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The streets thronged with pedestrians, and wrested from their usual drabness; the headquarters of the European institutions taken by storm by teenagers in t-shirts and families with prams and coloured balloons. And then the stalls displaying handicrafts, local cheeses, beer; gipsy music and Iberian dances; traditional costumes of the Baltic Republics; flags of every nation… […]

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Welcome home – your home just as much as ours! Here we are finally together at home, in re-found unity. Truly, it’s a great opportunity to sing the European anthem: “Oh joy!”, in this month of May 2004, which marks the end of Yalta and the second fall of the iron curtain. For months now […]

“A sign of hope”: that’s the judgement on EU enlargement expressed by the Council of the German Evangelic Church (EKD) in Hanover on 29 April. “What unites the peoples of Europe is stronger than what it is that divides them”, continues the communiqué. The date of 1st May is hailed as a “further step towards […]

With the publication of the document “Mary: grace and hope in Christ”, dialogue between the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church has reached a “significant milestone”. So said the Rev. Gregory Cameron, director of Ecumenical Affairs of the Anglican Communion in a report presented last month (but only made known in recent days) to the […]

The department of foreign relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow held the fourth meeting of the Russo-Iranian Commission on dialogue between Islam and Orthodoxy in Moscow from 26 to 29 April. The delegation of theologians of the Islamic Republic of Iran was led by ayatollah Mahmoud Muhammadi Iraqi. In the days before the meeting, from […]

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Relations between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Patriarchate of Constantinople have become ever more difficult. The reason for the dissension is the question of control over the metropolitan churches in the region of Thrace. According to an accord signed in 1928, from a canonical point of view the dioceses in question form part of […]

Pro-Life Day was celebrated on Sunday 25 April in Lithuania. The message published by the Lithuanian bishops to mark the occasion expresses their “sorrow about the constant demographic crisis and the lack of an appropriate state policy in favour of the family”. The bishops also declare that “the deepest problem is the devaluation of the […]

“The mission of the lay members of the Church is to create a new Europe. If we enter Europe, it is to bring our faith and our values”: so said Msgr. Peter Stefan Zurbriggen, Nuncio Apostolic in the Baltic States, in addressing the 1st Conference of the Catholic laity in Latvia, which ended a few […]

Of the young people interviewed by the Santa María Foundation in its Jóvenes 2000 survey on religion and youth in Spain, 60.2% declared that “the Catholic Church helps the poor and the oppressed, while 86.4% think that “the Catholic Church is living in the past”. The picture that emerges from the survey is fairly worrying […]

The Iraqi crisis continues to monopolise the attention of the main international dailies, after the ultimatum given to Italy by the kidnappers of the three Italian hostages. The video shown on the Arab TV channel “Al Arabya” is commented on, for example, by Le Monde of 28/4, in an article in which Jean-Jacques Bozonnet discusses […]