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PAULINE YEAR

“Paul, Testimony and Apostle of Christian identity”: this is the title of the Letter of Turkey’s Bishops Conference issued on the occasion of the Pauline Year (June 28 2008 – June 29 2009) called by the Pope for the bi-millennary of the birth of Saint Paul, and made public today. The Pauline Year was presented […]

AUSTRIA

Integration is not a one-way street, but always signifies rights and duties for everyone, whether they are immigrants or not. This principle is underlined in the document “the challenge of integration: considerations and requests on the part of the Churches and religious communities”, presented in Vienna on 18 January. The document was drawn up jointly […]

Dialogue with the Jews is imperativeOn January 17, on the eve of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Day of Judaism was celebrated. This year’s initiatives were centered on the words from the Book of Genesis: “So God created man to his own image, in the image of God he created him; man […]

Scotland: a week devoted to Catholic schoolsA week devoted to education to reaffirm the role of parents and school in teaching “life-long values”. The Catholic Church in Scotland will celebrate the success of its schools next January 27-February 2 focusing events on “the teaching of life-long values”. The “Scottish Catholic Education Service”, the Scottish Church […]

FRONT PAGE

In the past days, at the Press Office of the Holy See took place the presentation of the Pauline Year (June 28 2008 – June 29 2009) was called by the Pope on the occasion of the bimillenary of the birth of Saint Paul. On the occasion, Turkey’s Bishops Conference today a Letter titled “Paul, […]

EU COMMISSION

Commission President, José Manuel Barroso said: “Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation.” He uses strong and sometimes far-fetched words to describe the package of proposals to fulfill the commitments taken in March 2007 by the EU to fight climate change. Environment, EU leads the way . […]

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

The “silence” of the lack of any reference to the “Christian roots in the Preamble to the European Treaty has been so clamorous as to arouse a huge debate and to move the consciences of numerous citizens. So the work undertaken needs to be deepened, in a constructive spirit and for the genuine good of […]

ECUMENISM

Moscow: gestures of brotherhoodThe gestures of brotherhood between the Catholic Church of Rome and the Orthodox Church of Moscow continue. They come in the aftermath of the commitment taken to resolve the problems that still hamper the process of rapprochement between the two Churches. One such gesture is the message that Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk […]

Una speciale “cappella ecumenica”, destinata “ad offrire ai fratelli cristiani che lo richiedano un luogo speciale di preghiera, per i loro singoli gruppi che vengono pellegrini presso la tomba di Paolo, oppure anche per pregare insieme con i cattolici, senza celebrazione di sacramenti”. Ad annunciare la trasformazione dell’attuale battistero, che si trova tra la basilica […]

PARLAMENTO UE

Cos’hanno in comune la situazione politica in Pakistan con l’impegno a prevenire gli infortuni sul lavoro nelle fonderie europee? Oppure la difesa dei diritti umani in Cina con la riduzione dell’inquinamento dell’aria? Non sono temi direttamente collegati fra loro, ma tutti rientrano tra le competenze politiche e – in parte – legislative del Parlamento Ue. […]