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Thanks to Lithuanian Catholics, the campaign for the restoration of the “Hill of the Crosses” has begun. Symbolic place of the resistance of the Baltic country to Russian occupation and of the faith of the Lithuanian people, the “Hill of the Crosses” was damaged by fire on 28 December. It contains at least 200,000 crosses […]

“The night of open churches”: that’s the name of the event planned for 22 January that will permit the faithful to visit various Christian churches in the historic city centre of Prague, in which various services of an ecumenical character will be held. The event is being organized as part of the Third European Ecumenical […]

The rite of the great blessing of water, presided over by the Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of Vienna (and exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople), Michael Staikos, was celebrated for the first time in Vienna, on 6 January, solemnity of Epiphany. The Metropolitan was flanked at the rite by the episcopal vicar of the Romanian Orthodox […]

The Bavarian Lutheran bishop Johannes Friedrich has warned of concentrating exclusively on the question of inter-communion in the field of ecumenism: “this problem will undoubtedly not be solved during the next twenty years” and “that’s why it’s wrong to continue to give rise to unrealistic hopes”, declared the bishop in Munich on 10 January, referring […]

Unity among Christians does not yet exist, but “we cannot give way to discouragement, even if the stages that still remain to be completed be of long duration”, say the Spanish bishops of the Episcopal Commission for inter-confessional relations, in their message “Christ illuminates all”, prepared in view of the imminent Week of Prayer for […]

ECUMENISM

There is an “ecumenism from the top”, conducted by church leaders in the form of major meetings and relations between the Churches. And there’s an “ecumenism from the bottom” in which the exchanges involve students and priests and in which each Christian plays a role in the journey towards full communion. The two processes are […]

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The First of January is an important date in the history of Bulgaria: the country, one of the most ancient states in Europe (over 1300 years of history), has rightfully returned to the European family. Bulgaria has had to overcome many obstacles in its European aspirations over the centuries; it’s enough to recall the 200 […]

È già fitto di appuntamenti il calendario ecclesiale dell’anno appena iniziato. Tra i vari incontri in programma, il 2007 vedrà la prima tappa dell’Agorà dei giovani italiani, con il raduno dell’1 e 2 settembre a Loreto alla presenza del Papa. Pochi giorni dopo, a Sibiu in Romania, si svolgerà la terza Assemblea ecumenica europea, a […]

La Commissione europea ha presentato il 10 gennaio l’attesa comunicazione relativa alle “misure strategiche di lotta contro il cambiamento climatico fino al 2020 ed oltre”, a complemento delle iniziative già esistenti la cui vigenza si estende fino al 2012 (anno di scadenza del protocollo di Kyoto sulle emissioni di gas ad effetto serra). L’obiettivo dichiarato […]

Buone notizie sul fronte della lotta alla disoccupazione in Europa, secondo gli ultimi dati pubblicati da Eurostat settimana scorsa riferiti a novembre 2006. Il tasso di disoccupazione di Eurolandia è sceso al 7,6%, con un calo di un decimo di punto percentuale rispetto al mese precedente e di ben sette decimi relativamente allo stesso periodo […]