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The government of Lithuania has allocated 2.875 million litas ( c.0.8 million euros) to the country’s 12 traditional Churches and religious communities and centres in recent weeks. One million litas was allocated to the construction of a spiritual centre at Siluva, in the Catholic archdiocese of Kaunas, and 144,000 litas to the Lithuanian Orthodox archdiocese. […]

From September Spanish schools will for the first time have teachers of Moslem religion for Moslem pupils, whose numbers are growing. “It seems to me logical and sensible that this should be so”, Carlos de Francisco Vega, head of the Secretariat of Interconfessional Relations of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, explained to SIR. According to De […]

The Irish bishops have expressed appreciation and satisfaction about the decision by the Irish government to increase funds for emigrants abroad. Father Alan Hilliard, director of the episcopal Commission for Emigrants, says he is “particularly happy” about the measure, as also about the establishment “of a unit to coordinate aid to the Irish abroad, which […]

“The Eucharist: source and culmination of mission” is the theme of the European meeting of youth groups of eucharistic adoration due to be held in Rome from 6 to 10 October on the initiative of the Youth Pastoral Service of the vicariate of Rome. “The aim of the meeting – explains Father Mauro Parmeggiani, director […]

The recent inaugural session of the new European Parliament has led Italy’s Emmaus association to repeat a provocative proposal already made by its international president Renzo Fior and the Abbé Pierre at the international Solidarity Fair in Paris on 13 June: “Let MEPs spend at least ten days of experience and formation in one of […]

Launching themselves by parachute from an altitude of over 4267 metres to raise funds for the recovery of an ancient abbey in England: protagonists of this improbable venture are not professional parachutists, but two Benedictine monks, Father Francis Baird and Father Martin McLaughlin, respectively abbot and treasurer of the medieval abbey of Prinknash, in Gloucestershire, […]

The vicar of Istanbul, Father Lorenzo Piretto, has expressed “condolences and solidarity with the families of the 36 victims and 79 injured” of the railway disaster of 22 July on the Istanbul-Ankara line. “I learnt of the tragedy from the news – he told SIR –; now we wait to find out its causes. From […]

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Following EU enlargement, a million and half new European citizens are Romanies. They live in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. And with the future entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the EU their number is set to increase to some 4 million. In total there are some 9 million gipsies in Europe, present in […]

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On the vigil of Pentecost 2004, Bishop Pierre Raffin of Metz (France) officially closed the diocesan phase of the process of beatification of Robert Schuman, “father of Europe”. The canonical inquiry was instigated by a group of French, German and Italian laypeople, members of the association “St Benedict, patron of Europe”. The process opened on […]

La risoluzione dell’Onu, che chiede a Israele di smantellare il “muro” in Cisgiordania, monopolizza l’attenzione dei principali quotidiani internazionali, impegnati a riflettere sulle conseguenze di tale veto all’interno dei rapporti tra Stati Uniti ed Unione europea. “Gli europei non siano più neutrali”. Secondo il pezzo di apertura dell’ Herald Tribune (22/7), firmato da Warren Hoge, […]