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IN BREVE

Ucraina: incontro dei capi delle Chiese cristianeL’unione fa la forza. Sarà stata questa la certezza che ha spinto i leader delle Chiese cristiane dell’Ucraina a riunirsi il 7 ottobre 2008, presso la sede del monastero basiliano di Kiev, per affrontare i problemi con i quali si confronta attualmente l’Ucraina e le Chiese di questo Paese, […]

CRISI FINANZIARIA

Comece: "mettere in atto una governance globale""È ora di mettere in atto una governance mondiale per apportare più giustizia, trasparenza e responsabilità nei mercati finanziari mondiali". È quanto chiedono i vescovi membri della Commissione "affari sociali" della Comece, la Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea, al termine del loro incontro che si è svolto l’8 […]

PRIMA PAGINA

Cosa succede all’Austria? I risultati finali delle elezioni del Parlamento, svoltesi il 28 settembre, mostrano un quadro drammatico: i due “ex grandi partiti”, Övp (Partito popolare) e Spö (Partito socialdemocratico) hanno ottenuto il minimo delle preferenze mai registrato dal 1945: Spö il 29,3% e Övp il 26%. I due partiti populisti di destra, Fpö (Partito […]

EUROPEAN COUNCIL

As often happens, the European Council, which is due to meet once again in Brussels on 15/16 October, will have too packed an agenda to be able to tackle with the necessary consideration all the issues on the order of the day. The meeting of heads of state and of government, which will be held […]

ECUMENISM

Crete: Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue CommitteeThe meeting of the Coordination Committee of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, which took place in Crete from 27th September to 4th October, “stood out, first and foremost, for a strong spirit of commitment to the theological task, as well as by […]

BIBLE AND EUROPE

“It is impossible to dissociate Europe from Christianity, above all because Christianity is the main key for under standing our continent in its totality. This is the “undeniable fact” on which Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia), based his “Report on the Relationship between the Word of God and Europe, presented to the Synod […]

Religiousness: the first survey in PolandA team of researchers from the Institute for Sociology and Dialogue under the aegis of the renown Catholic monthly “Wiez”, issued the first report regarding the religiousness of the Polish people. The survey presents the views of a number of religious and secular scholars regarding the Church in Poland collected […]

General Assembly of Mother Superiors”The consecrated life – witness and collaboration for the Church and society today. The role of the mother superior”: that was the theme of the 19th General Assembly of the Romanian Conference of Mother Superiors Major (CRSM), held at Cluj Napoca in recent days. It was attended by 44 representatives of […]

IN BRIEF

Ukraine: meeting of heads of the Christian ChurchesThere is strength in union. It was this conviction that prompted the leaders of the Christian Churches of the Ukraine to meet in the Basilian monastery in Kiev on 7 October 2008 to tackle the problems that the country and the Churches of Ukraine are having to face […]

FINANCIAL CRISIS

Comece: “deploying a global governance””The time has come to deploy a worldwide governance to bring more justice, transparency and accountability into the worldwide financial markets”. This was asked by the bishops of the “Social Affairs” Commission of Comece, the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences, at the end of their meeting that took place in […]