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The European Commission has allocated 3 million Euros from the European Fund for Development, aimed at covering the costs of transport, board and lodging for the repatriation of almost 50,000 Angolan refugees in Namibia and Zambia. The sum is added to the over 4.5 million Euros allocated by the EU humanitarian office for Angolan refugees […]

The round of negotiations between the European Union and the area of the Pacific belonging to the ACP group (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) opened at Nadi in the Fiji Islands on 10 September. The objective – […]

The English and Irish Christian Churches – meeting in the ecumenical organization “Churches together in Britain and Ireland” – celebrated “Racial Justice Sunday” on 12 September. This is an annual event, held on the second Sunday in September, to promote reflection in the Christian communities on the “diversity of the human family” and to pray […]

The report drawn up by the “Commission on Communion” – better known as the “Lambeth Commission” – that was given the task of studying for a year the most important causes of the divisions that have arisen within the Communion, is due to be published in London on 18 October. The Commission – headed by […]

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The Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Petros VII, died on Saturday 11 September, in an accident involving the helicopter in which he was travelling with 16 other people, over the Aegean Sea. Second-ranking in the Orthodox hierarchy after the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Petros VII was a personality highly esteemed in […]

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So far 85 leading personalities from the religious, political and cultural world of Europe and 4000 enrolments have been registered for the 15-day event, which will comprise round tables, thematic meetings, exchanges, and six forums on the burning issues of the European Union: family, peace, freedom, democracy, economy and poverty. This year the Semaines sociales […]

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In Europe the situation of prisons, and other structures in which people are deprived of freedom by order of the authorities (centres for immigrants, police stations, psychiatric hospitals…), “is worrying and difficult”, also because “the fear of terrorism exacerbates everything”. In the 45 countries of the Council of Europe some 1,900,000 people are deprived of […]

“Holy Father, we are a representative group of European youth. We have thought about, written and now deliver to you this message of the Christian youth of Europe. It’s a brief act of commitment that expresses our feelings, both ideal and concrete, as citizens and believers of the European community. We have discussed various challenges […]

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It’s called “El compromiso” and is the European charter drafted by the Christian youth of Europe, on 7 August, at the end of their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was presented to JOHN PAUL Ii on 2 September. “Don’t be ashamed of the Gospel, – the Pope said, addressing himself to youth – and […]

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“The model of society in which religion and culture coincided is in crisis today. Many factors have determined this crisis: the development of democracy, awareness of individual liberties… In a society thus determined, the expression of a person’s own faith can only happen through a conscious choice. Yet the diversity that places believers and non-believers […]