Redazione

The World Council of Churches has announced that a brochure entirely dedicated to the recent Porto Alegre assembly is now available (in PDF format, on the website www.oikoumene.org http://www.oikoumene.org ). The Porto Alegre Assembly brought together over 4,000 delegates from Churches all over the world in the Brazilian city. As WCC general secretary Pastor Samuel […]

The “House of Bishops” of the Church of England and the bishops of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales will meet for a bi-lateral meeting at Hinsley Hall in Leeds on 14-15 November. The two Churches report the forthcoming meeting in a joint press release. “The meeting – says the statement – will […]

“The world is tired of living in fear”: that’s the message being sent out from Washington by scores of exponents of religions and cultures from all over the world, who met at Georgetown University on 26-27 April for a meeting promoted by the St. Egidio Community to mark the 20th World Day of Prayer for […]

ECUMENISM

“The European Churches and the challenges of peace, security and reconciliation”: the theme will be debated by the 24 members of the “Church and Society” Commission of the CEC (Conference of European Churches) together with a group of experts from over 20 nations of Europe at the annual plenary meeting due to be held at […]

HUNGARY

Peter Erdö was only four and a half years when, at dawn on 4 November 1956, 25,000 Soviet tanks invaded Hungary and occupied Budapest. So began the unequal contest between the occupying forces and Hungarian rebels asking for freedom. PETER ERDÖ has vivid memories of those days: “I remember the gunfire, lots of gunfire. I […]

BENEDICT XVI

Three apostolic journeys of Pope Benedict XVI have so far been officially confirmed: to Verona for the 4th national ecclesial Meeting, to Poland in the footsteps of John Paul II, and to Brazil on the conclusion of the 5th General Conference of the Latin-American episcopate. The visit to Verona will be the Pope’s second journey […]

FRONT PAGE

Apart from fostering the Christian heritage of the old continent and underlining the need to draw inspiration from it to tackle current challenges, Benedict XVI, in his recent address to members of the European People’s Party, spelt out what should be the real role of the Church in relation to political life. The main question […]

L’Azione Cattolica ha aperto alla Chiesa italiana la strada che porta a Verona e al prossimo Convegno ecclesiale in programma dal 16 al 20 ottobre. Da sabato 29 aprile a lunedì 1 maggio oltre 1.000 responsabili dell’associazione, dagli adulti ai giovani e fino ai ragazzi, si sono dati appuntamento proprio a Verona per aprire “nuove […]

“Dynamic factor model”, o modello a fattori dinamici. È la denominazione del modello sviluppato alla fine del 2004 dalla Direzione generale per gli affari economici e finanziari della Commissione Europea per prevedere l’andamento del Prodotto Interno Lordo dell’area dell’Euro. L’ultima recente versione del modello anticipa una crescita del PIL di Eurolandia per il primo quadrimestre […]

Ondata di procedimenti d’infrazione per mancato recepimento della normativa comunitaria in materia di mercato interno. Il deferimento operato dalla Commissione alla Corte di Giustizia “per mancata comunicazione delle misure nazionali di attuazione” riguarda 19 Stati membri e 8 Direttive: Francia, Germania, Grecia, Malta, Portogallo e Spagna per quanto concerne la Direttiva sull’intermediazione assicurativa; Lettonia e […]