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“Ecumenism is a priority, and we Catholics too must conduct an examination of conscience; we must be self-critical and self-penitent”, said Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, on receiving an honorary degree from the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid on 30 March. The cardinal said he was hopeful about how […]

The recent legislative proposal presented to the Senate of the Land of Berlin-Brandenburg on the possible general banning of religious symbols in public offices – and hence in state schools – has evoked strong reactions and various pronouncements by exponents of the German Churches. In a press release issued on 1st April, the chairman of […]

Four ecumenical organizations have published a “brief document for the Churches” in preparation for the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament (10-13 June 2004). The document recalls the questions that are at the centre of the commitment of the Churches and the agencies linked to the Churches in Europe: they include unemployment, social exclusion, human […]

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The president of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, has just concluded an official three-day visit to the ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and his Holiness Bartholomew I (31 March-2 April). Accompanied by a delegation of the European Churches, he was also able to meet with members of the Interconfessional Affairs […]

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“A great event, that marks for us the return to a history no longer suffered, but freely created”: that’s how Stefan Delureanu , authoritative Romanian Catholic exponent, defines the “great step” of EU enlargement to Eastern Europe. Historian at the University of Bucharest, student of the Risorgimento at the continental level, great expert on the […]

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After Cyprus, Poland, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (cf. Sir nos.14-15-18-20-22-23-24/2004), now it’s the turn of Lithuania to tell of its hopes and fears as it prepares for imminent entry into the European Union on 1st May. Lithuania has a population of 3,700,000 inhabitants, of whom 72% are Catholics, 2.5% Orthodox and […]

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“Participation in the European elections between 10 and 13 June” is “a vital act of European civic spirit”; “the responsible exercise” of the right to vote “will express our solidarity with the European project”. NOËL TREANOR, general secretary of the Commission of the episcopates of the European Union (COMECE) and director of “Europe Infos”, monthly […]

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Antisemitism is growing in Europe. The Report of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), presented in Strasbourg on 31 March, in fact attests to a growth of episodes of violence committed against Jews and Jewish communities present in the territory of the Union. The situation has particularly deteriorated in the last two […]

“La battaglia in Iraq si consuma su due fronti”, è il titolo di apertura dell’ Herald Tribune (7/4). A proposito dei nuovi scontri in Iraq, che hanno provocato decine di vittime sia tra le forze della coalizione che tra gli iracheni sciiti, il quotidiano americano fa notare che “i comandanti americani hanno giurato di sradicare […]

“Sogno di piantare davanti alla cattedrale un grande giardino, dove voi giovani possiate radunarvi la sera. Dove ragazzi e ragazze di culture diverse possano ospitare la differenza come un dono e una responsabilità. Dove voi giovani, assieme agli adulti, agli anziani e ai bambini della città, possiate realizzare progetti di giustizia, di bellezza, di fraternità”. […]