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The traditional “World Day of Prayer” will be celebrated on 5 March. Promoted and supported by Christian women throughout the world, the Day has become one of the most important annual ecumenical events. “It shows – says a press release – that women, beyond their differences of confession and religious expression, want first and foremost […]

The Orthodox Church of Greece has decided to put an end to a dispute that has for several months placed it in opposition to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on the control of bishops in the north of the country. According to religious sources, the Holy Synod, supreme collegial organ of the Greek Church, approved […]

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“A year of hope and sorrows for the archbishop”. That’s how the Information Service of the Anglican Communion headlined a report on the first anniversary of Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury. The ceremony of installation was in fact held on 27 February 2003. In an interview, Williams traced the most important and demanding stages […]

The youth who have enrolled in the “Mosaic of peace”, an inter-religious meeting promoted by Archbishop Angelo Massafra in the diocese of Scutari will arrive from Albania, Kossovo, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey. They will be given accommodation in the “Village of peace” at Tarabosh. Organized by the Catholic diocese but […]

“Suffering is the exclusive preserve of no one, and each religion has something to say on the matter”. The problem of suffering was discussed during the 3rd inter-religious meeting held in Barcelona from 2 to 4 March on the initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy of Catalonia, the episcopal delegation for the apostolate of healthcare […]

“We don’t ask for privileges but for real religious freedom as promised in the Constitution. Today the Greek Catholic Church is living in a situation of religious toleration which is not the same thing”. That is what the Catholic archbishop of Athens and president of the Greek Episcopal Conference, Msgr. Nikolaos Foskolos, is asking of […]

“Mariazell must become a place where pilgrims of different nationalities give a sign of unity, reconciliation and conviviality”, declared Father Heinrich Schnuderl, director of the office for pastoral ministry of Steiermark (the region in which the Marian sanctuary is situated), in the course of a press conference held in Graz in recent days. During the […]

The president of the French Episcopal Conference paid a personal visit to President Jacques Chirac to express to him the “reservations” of the Catholic Church about the draft law on secularism now before Parliament and the suppression of the Monday following Pentecost as a public holiday. Accompanied by Msgr. Georges Pontier and by Msgr. Stanislas […]

The Rosary recited by the Pope will be the culminating moment of the second European University Day on 13 May, promoted by CCEE, COMECE and the office for university apostolate of the Vicariate of Rome. The novelty of this year’s “Marian Vigil” planned to be held in the Vatican (Paul VI Hall, at 17.45) is […]

The Swiss bishops have expressed an “altogether positive” evaluation of the bill on combating violence in the family and in the couple recently presented in the Swiss Parliament. In a letter to federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, Bishop Amédée Grab and Abbé Agnell Rickenmann, respectively president and general secretary of the Swiss Episcopal Conference, have complimented […]