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“John Paul II is like an older brother who guides us and teaches us from the cross of his illness”, says Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, archbishop of Seville (Spain), who has expressed to SIR his good wishes for the Pope’s health. The cardinal recalls that the whole “Church of Seville is anxious about the health […]

Over 500 delegates will attend the World Ecumenical Conference on “Mission and Evangelism” organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and due to be held in Athens in May. News of the forthcoming event is carried by the Fides international press agency, which reports some of the meeting’s objectives: “providing a forum where Christians […]

“An anarchic way of preaching the Gospel with which we cannot agree”: that’s how Msgr. Georges Marovitch, spokesman of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference and secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Turkey, stigmatises the ‘missionary’ activities recently conducted by some Christian groups in the country. “During the last Christmas holidays – the spokesman explains to SIR […]

There were one million Catholics in Bosnia-Herzegovina before the war that devastated the former Yugoslavia, but their number has now fallen to half a million. Warning of the decline in the number of Catholics was given by Franciscan Father Mijo Dzolan, superior of the province of Bosnia and Srebrena, and reported by the Apic press […]

“Just as Bishop St. Henry arrived for the first time on Finnish territory 850 years ago and just as the diocese of Helsinki was founded 50 years ago, so we have experienced a special moment of union with the universal Church in commemorating our roots”, said Archbishop Jozef Wrobel of Helsinki in a briefing to […]

“We have decided to concentrate on what unites us and not what divides us”, commented EU Commissioner for justice, liberty and security Franco Frattini following the forced exclusion of the reference to the banning of symbols of racial hatred from the text of the framework decision on racism and xenophobia during the meeting of the […]

The furore about the exclusion of Italian from the group of official languages used during the press conferences of the Commission has assumed political dimensions. At the end of November the chief spokesperson of the Commission Françoise Le Bail had made a surprise announcement, saying that it had been decided to limit to three languages […]

There is scepticism about whether the EU objective of reducing extreme poverty in the world by 50% by 2015 will be achieved, and widespread conviction of the importance of aid allocated to trying to curb the advance of Aids in the developing countries. These at least are the findings of a survey conducted by Eurobarometer […]

Re)integration in the labour market; combating racism; business creation; social economy; education and training throughout life; adaptation to change; reconciling family life with professional life; reduction of disparities between the sexes; and integration of asylum seekers: these are the nine thematic sectors of the EU project called “Equal” and aimed at professional re-insertion. Its first […]

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The main events involving the Catholic Church, the other Christian Churches and the main institutions of Europe in March 1 Press Conference for the presentation of the annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board, in Rome – Launch of the “UN Decade for education geared to sustainable development (2005-2014)” 3 Lecture by Christoph Dohmen, […]