Redazione

On Sunday December 9, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity concluded his trip in Kiev, Ukraine. He was received on December 6 by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of the Ukraine’s Greek-Catholic Church. The following day the cardinal went with the Apostolic nuncio Msgr. Ivan Jurcoviè in […]

ECUMENISM

On December 7, Pope Benedict XVI received in private audience metropolitan bishop Kyrill, who directs the Foreign Affairs department of Moscow’s Patriarchate. The meeting was centred on bilateral relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church as well as Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. In an interview released to the “Osservatore Romano”, metropolitan Kyrill defined […]

“The inevitable stress?” is the title of the Christmas message of the Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, that will be published in the days ahead. The cardinal, according to the Belgian Catholic press agency Cathobel, aims in his Christmas message to tackle the effects of stress on individuals, on the family and on the […]

A firm “no” to any relaxation of the law on stem cells was pronounced by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, in an interview published by the Düsseldorf daily “Rheinische Post” on 8 December. The proposed amendment of the law, not excluded a priori by Chancellor Merkel during the conference of her […]

To mark National Day of Volunteer Service, the diocese of Faro (Algarve) has inaugurated the portal www.solidus.pt, with the aim of improving relations and links between the national institutions and those who wish to dedicate themselves to volunteer service. “We have tried to create a central coordination to which everyone can have recourse, knowing they […]

For the archdiocese of Cologne the year 2007 was dedicated to marriage and to the family, the initiatives in this direction were illustrated on December 5 by Msgr. Robert Kleine, director of the office for pastoral care of the archdiocese. The fundamental importance of the family had already been acknowledged at the beginning of 2006 […]

A new initiative for the pastoral care of workers was launched in Carinthia on December 6. In St. Michael ob Bleiburg, in the “Filterwerk Mahle” factory, with over 2000 employees, 7 local priests will take shifts to give counsel and assistance to workers each Thursday from 1.pm to 3 pm. The company made available a […]

Last week end for Téléthon marathon in France: thirty hours of solidarity on the television networks France 2 and France 3. But on the research projects funded through donations, French bishops last year undertook a battle in defense of human embryos and against its use for research purposes. The French Bishops Conference issued on its […]

FRONT PAGE

At the expiry of the 10 December deadline for the Kosovo-Serbian negotiations on the future of the Balkan region, ended with a standstill, Pristina announced the forthcoming unilateral declaration of independence, while Belgrade warned: “Kosovo will always remain a part of Serbia”. Thus, almost 40 years after the fall of Communist regimes, which had imposed […]

Nel cortile della scuola di Barisal, mentre ragazzi e ragazze sono diligentemente impegnati nelle aule a cucire stoffe, costruire impianti elettrici o riparare motociclette, si forma una lunga e ordinata fila di 200 donne, alcune completamente velate di nero, altre con i classici sari.Sono le destinatarie degli aiuti (alimentari e non) della Caritas, che ha […]