Redazione

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Pavle, was admitted to the military hospital in Belgrade on Friday 14 April. An official communiqué of the Serbian Church explained that the Patriarch was hospitalized “due to his general state of health linked to his age”. Pavle is in fact 91 year old and already spent several […]

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexis II has sent a message of good wishes to Pope Benedict XVI and to the leaders of the other Christian Churches on the occasion of Easter, which is still being celebrated by Christians on different dates: by the Christians of the West (Catholics and Protestants) on Sunday 16 April and by […]

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has (as others) vehemently denounced the growing fascination exerted by the theories formulated by bestsellers like Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and by the recently published manuscript of the “Gospel of Judas”. He did so in his Easter Day sermon in Canterbury Cathedral on Sunday 16 April. The head […]

ECUMENISM

The World Council of Churches has asked the European Union to exercise “respect” for the electoral choice of the Palestinians, which decreed the victory of Hamas on 25 January, and to continue its humanitarian aid to the population. In a letter of WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia to the chairperson of the Council of the […]

BENEDICTINES

“The Benedictine federation now comprises just over 8,000 monks and 17,000 nuns throughout the world. They are subdivided into over a thousand monasteries. It’s a movement in growth in the developing countries, but stagnant in the Western world: a standstill due more to demographic decline than to any diminution in the appeal of this form […]

Yesterday, the Health Commission of the Spanish Senate gave the go-ahead to the bill of law about human in vitro fertilisation. Now, the law will be submitted to the plenary meeting of the Upper House, then to Parliament again. Josep Maria Simón, ex president of “Christian Doctors of Catalonia”, explains to Sir the “alarming” consequences […]

The Catholic Church in France has expressed its solidarity with the bishops of Congo Brazzaville, who say they are “surprised and worried” about the arrest and imprisonment of two human rights workers, Christian Mounzeo and Brice Mackosso, the latter secretary of the Commission of Justice and Peace of the diocese of Pointe Noire. In a […]

A delegation promoted by the Swiss bishops is currently in Iran for a series of meetings with representatives of other religions and with the political authorities. The workgroup (GTI) was received by former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami who emphasized – as the spokesman of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference Mario Galgano reports – “the crucial importance […]

The National Council of Ethics for the Sciences of Life in Portugal has published a document in which it affirms “human cloning for reproductive purposes should be prohibited because it violates human dignity”. The Council differentiates “reproductive purpose” from “bio-medical research”, explaining that “specific ethical problems exist”. It continues: “The practice of cloning for purposes […]

Over 4000 people have been left homeless as a result of the flooding of the Danube that has burst its banks, especially in eastern Romania, where 120 towns and villages have been inundated and over 600 houses destroyed. The Romanian authorities are doing their utmost to help people and the Churches too are trying to […]