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“There is a universal responsibility for everyone to respect that which is revered as holy…. In defaming the sacred, we are demeaning that which goes to the very core of the human being and so squander the opportunity to truly progress towards the mutual understanding of individuals and peoples”, declares NOËL TREANOR , general secretary […]

21ST WYD

With World Youth Day 2006, the first after Cologne, the countdown begins to WYD in Sidney in 2008. In all the dioceses of Europe, this year’s WYD is being celebrated at the diocesan level, on 9 April, Palm Sunday. The theme chosen by Benedict XVI for the 21st WYD is “Your word is a lamp […]

The European Conference of Missionary Childhood (ECMC) was held in Luxembourg from 26 to 29 March. The meeting, with the title “Children of Abraham-Interfaith dialogue”, was prepared by representatives of the secretariats of the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies for Childhood in the English-speaking countries (Ireland, England and Scotland) in collaboration with Jean Lazarus, President of the […]

The discovery of a different Vienna: that’s the objective of Jugendkirche Wien, the youth organization of the archdiocese of Vienna, which is proposing city tours to the young, accompanied by the former homeless, to visit the places where the homeless had once lived. The social project (called “jung, obdach? los!”) is aimed at secondary school […]

The Spanish bishops have strongly condemned “the affluent society that it no longer able to defend its own children and the unborn child in the womb”. This was the main conclusion of the 86th plenary assembly of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference held in Madrid from 27 to 31 March, during which discussion also focused on […]

Controversies have been ignited in Albania about a bust representing the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The town of Shkoder, historically considered the centre of Albanian Catholics, intends to erect the bust in commemoration of the Blessed, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. But according to reports carried by the APIC international news agency, the […]

A new project for a European network of the Churches against the trafficking of human beings, which will remain in force until 2007 and enjoy close cooperation between government and non-government agencies: that’s the initiative launched during a meeting held in Bucharest (Romania) in recent days and attended by 60 representatives of the churches, governments, […]

Let us preserve ethnic and religious peace in Bulgaria”: that’s the hope that emerged from the first meeting of the heads of all the religious confessions in Bulgaria, promoted by the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. It ended in Sofia in recent days. Bulgarian Catholics also participated in the meeting: namely, the President […]

The plenary Assembly of French bishops ends today; it was opened on 4 April with a moment of prayer in the grotto of Lourdes. Three main questions were on the order of the day. The bishops spoke of the current social crisis and the situation in the metropolitan suburbs. To this end they invited Jean-Louis […]

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

An exchange “on questions relating to intercultural and inter-religious dialogue” and “relations between the Holy See and the Council of Europe”: these were the questions that dominated the private audience granted by Benedict XVI to RENÉ VAN DER LINDEN , Dutch President of the parliamentary Assembly (APCE) of the organization founded in 1949, to which […]