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The situation of religious orders in Germany and World Youth Day will be on the agenda to be discussed during the spring plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ conference, to be held at Cloppenburg (Lower Saxony) from 14 to 17 February. At the centre of the meeting will be a study day on the theme […]

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Will negotiations on the entry of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union begin on 17 March 2005? That is the question that is hanging like a sword of Damocles over Croatian society at the present time. Never before, it would seem, has there been a case of a candidate country having so uncertain […]

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From Belarus to Holland, from Poland to Lithuania, from France to Italy, from Russia to the Czech Republic: in almost all European countries there is a television channel of Catholic inspiration that transmits for several hours per day. Some of them directly produce religious programmes transmitted by the national channels. They represent one of the […]

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Ash Wednesday (9 February) marks the opening of Lent, which will see all the churches engaged in various activities and projects, a large part of them with the aim of helping modern man to rediscover the values of prayer, renunciation and sharing. Below we present some of these proposals. BELGIUM: PRAYER, FASTING AND SHARING. “Carnival […]

On behalf of the Irish diocese of Meath, Bishop Michael Smith, who heads the department of communication, finance and planning of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, recently announced a donation of 100,000 dollars for those struck by the tsunami disaster in south-east Asia. This money swells the funds raised by the national collection organized by Trocaire, […]

A new missionary impetus would seem to be emerging in the Netherlands: this is what emerges from a study recently published by the Central Religious Missionary Office (CMBR), with the title “Religious and the missionary movement towards the future”. Dutch religious show themselves to be realistic. In the Western world there is little future – […]

“In a civilized country like Europe it is immoral, unjust and degrading that human beings can be traded. Stem cells can be obtained from sources other than the embryos used in therapy”, said Paul Tully, spokesman of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, one of the most important organizations of the Pro-Life […]

Caritas in the UK is inviting Catholics in England and Wales to place the needs of children and youth at the centre of the electoral campaign for the next elections in the spring. During a meeting with representatives of the three most important parties, Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, held in the British Parliament in […]

The main events involving the Catholic Church, the other Christian Churches and the main institutions of Europe in February 3 Meeting of the Joint Committee of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE) (3-5), at Chartres (France). Meeting of the permanent Council of the Spanish Episcopal […]

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To reach Lisbon, the Union is changing route. On Wednesday 2 February the Commission presented a halfway-stage review and revision of the Agenda approved in the Portuguese capital in 2000. The Lisbon Agenda then set itself the goal of achieving within ten years “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, able to […]