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The backwardness of Europe in comparison with the USA in terms of investments for innovation is considerable and the concrete results of this lack of investment are evident in various fields, beginning with the economy. At the same time, the new “global competitors”, such as China and India, are increasing resources in this direction. The […]

“Due to the growth of refugees and displaced people, the JRS (Jesuit Refugee Service) has developed strategies to serve the most forgotten, in all those places ignored by governments, NGOs and the mass media. While remaining faithful to its original vision, in the process of time the JRS has seen the emergence of an ever-more […]

“Care in the hospices is a human right”, declared Franz Küberl, President of Caritas Austria, on the occasion of World Hospice Day, celebrated on 8 October. Referring to the situation of his country, in which care for the terminally ill in hospices is acquiring ever greater importance, Küberl said that “Austria is on the right […]

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Each year millions of people in the world end up in the hands of criminal racketeers, who kidnap them and sell them into various forms of slavery. In Europe the trafficking of human beings “has assumed alarming proportions” and especially involves women and children, but also men who are subjected to exploitation in work. The […]

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Robert Schuman has disembarked in Eastern Europe; he is beginning to make proselytes in the countries of new accession and in those still waiting outside the doors of the EU. His writings are contributing to the growth of the “European sensibility” and his book “Pour l’Europe”, published in the year of his death, 1963, has […]

An ecumenical centre dedicated to the memory of John Paul II is to be built in Krakow. The city’s new archbishop, Stanislaw Dziwisz, announced it during Sunday mass, broadcast live by Polish state television. According to the country’s media, the project envisages the creation – on a large building site covering several hectares – of […]

The Consistory of Paris and the Catholic Church will celebrate together the 40th anniversary of Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions “Nostra Aetate” on Thursday 20 October. It’s a document that marked a fundamental stage in closer relations between Jews and Christians. This is the first time that French […]

The Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Graz (Austria) have announced that the Second Consultation of the European Theological Faculties will be held in Graz from 6 to 9 July 2006 on the theme “The challenges of theology in a pluralist society”. Some seventy representatives of Catholic, […]

He’s the first black archbishop of the Anglican Church of England. He’s called John Sentamu and has assumed the post of Archbishop of York, the most important see of the Church of England after Canterbury. Born in Uganda 56 years ago, Sentamu is the sixth of 13 children. He was for many years a militant […]

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At the invitation of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, is paying a visit to Russia from 15 to 19 October. The archbishop is accompanied by Régine Maire, delegate of the French Bishops’ Conference for ecumenism. As reported by the diocese of Lyon, the archbishop spent Sunday 16 October […]