Redazione

The secretaries general of the 34 Bishops Conferences of Europe will meet in Minsk (Belarus) from 14th to 18th June for their 35th meeting which will deal with "Migration: a challenge for Europe". The meeting will also be attended by the apostolic nuncio to Belarus, mgr. Martin Vidoviæ, and the secretary general of Comece (Commission […]

The celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome (1957-2007) will include a meeting of teachers of the Universities of Europe, promoted by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) in collaboration with European institutions and the Italian government. It will be held in Rome from 21 to 24 June 2007, […]

CCEE

The annual meeting of press officers and spokespersons of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe will be held at Sibiu (in Romania) from 9 to 10 September. This year’s meeting will take place on the day following the end of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3), due to be held in Sibiu from 4 to 9 […]

“Equality of treatment and solidarity”: these are the “keywords” in terms of asylum on which the Commission intends to focus. On 6 June it released three documents: a green paper “aimed at stimulating a debate on the future of the European common regime”; a draft directive “aimed at offering the beneficiaries of international protection the […]

“In spite of the fact that we are inundated every day by grim news stories, one more tragic than the other, there are images to which we cannot become accustomed, such as that of the 27 African clandestine immigrants clinging to a fishing net in the midst of a sea of indifference”. So begins the […]

“It’s a tragedy that is added to the countless other tragedies of boat-people who flee from the deprivation of their own country hoping to find Eldorado in the West”, commented Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon on the disaster at sea that caused the death of 18 clandestine immigrants, including two adolescents; their bodies were fished […]

LOST AT SEA

“The Mediterranean is a cemetery without crosses and without names. Thousands of people have died in the bid to reach Europe. It is right to remember them; it is our duty to do so”, said Father Gianromano Gnesotto of the Migrantes Foundation (Italian Bishops’ Conference). Speaking to SIR about the recent cases of immigrants lost […]

G8

BENEDICT XVI has made an appeal to the G8 which opened at Heiligendamm, in Germany, on 6 June. During his Wednesday General Audience the Pope asked the leaders of the G8 “to fulfil their pledges to substantially increase their aid to development in support of the populations most in need, especially those of the African […]

FRONT PAGE

During the meeting of the social commission of COMECE, held in Berlin on 22 May, the bishops and experts of the thirteen participating bishops’ conferences were able to directly exchange views on the priorities of the European episcopates in relation to the social doctrine of the Church. That’s a good thing; it’s a value in […]

“Nell’affrontare il tema dell’educazione al sociale e al politico oggi, siamo chiamati a tenere presente quanto dice la Nota pastorale Cei su Le comunità cristiane educano al sociale e al politico del 1998, quando ricorda che l’attitudine educativa di una comunità si misura nel vissuto quotidiano della pastorale ordinaria, da quanto sa educare nella catechesi, […]