Redazione

The Russian Orthodox Church presented on Thursday 6 April – at the end of the 10th World Russian People’s Congress (Moscow, 4-6 April) – a “declaration on the rights and dignity of man”, denouncing the excesses of absolute individualism that pervades the international regime of human rights and expressing the concern that it occupies a […]

A commission of the American Episcopalian Church has rejected a proposed moratorium on the election of openly gay bishops, limiting itself to the declaration that henceforth the congregation would have to exercise “considerable prudence” in the choice of diocesan leaders who are cohabiting with partners of the same sex. The commission also recommended that the […]

ECUMENISM

Catholics, Protestants and Jews are preparing this week to celebrate Easter (or Passover), essential religious feast both for Christians and Jews which this year, by chance, falls in the same week. On Sunday 9 April, Catholics and Protestants celebrated Palm Sunday, the feast with which the two Churches officially opened the celebration of Holy Week […]

GERMANY

According to some estimates of the German Federal Statistics Office, 680,000- 690,000 children were born alive in Germany in 2005; there were over 705,000 in 2004. The German Churches are reacting against this trend in the form of Pro-Life Week, which will be held from 29 April to 6 May, dedicated this year to life […]

“Giovanni Paolo II sapeva come utilizzare la televisione e come far sì che essa coprisse tutta la sua vita pubblica, ma non l’ha mai manipolata e ne ha sempre rispettato gli operatori e i professionisti”. Così mons. John Patrick Foley, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per le comunicazioni sociali, ha introdotto ieri (6 aprile) a Roma, […]

VALLE D'AOSTA

“Promuovere lo sviluppo delle politiche d’integrazione socio-lavorativa delle persone svantaggiate” (disabili fisici, psichici mentali e sensoriali; detenuti, ex detenuti e persone in esecuzione penale esterna; tossicodipendenti ed ex-tossicodipendenti; extracomunitari in difficoltà nei processi di integrazione socio-lavorativa; nomadi; alcolisti ed ex-alcolisti; persone in difficoltà nei processi di integrazione socio–lavorativa e in quanto tali in carico ai […]

“La questione della fragilità vede incrociarsi la teologia, l’antropologia, la metafisica, le scienze dell’uomo. Vi è un’infinita cascata di fragilità. Essa comprende anche le forme invisibili o inespresse che spesso ci passano accanto senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Tutte ci spingono a riflettere in profondità sulla condizione umana”. Così lo psichiatra Eugenio Borgna, che il […]

Continua, nelle 226 diocesi italiane, il cammino di preparazione al IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale, in programma Verona, dal 16 al 20 ottobre, sul tema: “Testimoni di Cristo Risorto, speranza del mondo”.Parola e speranza. “Guardando al IV Convegno ecclesiale nazionale di Verona desideriamo con questa iniziativa servire i giovani e gli adulti cristiani in una più […]

EUROPEAN UNION

“Four billion in fresh money that will go to programmes like Erasmus and support for small and medium businesses”, said JOSEP BORRELL , President of the European Parliament on Wednesday 5 April. During the plenary session of the EP, Borrell announced that agreement on the Financial Prospects 2007/2013 had been reached between European Council, Parliament […]

MONTHLY AGENDA

European and international Christian Churches and institutions 2 1st anniversary of the death of John Paul II . 4 Plenary Assembly of the French Bishops’ Conference (4-7) , at Lourdes. Conference (4-5) promoted by the Council of Europe to launch the three-year programme “Constructing a Europe for and with children”, in Munich. 6 Meeting of […]