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Lenten initiatives are widespread throughout the country and all of them characterised by charity and renunciation. In particular, explains the spokesman of the Bishops’ conference, Msgr. Marian Gavenda, “on the first Sunday of Lent we launched a fund-raising campaign to help alleviate the needs of the poorest families. The sum collected will be divided between […]

A brochure with spiritual guidance about how to live to the best the period of Lent and prepare ourselves “worthily” to celebrate Easter: that’s the initiative promoted for Lent by Father Umberto Barato, Latin vicar of Nicosia. “In my parish – he says – I am promoting meetings especially on Sunday, the day on which […]

“Stations” in churches and parishes, meditations and actions of charity: Lent in the dioceses of Greece is characterized by a series of meetings between “pastors” and “local churches”, explains the general secretary of the Greek bishops, Msgr. Nikolaos Printezis, archbishop of Naxos-Tinou. “I my diocese I will make a visit (station) to the 30 parishes […]

A Lent characterised by prayer and charity began in Turkey on Ash Wednesday, 1st March. “To mark the occasion – explained Msgr. Georges Marovitch, spokesman of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference (TBC), in a briefing to SIR – all the clergy and faithful of Istanbul met in the cathedral to celebrate mass and a penitential liturgy […]

The presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South-Eastern Europe, accompanied by experts, will meet for their sixth meeting in the island of Corfu (Greece) from 3 to 5 March. Six Bishops’ Conferences are represented: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the international Bishops’ Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius (Serbia and Montenegro – […]

“At the present stage of European construction, a debate on the future of the Eu, its guidelines and objectives is essential”. That is the view of Comece (Commission of the episcopates of the European Community, in expressing its intention to “make a vital contribution to this debate through the revival of its summer university”. The […]

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“Faith communities have an inherently important and potent role to play, not only by their own contributions towards good global governance, but also in holding governments and international institutions to account”. That’s one of the conclusions of the document of Comece (Commission of episcopates of the European Community) “Global Governance Assessment 2005: one more step […]

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It seems that everything corresponds to what Samuel P. Huntington called “the clash of civilizations”. Powder kegs are exploding just about everywhere, at the slightest provocation. The satirical cartoons of Mahomet were wholly out of place – we say so again – but the reactions are disproportionate. Political recovery is urgent and clear to us […]

La diagnosi genetica preimpiantatoria (dgp) spesso “non è fatta per curare ma per eliminare gli embrioni malati”. Il grido di allarme è venuto dagli esperti riuniti in questi giorni in Vaticano, per il convegno internazionale su “L’embrione umano nella fase del preimpianto”.Eugenismo, clonazione umana, bambini “à la carte”, invasività delle nuove tecniche di screening prenatale […]

“Le aggregazioni laicali cattoliche intendono offrire al cammino della Chiesa italiana in preparazione al Convegno ecclesiale decennale di Verona un contributo di testimonianza, sensibilità ed esperienze”.Lo ha detto Gino Doveri, segretario generale della Cnal (Consulta nazionale delle aggregazioni laicali), illustrando il risultato dei lavori dei cinque seminari, uno per ciascuno degli “ambiti” del Convegno di […]