Redazione

The first meeting of the “Group of intellectuals and experts in multilingualism” was held in Brussels last week, co-chaired by Commissioner Leonard Orban and the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The Group is composed of ten independent personalities from Lebanon, Denmark, Germany, Morocco, Belgium, Czech Republic, UK, Romania, Spain and Portugal. The European Commission has given […]

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the European Social Fund (EFS), the German Presidency of the EU held an inter-ministerial conference at Potsdam last week with the title “50 years of investments in people”. The two-day conference – in which hundreds of “key players” from all over Europe took part […]

ROMANIA

“The family relation generates openness, reciprocal support and mutual aid”, says Father FABIAN MARIUT , priest of the diocese of Bucharest, where he fills the role of head of the office for family pastoral care. He’s also a careful observer of the social reality of his country, just a few months after it joined the […]

COMECE

The June number of “Europe infos”, monthly of COMECE (Commission of the episcopates of the European Community) and OCIPE (Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe) focuses on the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in 2008. “Intercultural dialogue has now become a key element of politics: after the events of 11 September, the various […]

“You are Christians or Muslims and have shared the experience of meeting others who are different from you in faith and in religious practices”, or “you think that many Christians and Muslims have a false image of each other and of each other’s religions” or, again, “you consider it indispensable that in our society the […]

“The Patriarch, who has been able to remain on Turkish soil, is subject to the laws of the State. Therefore there are no legal foundations to accept the claims that the patriarchate is ecumenical”. With this ruling, a Turkish court upheld on Tuesday 26 June the position long defended by the government that repudiates the […]

ECUMENISM

“Reinforcing the existing links of brotherhood between the Orthodox Churches and being able to act and speak in a coordinated manner, with a single voice and a single heart to the Third European Ecumenical Assembly”: that’s how Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima (Ecumenical Patriarchate) explains the aim of the meeting held in Rhodes (25-28 June) and […]

A critical assessment of the failure to achieve the so-called Millennium Goals has come from the five major Austrian humanitarian organizations, Caritas, Care, SOS-Kinderdorf, “Licht für die Welt” and Red Cross, which held a joint press conference on the matter in Vienna on 3 July. “We are still very far from the objective of halving […]

The celebration of the 60th Week of Missiology in Burgos will take place from 9 to 13 July. The theme chosen for this year’s event is “Africa, a provocation for the world and for the Church” 50 years after the Encyclical “Fidei Donum”. The aim of the Week is to review the situation of the […]

Some 500 Bible scholars from all over the world will gather at Ljubljana from 12 to 20 July for the 19th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT). The congress forms part of the programme of events accompanying Bible Year, currently underway in Slovenia. The country is the first […]