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45% of the French believe that religions ought not to be criticised and 53% fear that tensions between Christians and Muslims will increase in the years ahead. These findings emerge from a survey published in the French Catholic weekly “La Vie”. The opinion poll, conducted on 20-21 September by the polling agency CSA on a […]

The Day of Christian Media and Culture was celebrated in Belgium on 24 September. In a message issued for the occasion, Cardinal Godfried Danneels recalled “the magnificent role that the media can play in society. A means of communication, of exchanges full of messages transmitted in all directions, the media can truly influence our culture. […]

A “missionary bridge of prayer” is the initiative that the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies of the Czech Republic are launching to mark this year’s Missionary Day due to be held on 21 October. News of the event is carried by the Fides international press agency. Eighty years ago Pius XI established World Missionary Day at the […]

Four thousand young Catholics between the ages of 18 and 35 will meet in the Birmingham Arena on 14 and 15 October for what is considered the most important youth meeting in England and Wales in the last 25 years. Two days of meetings, discussions, games and prayer, as explained on the website that the […]

A conference on the defence of life was held at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University on 25 September. Organized by the Pro-Life Forum, the Association for Hungarian Catholic Families, the Pro-Life Ecumenical Foundation and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, under the auspices of Cardinal Péter Erdo, the conference was attended by Catholic and Protestant bishops, […]

Preparations for Benedict XVI’s next apostolic journey, that to Turkey (28 November – 1 December), continue apace. The controversies aroused in Turkey, too, after the Pope’s lecture in Regensburg had led some analysts to assume that the visit would be postponed, but this has not happened. Indeed yesterday the European Parliament expressed the hope that […]

For the first time ever the Presidents of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) will meet at St. Petersburg in Russia from 4 to 8 October, at the invitation of Monsignor Joseph Werth, President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation. On this occasion the Presidents of the 34 Bishops’ Conferences […]

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“In what does the European identity consist?” The question, posed during the Summer University recently held by COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) in Austria is one we could address to the French, fifteen months after their ‘no’ to the European Constitution.What do they know of the motives at the basis […]

Continua, nelle 226 diocesi italiane, il cammino di preparazione al IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale in programma a Verona, dal 16 al 20 ottobre, sul tema: “Testimoni di Gesù Risorto, speranza del mondo”.Reagire alla “crisi” di speranza. “La speranza cristiana si fonda sulla risurrezione di Cristo e quindi sulla capacità di Dio di salvarci anche nelle […]

È un libretto di cinquanta pagine denso di contenuti e ricco di proposte il primo “documento” del Convegno di Verona. I capitoli sono sei: uno per ciascun ambito della testimonianza (vita affettiva, lavoro e festa, fragilità umana, tradizione, cittadinanza) preceduti da una lunga sezione dedicata al tema generale dell’incontro veronese: “Testimoni di Gesù risorto, speranza […]