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The second annual festival of the composition of Catholic songs, Cathocréazic, will be held at Tournai in Belgium on 12 November. Numerous Catholic singers and bands, ranging from punk rock to pop folk, from blues to funk and pure rock, will alternate on the stage from 10 in the morning to 11 at night. “It’s […]

Broadcasts of Bulgaria’s first Christian radio station began on 19 October, the day on which the Bulgarian Orthodox Church commemorates the country’s patron saint, St. John of Rila, founder of the famous monastery of Rila, which was also visited by John Paul II. The station is called “Zion”. It was created by the monks of […]

Accusations are being made about TV reality shows in Slovakia and controversy is being stirred between Catholics and Protestants. Catholics in fact are asking for a ban on the transmission of such programmes, while Protestants are inviting reflection on why such programmes are enjoying such enormous success. The bone of contention is the programme “VyVoleni”, […]

“An attitude of dialogue” is the indispensable premise for the closer relations with Judaism requested by the Dutch bishops in their pastoral letter “The joy of learning”, issued by the Bishops’ Conference of the Netherlands on 27 October 2005. This is the bishops’ third intervention on the subject, after those in 1999 and 1995 with […]

Yes to dialogue and no to anti-semitism: that is the crux of the joint message of Jews and Christians issued to mark the 40th Anniversary of “Nostra Aetate”. Exponents of the two faiths met in the seat of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference on 28 October to commemorate Vatican Council II’s declaration on non-Christian religions. The […]

Hundreds of street missionaries will invade the city centre of Lisbon to evangelise through art and beauty: that’s one of the initiatives planned as part of the International Congress of New Evangelization (ICNE) to be held in the Portuguese capital from 5 to 13 November. Since 2002 the ICNE has involved five European capitals: Vienna […]

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The old adage that ‘the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world’ is worth bearing in mind when one reflects upon the process of European construction. Regardless of the radically changed participation of women in the labour market over the past 50 years, women remain the primary carers and educators […]

“Il nostro obiettivo è di lavorare con i giovani, sul piano culturale, alla ricerca della verità sul tema centrale della vita umana. I positivi risultati che abbiamo riscontrato con questo concorso sono molto incoraggianti”.GIORGIO GIBERTINI, presidente dei giovani del Movimento per la vita italiano, ha accompagnato a Strasburgo, da martedì 25 a venerdì 28 ottobre, […]

“Ciò che conta in uno spazio di confronto di questo tipo è anzitutto la ragione. Si tratta di sviluppare un dialogo serrato su temi quali la dignità umana, il diritto alla vita, l’uguaglianza sostanziale tra i soggetti, lo spazio e i limiti della ricerca, la difesa dell’ambiente…”.CARLO CASINI, presidente del Movimento per la vita italiano, […]

“L’Eucaristia: fonte e culmine della vita e della missione della Chiesa”. È stato il tema della XI Assemblea generale ordinaria del Sinodo dei vescovi che si è tenuta in Vaticano dal 2 al 23 ottobre. Tre settimane di lavoro che hanno visto impegnati oltre 250 padri sinodali provenienti da tutto il mondo, proprio a conclusione […]