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european union" "

“2005 was not an easy year for Europe, but never as today is the European Union so necessary”. Presenting the Commission’s legislative programme and schedule of work for the next twelve months to the European Parliament, the head of the Executive José Manuel Durao Barroso recalled the results recently obtained and listed the problems that […]

The Russian State is preparing a reform that would aim at reinforcing its control over religious communities and combating “foreign religious expansion”. Leaks of the planned reform have so far only appeared in the press. The story has also been carried by the “France-presse” agency. According to the Russian daily Vedomosti, the Minister of Justice […]

christian churches" "

First an appeal not to forget the ecumenical cause, then an invitation to caution: they were respectively made by Queen Elizabeth and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to the members of the 8th General Synod of the Church of England that opened in Westminster on 15 November. The issues on the order of the […]

“After several years of stagnation”, the resumption of theological dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church represents an “encouraging step forward”, also because the commitment to restore “unity in truth and love between the two Churches has become “more than ever” an “urgent priority”, declared His Beatitude Christodoulos, archbishop of Athens and Primate of […]

For the first time, the Christian Churches of France are organizing together an “ecumenical summer university”, which will be held in Provence from 22 to 27 August 2006 for youths aged between 20 and 30. It will have as its theme “Christ our hope: in a plural world, let us trace paths of hope!”. Some […]

Ecumenism" "

“The European Churches are important partners in the dialogue on values within the European Union”, said Jean-Arnold de Clermont, president of the Conference of Christian Churches (CEC), following his meeting with the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso in Brussels on 7 November. De Clermont was accompanied by a CEC delegation. “The President […]

bosnia - herzegovina" "

Ten years have gone by since the signing of the Dayton accord, which on 21 November 1995 put an end to the bloody conflict that convulsed the present-day Bosnia Herzegovina. It was a war that had lasted for four years and been characterised by ferocious operations of “ethnic cleansing”. The new state, born from the […]

SIGNIS, the world Catholic organization for communication, is promoting a film seminar/review on the theme of the protection of childhood, now being held in Bucharest (17-20 November). “Looking at children” is the title of the event, which comprises a dozen films, of which seven have received prizes from ecumenical or SIGNIS juries for their quality […]

A group of academics in Oxford has set up the first British centre for the study of Christianity in China, with the aim of disseminating knowledge in the West of the theology of this enormous continent and contributing to the training of priests for the continuously expanding Chinese churches. “At the present time there are […]

“A deliberate provocation against Catholicism and Christianity”: that’s how Bishop András Veres, secretary of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference, responds to the accusations of Péter Gusztos, exponent of the Democratic Liberal party. During a press conference on 13 November, Gusztos had said that “the feudal privileges guaranteed to the Churches ought to be re-examined”. He was […]