Redazione

The Forum on inter-regional cooperation organized by the European Commission and the Portuguese Presidency of the EU ends in Lisbon today. Its aim was to celebrate the success of the EU inter-regional programme Interreg IIIc and to officially launch the new programme Interreg IVc. Interreg is the financial instrument that the Commission places at the […]

CULTURE AND CULTURES

“Dialogue between cultures should aim not at uniformity of views, but at what is called recognition in Hegelian terms”, which permits “mutual enrichment by overcoming the two opposite temptations of disparagement and a dangerous assimilation of the culture of others”, said Jesuit Father PAUL VALADIER , of the Centre de Sèvres (Paris), in his address […]

GERMANY

In an interview conducted by Stefan Orth for the August number of Herder Korrespondenz, FRIEDRICH SCHWEITZER , since 1995 Professor of Practical Theology/Pedagogy of Religion at the faculty of evangelical theology of the University of Tübingen and chairman of the educational council of the EKD-German Evangelical Church, describes the current situation of religious education in […]

The alarm was sounded during a seminar at the Senate (on 11 September) on the conservation of the national heritage, reported by the French daily “Le Monde”. The watchdog that monitors the religious heritage maintains that in coming decades a good part of the 100,000 churches on French territory risk falling into ruin due to […]

The risk of “a country adrift”, a country without a compass and a common sense of direction in which to guide the efforts of its various social and cultural components was pointed out by Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, in his address to the permanent Bishops’ Council on Monday 17 September. […]

FRONT PAGE

During his recent journey to Poland (14-15 September), Cardinal TARCISIO BERTONE , Vatican Secretary of State, inaugurated, at the Jagellonian University in Krakow, the session on “The religious factor and the future of Europe”, as part of the 7th International Conference: “The role of the Catholic Church in the process of European integration”. We open […]

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The 15th International Ecumenical Conference “The transfigured Christ in the Orthodox spiritual tradition” was held at the monastery of Bose (Italy) in recent days. During the meeting SirEurope’s correspondent Chiara Santomiero interviewed the Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation, Monsignor ANTONIO MENNINI , on the dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox. Patriarch Alexei Il has thanked […]

“Evangelisation in the metropolises of the XXI century will largely depend on the clarity of the content that we have been entrusted to proclaim”: it was said in Budapest, as he spoke at the International Congress for new evangelisation, which opened on September 16th (until 22nd), by Ralph Martin of the “Renewal in spirit”. “I […]

Over the last few years, the relations between Bulgaria and the Church, and in particular the Holy See, have made remarkable progress. Especially after the Pope’s visit in May 2002″. It was said by the apostolic nuncio to Bulgaria, mgr. Giuseppe Leanza, at the end of the conference on “The Balkans, the crossroad of Europe. […]

“An isolated fact which should be given the right weight but not emphasis. Such events do not reflect the thoughts of the vast majority of the Turkish population”. It was stated to SIR by mgr. Luigi Padovese, apostolic vicar to Anatolia, who commented the music video which has been cast on the web by a […]