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It was supposed to be the week of the European tour of Mamhoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. But the assault of the Israeli army on the prison in Jericho and the violent popular reactions in the Gaza Strip forced the Palestinian leader to interrupt his trip. Nor were “tough issues” lacking in Strasbourg, […]

Although the Churches are discussing the possibility of celebrating Easter on the same day, differences in the liturgical calendar still persist. Thus, while Catholics and Angelicans began Lent with the celebration of Ash Wednesday on 1st March, the Orthodox did so a week later, on 6 March. As a consequence the dates for Easter also […]

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued no official communiqué on the death of the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, although prayers were said for his soul in several of its churches. The point was made by a source of the Patriarchate of Moscow in a briefing to the Russian press agency Interfax adding that not even […]

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Five new Evangelical Churches – including the Seventh Day Adventists – have become effective members of the Protestant Federation of France (FPF). It was the general assembly of the FPF (11-12 March) that voted to accept their final membership after a process begun in 2000. The last church to join the Federation was in 2003: […]

Measured by the yardstick of party membership, political commitment in France seems doubly fragile: weaker than its European equivalents, they too in decline, and weaker than other forms of collective engagement. Between 1970 and the end of the 1990s, France was the European country that experienced the highest number of those abandoning membership of the […]

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“Today, now that changes in educational science are particularly rapid, it is indispensable periodically to review the original vocation of Catholic teaching in the country and its modes of response”, declares the archbishop of Marseilles, Cardinal Bernard Panafieu, proposing, ten years after the approval of the statutes currently in force for Catholic teaching in France, […]

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For the first time, the German bishops met in Berlin for their spring plenary. During their assembly, held from 6 to 9 March, the 70 bishops discussed various topical questions, including youth ministry, the German Katholikentag (Catholic Congress), the pastoral care of prison inmates, religious education in schools, even the role of the Church during […]

This year’s feast of St. Patrick, patron of Ireland, that the Irish Catholic community of Glasgow will celebrate today, 17 March, will be very special. In fact, Cardinal Desmond Connel, archbishop emeritus of Dublin, and former primate of Ireland, is awaited in the city to celebrate a solemn liturgy in the church of St. Patrick. […]

Due settimane dedicate interamente al commercio equo e solidale. E’ l’iniziativa lanciata da quindici diocesi cattoliche di Inghilterra e Galles che a partire da lunedì 13 marzo promuoveranno piccoli mercati e momenti di degustazione con al centro prodotti provenienti dai Paesi in via di sviluppo. Alcune di queste chiese locali, Southampton, Portsmouth, Arundel-Brighton, Brentwood, Hexham-Newcastle […]

Anche la comunità degli studenti di Sofia ha seguito il collegamento via satellite con il Papa nell’Aula Paolo VI di Roma e con gli altri centri studenteschi europei di Monaco, Dublino, Lione, San Pietroburgo e Friburgo, che si è svolto l’11 marzo. Dal 15 dicembre del 2005 l’icona Maria sedes sapientiae, consegnata nel 2000 dal […]