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They broke his arm and then photographed him. It happened in Great Britain, at the Wetherby High School in West Yorkshire, where a group of ten or so fifteen-year-olds surrounded and attacked an eleven-year-old boy and, after breaking his arm, photographed the scene with a mobile phone and then emailed the image to their friends. […]

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“Messenger of peace, promoter of union, master of civilization, and especially herald of the religion of Christ and founder of monastic life in the West”: these are the titles with which Paul VI, in his Brief “Pacis nuntius” of 24 October 1964, praised St. Benedict and hailed him as Patron of Europe. Benedict, writes Paul […]

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UN ATTACK ON EUROPEAN CULTURE. “The Orthodox monasteries of Kosovo, more than elsewhere, have represented through the centuries a point of contact between the cultures of the East and West and the only secure point of reference amid the collapse of the civil institutions; indeed they were even respected by the Ottoman Empire that granted […]

The opening of the negotiations for Turkey’s membership of the European Union continues to be a major argument of debate in the international press. “Does the French debate on Turkey concern Turkey? Or is it not rather a question of France?”, asks Bruno Frappat ( La Croix, 12/10), according to whom there exist “two reasons, […]

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“The struggle for freedom, justice and equality cannot but exact a price. I don’t feel rancour for the many years I spent in prison: I did so for democracy, peace and the co-existence between the Kurdish and Turkish peoples”, said LEYLA ZANA on presenting herself to the European Parliament, meeting in solemn session in Brussels […]

The metropolitan of Zimbabwe Theodore II, 50 years old, is to be the new patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, the second ranking post in the Orthodox hierarchy after the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. He was unanimously elected by the Holy Synod of the patriarchate of Alexandria and will be officially enthroned in the course […]

To say that a new phase in dialogue has begun between Rome and Moscow “would be going a bit too far”. But “a very small step” towards “some cooperation between the two Churches that did not exist before” has been taken. That’s how Vladimir Zelinsky, Russian orthodox priest interprets the declarations made in recent days […]

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Values such as freedom, solidarity, democracy and human rights “must constitute the basis of the European project” and the “Churches play an important role in their promotion in society and with governments”, declared Dutch deputy prime minister Gerrit Zalm, on concluding a meeting with European church representatives in The Hague in recent days. The meeting […]

A point of arrival but also one of departure, the Social Week of Italian Catholics, held in Bologna from 7 to 10 October, represented for the Italian Church and laity the end-result of a long process of gestation, which comprised various seminars, conferences, and round tables, leading up to the publication of a preparatory document […]

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During the Social Week of Italian Catholics held in Bologna, an often-repeated term was “Europe” and constant reference made to a renewed commitment of believers to the wider supranational horizon. As at the corresponding week of French Catholics held in Lille last month, the process of European integration was confirmed as a necessary element of […]