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In the run up to the World Day of Social Communications (8 May) an appeal to “generously support” the Catholic media, in particular the new project of the “Catholic Communication Network” (CCN), the office that coordinates the social communications of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has been made by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, […]

On 7 May the diocese of Groningen is holding an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs of the 20th century who lost their life on account of their faith. Many of them were victims either of the Nazi or of the Communist regime. The day of commemoration will begin with an ecumenical prayer service with the […]

The 5th Assembly of the Christian European Network for the Environment (CENE) is being held in Basel, in Switzerland, from 3 to 8 May. Founded in 1998 following the recommendations of the 2nd European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz, the Network brings together Christians involved in the ecological field belonging to the various confessions (Protestants, Orthodox, […]

In a homily pronounced on Saturday 30 April, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Brussels and primate of the Belgian Church, looked back at the “historic” moments of the election Pope Benedict XVI. “Fifteen days ago – he said – a man was there at the altar of the Sistine Chapel, behind him Michelangelo’s huge fresco […]

Polish Catholics gathered together in prayer on 2 May, a month after the death of John Paul II. Masses and prayer meetings for the soul of Karol Wojtyla were celebrated in the basilicas and parish churches of Poland, especially in the evening, around 10.37 pm, the time when the pontiff passed away exactly a month […]

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The European Conference of Churches (Cec) and the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (Ccee) have written a letter to all the Churches and Bishops’ Conferences of Europe to announce the Third European Ecumenical Assembly, which will be held in Sibiu, in Romania, from 4 to 8 September 2007. The theme: “The Light of Christ shines […]

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The election of Benedict XVI was initially received in Turkey with misgivings and with openly hostile headlines in the press, of the type: “An enemy of Turkey has been elected”, or with some acrimony (stressing his membership of the Hitler-Jugend as a boy). This attitude is to be seen against the background of an interview […]

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Pierre de Charentenay , caporedattore della rivista francese Etudes, presenta brevemente la costituzione europea e offre le ragioni per un sì al referendum sulla sua approvazione. Il Trattato costituzionale europeo, sottoposto in questi mesi alla ratifica da parte dei singoli stati membri dell’Ue, è un testo politico per l’Unione che, senza infrangere il principio di […]

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I principali avvenimenti che interesseranno la Chiesa cattolica, le altre Chiese cristiane e le principali istituzioni europee nel mese di maggio 1 1º anniversario dell’ingresso ufficiale nell’Unione europea di dieci nuovi Paesi membri , Polonia, Ungheria, Repubblica Ceca, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Lituania, Lettonia, Estonia , Estonia, Cipro e Malta – Giornata di sensibilizzazione e di raccolta […]

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A un anno dall’allargamento da 15 a 25 Stati membri (1° maggio 2004), l’Unione europea continua a ingrandirsi, fa i conti con alcune questioni strettamente legate al futuro dell’integrazione (ratifica del Trattato costituzionale, prospettive finanziarie 2007/2013), mentre, in parallelo, procede la vita “ordinaria” delle istituzioni dei Venticinque. Romania e Bulgaria verso l’Ue. Lunedì 25 aprile […]