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“The media cannot be limited to purely commercial considerations”: so say the European bishops with special responsibilities for social communications, meeting in the European Episcopal Committee for the Media (EECM), an organ of the CCEE, the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe. During their meeting in Rome on 12-13 March – but only reported […]

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“Per crucem ad lucem”: with this slogan, the World Youth Day (WYD) Cross began its pilgrimage through Bulgaria on 10 March by meeting young Catholics. The starting point was in Plovdiv – centre of the diocese of Sofia-Plovdiv – with a meeting that filled the cathedral of the city. “The arrival of the WYD Cross […]

Bishop Klaus Küng of Feldkirch (Austria) has appealed for a “breakthrough in society in favour of marriage and the family” (see also the report on another page in this number). The bishop was speaking at Brno (Czech Republic) on 12 May, during the sixth symposium on the demographic trend in Europe, organized as part of […]

“The Katholikentag of the Catholics of Central Europe (MEKT) is a clear sign of the fact that in the new Europe, communion is stronger than all the conflicts of the past and the present”: so declared Cardinal CHRISTOPH SCHÖNBORN , president of the Austrian Episcopal Conference, which met for its spring assembly in Seggauberg in […]

“Wars are not the only cause of terrorism. But they are a pretext for it, or one of the pretexts”. Referring to the request of President Jacques Chirac, during his recent meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, to “put an end to conflicts, fertile breeding ground for terrorism”, Bruno Frappat, in his editorial in La […]

The European Union has allocated 50 million euros for the funding of the Daphne programme to combat paedophilia and the sexual abuse of children, adolescents and women for the five-year period 2004-2008. Together with the “framework decision on the campaign against the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography”, adopted by the European Council in […]

At the world level there are still many governments (such as the USA and Russia) that hesitate to accept the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and receive them into their national legislation. In the European Union, by contrast, a decision of the European Parliament and Council […]

The European Commission has approved the communication “Citizenship in action”, which represents the basis of the reform for EU youth, culture 2000 and media plus programmes from 2007 on. The aim of the youth programme – open to the age group 13-30 – is to reinforce the actions of the European volunteer services also beyond […]

With the intention of defining new guidelines in the sector of formal and informal learning, the Commission recently adopted a communication with the title “The new generation of education and training programmes 2007-2013”. The document of the EU Executive is aimed at providing guidelines for the reform of EU programmes currently in force (Socrates – […]

Representatives of the Christian Churches in Europe met the Irish prime minister and current President of the European Council, Bertie Ahern, in Dublin on 11 March. The delegation of the European Churches was composed of the representatives of the “Church and Society” Commission of the CEC and of COMECE. The representatives of the Christian Churches […]