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A meeting devoted to “a new humanism for Europe: the role of the universities” will be held in Rome, from 21 to 24 June 2007. Promoted by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE), to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome, the meeting will be subdivided into […]

A special “Day of Prayer and Solidarity with the Holy Father” is to be celebrated in the Greek-Catholic community in Belarus on Sunday, 8 October. It marks the 410th anniversary of the Union of Brest (23 December 1595), which sanctioned the reconciliation and full communion between the Greek-Catholic communities of Ukraine and neighbouring areas and […]

The new law on divorce has led to an exponential growth of family breakdown in Spain: in the first year of its application (July 2005-July 2006) 163,444 divorces have been registered. The finding emerges from the survey conducted by Spain’s Institute of Family Policy (IFP) and is reported by the Fides international press agency. According […]

The 4th National Ecclesial Meeting will also be a “propitious occasion to qualify the service we intend to offer to the country as witnesses of hope”, says the message of the presidency of the Italian Bishops’ Conference on the occasion of the ecclesial meeting due to be held shortly in Verona (16-20 October). The Meeting, […]

Renouncing lunch to help fund works of solidarity for a Congolese village: that’s the idea put into practice in the United Kingdom, where CAFOD, the most important Catholic charity for aid to the Third World, held the traditional “Fast Day” on 6 October, aimed at Catholic schools and parishes in the country. Thousands of people […]

A few days after the official confirmation by Brussels of the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union from 1st January 2007, the first inter-religious conference in Bulgaria was held in the city of Russe, seat of the diocese of Nicopoli, on 29-30 September. Organized by the Bulgarian Catholic Church, the theme of […]

“John Paul II – servant of mercy” is the slogan of the 6th Pontifical Day to be celebrated in Poland on 15 October, to mark the 28th anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope. “John Paul II – write the Polish bishops in a letter issued on 8 October – was not only […]

CCEE

The new President of the CCEE (Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe) for the five-year period 2006-2011 is the Archbishop of Budapest and Primate of Hungary, Cardinal PETER ERDÖ. He was elected during the plenary assembly of the CCEE, representing the 34 Bishops’ Conferences of the continent, which ended in St. Petersburg on 8 […]

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“The discussions and results of the plenary assembly of the Council of the European Bishops’ Conferences (Ccee) in St. Petersburg were extremely positive”, declared Cardinal Peter Erdö, newly elected President of the Ccee for the period 2006-2011, during an interview with the Russian Catholic weekly “Svet Evangelia”. He added that he was very optimistic about […]

“Una Chiesa che è voglia di comunità e che, in tale realtà, trova il senso vivo del suo essere una comunione: una comunione di Chiese che con-vengono per dirsi anzitutto – come i discepoli di Emmaus tornati a Gerusalemme – la gioia di avere incontrato il Risorto e, perciò, di avere fatto l’esperienza della missione”. […]