Redazione

Serbs and Albanians are cooperating in the reconstruction of the Orthodox churches destroyed in Kosovo in 2004. According to a report carried by the Austrian Catholic Kathpress agency, the reconstruction of the four churches has already been completed and the exteriors of a further seven churches will be reconstructed by the end of the year. […]

“Religious broadcasts for our time” is the title of the seminar promoted in recent days at Maynooth by the Council of the Churches of Ireland for television and radiophonic affairs (ICCTRA). Over 40 delegates representing the member Churches of ICCTRA, including 6 representatives for the Catholic Church, 2 for the Church of Ireland, and one […]

ECUMENISM

“Democracy needs virtues”: that is the title of a common document on the future of democracy of the German Bishops’ Conference and Council of the German Evangelical (EKD), published in Berlin in recent days. The document was presented by the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, by the President of the Council […]

SALESIANS

“Europeans – some 707 millions of them, including the European parts of Russia and Turkey – are by a large majority Christian (560 million, of whom 285 Catholic; 161 Orthodox; 77 Protestant; 26 Anglican; and 11 other)”. But Judaism, with 2.5 million faithful, also belongs to the historical roots of Europe. Also present in the […]

A symposium to disseminate knowledge of the pastoral activity and teachings of John Paul II was held in recent days by the Bishops’ Conference of Belarus in the Marian cathedral of Minsk. The meeting on “John Paul II, man of faith and of culture” was held as part of a programme of commemorative events that […]

In Kiev, too, a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio was held in recent days. It was attended by the leaders of the Catholic Church of Latin rite and Greek-Catholic rite, including Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the apostolic nuncio Archbishop Ivan Jurkowiè, Bishops Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk and Bohdan Dziurach, and priests […]

“Today the social culture does not support the development of the culture of life and of faith: it does not support faith itself”, declared the Archbishop of Moscow Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, addressing a conference on the Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II Familiaris Consortio in recent days. Held in the Catholic cathedral of the Russian capital […]

A pilgrimage from Krakow to the Holy Land, in memory of John Paul II, has been made in recent days. Led by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Metropolitan of Krakow, it visited the main holy places and sanctuaries, starting out from the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. During the pilgrimage, in which some 700 Polish Catholics participated, […]

“No silence about domestic violence”: that’s the recent appeal made by the Austrian Catholic women’s movement KFBÖ, to mark the inauguration of the international campaign “16 days without violence to women”. Inviting women to seek help from the advice centres, by calling the free helpline 0800 222 555, instead of remaining silent in cases of […]

“The cross isn’t a piece of furniture in the courtroom”, said Bishop Reinhard Marx of Trier, commenting on 22 November on the recent decision of the judicial authorities of the Land to remove crucifixes from courtrooms. Marx, recalling the intervention of the Pope on the situation of the Church in Germany during the bishops’ ‘ad […]