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A more attentive religious assistance to the sick and ever better training for hospital chaplains: that is the hope expressed by Father Vitor Feytor Pinto, national coordinator of the ministry of healthcare for the Portughese Episcopal Conference (CEP), in a communiqué issued on 3 February on the CEP website (www.ecclesia.pt), on the eve of the […]

The Accord between the Republic of Slovenia and the Holy See, a significant step towards regularizing relations between Church and State, was ratified by Parliament on 28 January. The Accord, now awaiting ratification by the Holy See, had been signed on 14 December 2001 by Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel and by the then Vatican […]

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The state of ecumenism in Europe, the contribution of the Christian Churches to the European Convention and the preparation of the third European Ecumenical Assembly: these are some of the issues that the joint committee of the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) tackled during a […]

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The process of the industrial revolution is unstoppable. The dimensions of industrial plant, and of the services that provide services of every type – commercial, financial, transport –, are constantly growing. Ever larger markets, ever greater production, need to be controlled, and this makes possible the lowering of costs thanks to a productivity that is […]

The general secretary of the World Lutheran Federation Ishmael Noko met His Holiness the ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I in Istanbul on 28 January to “reinforce – explained Noko – relations with out Orthodox brothers and sisters”. “The dialogue between us – added the representative of the Lutheran Federation – has already clearly demonstrated […]

A pledge to combat every form of “political, economic and religious” extremism and build a “society in which everyone can live peacefully together”: the declaration is made by the French Protestant Churches in a communiqué issued on 1st February at the end of a national colloquium on extremism held in Strasbourg. “We understand – says […]

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A firm condemnation of the acts of violence that are causing further bloodshed in the Holy Land and an appeal to Israelis and Palestinians to take “seriously” the rule of international law and respect for human dignity: that was the immediate reaction of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to the suicide attack in the […]

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“It was a moving experience to see thousands of youngsters gathered at first in front of Southwark Cathedral, then outside Westminster Abbey, the Anglican cathedral and, finally, inside Westminster Cathedral, mother church of English Catholicism”. That’s how the bishop of Newport Howard Tripp recalls the events of 12 January when the cross of World Youth […]

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2002 and 2003 were characterised by an “alarming increase” in cases of anti-Semitism. Profanation of tombs, anti-Semitic graffiti, physical assaults, insults, threats and the destruction of Jewish property: these are just some of the many racially motivated and anti-Semitic episodes registered in the course of 2002 and the first months of 2003 and highlighted in […]

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What kind of Christianity in response to the challenges posed by the development of religious pluralism? The question was discussed in recent days at a round table promoted in Rome, as part of the second “Meeting on religious publishing in France”, by the Saint-Louis de France Cultural Centre, the Augustinianum Patristic Institute and “Présence du […]