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European Constitution, dialogue between Christian churches, justice, and relations with the third world: these are the key issues that the Anglican General Synod, the decision-making body that presides over the Church of England, founded by Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, will discuss at York from 9 to 13 July. Also on the agenda is […]

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Being “witnesses of the love of a merciful and omnipotent God” to a world that continues to be characterized by hatred and destruction: that’s the hope expressed by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, President of the Austrian Episcopal Conference and Archbishop of Vienna on the occasion of a reception held in honour of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I […]

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While the meeting was taking place between Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I and John Paul II in Rome, seat of the successor of Peter, on 29 June, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic meeting between Athenagoras and Paul VI, another historic event – by now traditional in the life of the Church – […]

The Russian Catholic weekly “Svet Evangelia” (Light of the Gospel) has won the Titus Brandsma Award 2004, awarded by the International Catholic Union of the Press (Icup). The prize-giving ceremony will be held during the Icup World Congress, due to be held in Bangkok (Thailand) from 9 to 17 October 2004. In notifying the editor […]

The Swiss bishops have extended warm thanks to all those who contributed to the success of the first national meeting of Catholic youth and the Pope’s recent visit. “This event will undoubtedly prove fruitful for the Church in Switzerland”, says a communiqué issued at the end of the 264th ordinary Assembly of the Swiss bishops, […]

Over one thousand youth from all over Europe will arrive in Genoa in the week from 5 to 11 July. The most numerous group will be that of the Ukrainians, some 700 of them. They will be joined by numerous Poles, Slovaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Russians, Romanians, Portuguese, Austrians, Belgians, Germans and Finns. The youngsters will […]

The Day of Responsibility on the Roads is celebrated in Spain on 4 July. The Spanish Church, in the form of a message issued by Msgr. Carmelo Echenagusìa Uribe, bishop in charge of the highway apostolate, is also joining with the many organizations and individuals who are working to improve the situation in this field. […]

“We need prayer” is the title of the letter that the metropolitan archbishop of Bucharest, Ioan Robu, has addressed to the faithful for the summer. Recalling the intense moment of prayer experienced by the Catholic community of Bucharest on the occasion of the arrival of the relics of St. Anthony of Padua in the archdiocese, […]

The Press Room of the Holy See has confirmed John Paul II’s visit to Lourdes on 14 and 15 August 2004. Msgr. Jacques Perrier, bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, and Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, president of the French Bishops’ Conference, had invited the Pope to go on pilgrimage to Lourdes, on the occasion of the 150th […]

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Holding training seminars for Catholic and non-Catholic journalists; supporting the reorganization of press offices in the Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Europe; promoting a meeting between the webmasters of the sites of the Episcopal Conferences, and intensifying the exchange of photographs, materials and documents: these are just some of the proposals made during the three days […]