Redazione

ECUMENISMO

Freno ad un possibile incontro di papa Benedetto XVI con il Patriarca Alessio II ma anche constatazione di una intensificazione dei contatti tra Roma e Mosca. Due dichiarazioni tra loro contrastanti sono arrivate dal Patriarcato di Mosca. La prima appare sull’agenzia russa “Interfax” ed è di padre Igor Vizhanov, segretario per i rapporti intercristiani del […]

TURCHIA

Nel quadro dello scambio di delegazioni per le rispettive feste patronali, il 29 giugno a Roma per la celebrazione dei Santi Pietro e Paolo ed il 30 novembre ad Istanbul per la celebrazione di Sant’Andrea, il card. Walter Kasper, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per l’unità dei cristiani, si trova a Istanbul, alla guida di una […]

CCEE-IR

In Europa l’insegnamento della religione (Ir) nella scuola pubblica deve confrontarsi con “tre nodi cruciali: l’attuale clima culturale, sfavorevole alla religione ma che, al tempo stesso, fa intravedere un nuovo interesse per il fatto religioso”; la ricerca di una sua definizione come “disciplina scientifica”; il suo ruolo e le sue modalità di attuazione “all’interno di […]

EU PARLIAMENT

“Crisis defused; now it is time to face the challenge and create the Europe we and the world need”. JOSÉ LUIS ZAPATERO , Spanish Prime Minister, gave a speech on Wednesday 28th November at Brussels Parliament by which he had been invited as one of a number of debates on the future of the EU. […]

THE BANLIEUX OF PARIS

The banlieux, the bleak housing estates on the outskirts of Paris, are once again in the headlines due to the violent unrest in recent days that has caused a wave of injuries and destruction: cars set alight, police stations sacked. The disorders began when two youths aged 15 and 16 were killed following a collision […]

In order to avoid the failure of Annapolis it’s necessary that “all parties at stake act in good faith”, these are the hopes of Samuel Kobia, Methodist pastor of Kenya and secretary general of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in a letter sent to Condoleeza Rice, US Secretary of State, to Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime […]

The Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople illustrated to the European Court for the Rights of Man its recourse against Turkey for a dispute concerning the property of a long-standing orphanage on the Island of Buyukada, near Istanbul. The orphanage, considered the biggest wooden building in Europe, belongs to the patriarchate since 1902 and was transferred to […]

ECUMENISM

A halt was made to the possibility of a meeting between pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexis II together with the acknowledgement of closer contacts between Moscow and Rome. Two differing statements arrived from the Patriarch of Moscow. The first statement, issued by the Russian news agency “Interfax” is by father Igor Vizhanov, Secretary for […]

TURKEY

In the framework of delegation exchange during respective patronal festivals (on June 29th in Rome for the celebration of Saints Peter and Paul, and on November 30th in Istanbul for the celebration of St. Andrew), Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Papal Council for the Unity of Christians, left to Istanbul this morning, heading a […]

CCEE-RE

In Europe religious education (RE) in state schools has to come to terms with “three crucial problems”: the current cultural climate, which is unfavourable to religion but which, at the same time, discloses a new interest in it”; its attempted definition as a “scientific discipline”; and its role and modes of implementation “within a pluralist […]