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“Migrations” are “one of the problems connected with globalisation and unfair trade”; this is why “a theology of fair peace is needed”: it was said by Fernando Enns, member of the Central Committee of Wcc (World Church Council), during the meeting of the Committee that ends tomorrow September 6th in Geneva. Migrations and commitment to […]

ECUMENISM

“Don’t be content just with praying! Act!” That’s the appeal of Christians living in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel, endorsed and relayed by the Conference of European Churches (CEC), an umbrella organization representing 125 Churches of Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic tradition. An ecumenical delegation to the region has drawn up a wide-ranging report, after […]

The Hungarian bishops have lent their support to the statements of two Slovak bishops who have raised their voices against recent anti-Hungarian demonstrations in Slovakia – reports the Hungarian Catholic press agency Magyar Kurir – and have reiterated their “absolute condemnation of any type of demonstration that incites hatred and violates the dignity of nations”. […]

On the eve of the day against war, celebrated in Germany on 1st September, Reinhald Voss, general secretary of the German section of the Catholic movement for peace, Pax Christi”, issued an appeal for peace. “On the day against war, German trades-union and ecclesiastical groups and organizations, in particular, recall that the Second World War […]

“In dialogue with Christians of the various confessions we need to commit ourselves to care for the creation, without squandering the world’s resources and by sharing them in a spirit of solidarity”: that’s the appeal made by Benedict XVI during his Angelus address in Castelgandolfo on 27 August. “Environmental degradation makes the existence of the […]

FRONT PAGE

Pope Benedict is returning to his homeland. This does not mean he is returning to Germany: the Holy father in fact is returning to Bavaria, which for him and for all Bavarians has a far more specific meaning than returning to Germany as a country that now also includes Westphalia, Saxony, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Pomerania and […]

The new call for tenders for the presentation of proposals in the framework of the INTI Programme 2006 has been published in the Official Gazette of the European Union. The Programme is the operational arm of the Commission dedicated to the funding of preparatory measures aimed at the promotion of the integration of citizens of […]

With the formal approval of the so-called mid-term examination of the implementation of its programme of work for 2006 (and the presentation of its main realizations from January to the present time), the Barroso Commission has also reaffirmed the political priorities that Brussels intends to pursue during the second half of the year. If, on […]

Anche di fronte ai recenti attentati da parte degli autonomisti del Kurdistan, non bisogna aver paura di un eventuale ingresso della Turchia nell’Unione europea. Anzi: sarebbe un’opportunità importante sia per Ankara, sia per l’Europa stessa. Ne è convinto l’arcivescovo di Smirne, mons. Ruggero Franceschini, cappuccino italiano, dal 1993 vescovo e vicario apostolico dell’Anatolia. Prima aveva […]

Il conflitto israelo-palestinese in Libano continua a monopolizzare l’attenzione della stampa del nostro Continente. “Forza Italia” (in italiano), è il titolo del corsivo di Le Monde (30/8) dedicato all’intensa azione diplomatica svolta dal nostro Paese per l’invio di un contingente europeo di pace in Libano. Al “dilettantismo” di Silvio Berlusconi in materia di politica estera, […]