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The Greek Bishops’ Conference has launched an emergency fund-raising appeal to help relieve the victims of the disastrous forest fires that have laid waste the country in recent weeks, causing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. With the death on 5 September of a soldier badly burned in the rescue attempt, the number of […]

A poster campaign and a wholly new website: so Missio, the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies of Austria, is preparing to welcome the Pope during his forthcoming visit to the Marian sanctuary of Mariazell (7-9 September). In the posters Benedict XVI is portrayed with four children and the slogan of the visit, “Look to Christ”. The choice […]

“Human beings have a unique nature specifically distinct from the natures of all other animals”; therefore it is right to pose the ethical question whether “it is right to transgress that species boundary and attempt to mix human and animal natures in however limited a fashion”. So said Peter Smith, archbishop of Cardiff and head […]

“In Poland the ideals of the Charta oecumenica have been diffused but they are still not sufficiently well known”, said Msgr. Tadeusz Pikus, who chairs the Council for Ecumenism within the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP). The bishop was speaking just a few days before the inauguration of the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu. “The […]

“More pastoral care for immigrants from Eastern Europe”: this will be promoted in the next few months by the archdiocese of Valencia (Spain), because of the “endless rise in the number of devotees” in that area. According to sources of the Diocesan Commission for ecumenism, over 50,000 immigrants of Oriental Catholic rite, mostly Ukrainians and […]

“Establishing a day of Christian-Islamic dialogue at European level”: this is the appeal made by the Committee which organised the sixth ecumenical day of Christian-Islamic dialogue to the delegates of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly, which opens in Sibiu (Romania) tomorrow, about “The light of Christ enlightens everybody. Hope of renewal and unity in Europe”. […]

“We ask to pray for the Christians who will convene in Sibiu from 4th to 9th September, that God’s Spirit may strengthen their efforts for justice, peace and the preservation of the Creation”: this is the invitation made by the German Bishops Conference (Dbk) to the congregation on 31st August, in the run-up to the […]

On the occasion of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly now being held at Sibiu (Romania), until 9 September, Claudia Stanila, on behalf of SirEurope, has interviewed Father CONSTANTIN NECULA, adviser of the Metropolitan Church of Transylvania and Professor of Catechetics at the Orthodox University of Theology in Sibiu. What are the characteristics of Romanian Orthodox […]

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“Commitment to the search for the visible unity of all Christians is essential, so that the light of Christ may shine on all men”, declared BENEDICT XVI in the message sent to Cardinal Peter Erdö, President of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE), and to Pastor Jean-Arnold de Clermont, president of the […]

“L’impegno nella ricerca dell’unità visibile di tutti i cristiani è essenziale, affinché la luce di Cristo possa risplendere su tutti gli uomini”: è quanto affermato da Benedetto XVI nel Messaggio inviato al card. Peter Erdö, presidente del Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa (Ccee), e al pastore Jean-Arnold de Clermont, presidente della Conferenza delle Chiese d’Europa […]