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EU

The problems that await resolution “are of limited scale”; so “an agreement is possible, within the terms of the mandate conferred on us by the European Council in June”, declared JOSÉ SOCRATES , Portuguese premier and current President of the European Council. Socrates exuded optimism on the eve of the summit in Lisbon on 18-19 […]

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is inviting students of theology and young theologians from all over the world to bring new perspectives and contributions to the debate about the future of the ecumenical movement by participating in an essay competition to mark the WCC’s 60th anniversary in 2008. Participants in the contest, both clergy […]

Closer relations and encounter between children makes “understanding and friendship between the various communities and faiths deeper and more conscious” and represents “a further piece of the mosaic of peaceful co-existence, respect and solidarity between the children of Abraham”. With this objective in mind, Catholic Action of the Region of Tuscany, the Jewish and Islamic […]

INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

The monks and nuns of France who belong to the religious family of St. Benedict have sent a message of solidarity to the Buddhist monks of Burma and to the country’s whole population and have called for a day of prayer and fasting on 27 October, the 21st anniversary of the meeting promoted by John […]

POLAND

“Today the Church in Poland is celebrating the ‘Day of the Pope’. It is a particular time of prayer for the beatification of the Servant of God John Paul II, of reflection on his teaching and of charitable action according to his appeals. Spiritually I associate myself with this initiative and extend my heartfelt blessing […]

“If we don’t react in a rapid and determined manner, we will leave to our children an uninhabitable and dangerous world, an exhausted planet, a scarred humanity”. This is the conviction that inspired the choice of the theme for the 82nd Social Week in France, “Living differently for a lasting and sustainable development”, due to […]

SOCIAL WEEKS

The 45th Social Week of Italian Catholics opened at Pistoia on 18 October; it will continue in Pisa until 21 October. This year’s theme is: “The common good today: a commitment that comes from afar”. The meeting is being held exactly a century after the first Social Week, promoted in Pisa in 1907 by the […]

To mark World Nutrition Day (18 October), the German Catholic charity Misereor has drawn attention to the risky competition between use of plants for food and their exploitation as “biofuels’. “The growing demand for plants such as sugar beet, palm oil, soya or maize to produce energy represents a danger for the poor populations of […]

An appeal to the authorities of Myanmar to prevent “any recourse to violence, punish those who have participated in killings, end their siege of Buddhist monasteries and release all those arrested during the demonstrations: that is one of the most significant contents of the statement of the Czech bishops issued in recent days on the […]

About 23 thousand Portuguese citizens subscribed a petition, delivered by the National Commission for Justice and Peace. The collected adhesions were delivered yesterday, October 17th – International Day dedicated to the struggle against poverty, – in the hands of the president of the Parliament, Jaime Gama. The document is to be debated by the legislative […]