Republic, the only two countries that have still to complete the ratification process: Europe cannot wait.“Now it’s up to Poland […]

SERBIA

The primacy of contemplative life over active life, the importance of work as a primary means of daily sustenance, studying and the preeminence of faith, a sign of belonging, heralding the identity of a people. These are the characterizing traits of the Orthodox monasteries in Fruska Gora, in the Northern part of Serbia, currently a […]

CZECH REPUBLIC

On September 28 ended the 13th apostolic visit of Benedict XVI in the Czech Republic, a three-day trip to the heart of Europe. The Pope recalled the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall and celebrated the annual feast of the identity of the nation bound to Saint Wenceslas. SIR Europe interviewed Msgr. Jan […]

FRANCE

In the past months, a hot debate on the revision of the bioethics law in France, due to take place in 2010, took place in France, which involved also the French Church. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux and vice-President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) reported on the issue during the Plenary […]

Belarus: awaiting the PopeBelorussian bishops will officially invite Pope Benedict XVI to visit their country next year. They will do it on the occasion of their ad limina visit to Rome on 10 December. The news was released by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Metropolitan of Minsk, in an interview with “catholic.by”. “Benedict XVI – said the […]

Germany: solidarity to the Church of Ethiopia “It is my wish that the African Church, with her own forces, will give a substantial contribution to the reconciliation of societies in our Continent”. The archbishop of Hamburg, Msgr. Werner Thissen, director of the organization for development cooperation Misereor, conveyed this hope during the Second African Synod […]

COMECE

Solidarity “which pledges us all to active and responsible fellowship with others” is “the best cure for the economic and financial crisis from which Europe and the world are suffering. It’s the antidote to any future crisis”, said Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan, in his homily in Gdansk yesterday evening. The cardinal was speaking […]