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“The shortest way to achieve peace in Iraq passes through Jerusalem” and “the Churches must dedicate themselves to the Palestinians just as they did for South Africa”. So said the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, Riah Abu El-Assal, in recent days, recalling that since the beginning of the Intifada over 800 Israelis and over 2,400 Palestinians […]

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The “Church and Society” Commission of the Conference of European Churches (KEK, an organization representing 126 Churches of Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic tradition) recently approved a document with the title “Genetic screening and predictive medicine”. Expressing satisfaction about the progress achieved by medical genetics, the document focuses attention on the “real difficulties” that […]

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The tragedy of child soldiers (300,000) at the ACP-EU assembly. In the 1990s, over two million children died due to armed conflicts, and over a million remained orphaned; over six million were seriously injured or permanently disabled; and over ten million suffered serious psychological traumas. Meanwhile the number of child victims of war continues to […]

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“Among the numerous victims of war, there is one that does not arouse sufficient concern: the truth. Its injuries do not heal rapidly, due to the deliberate disinformation, propaganda and manipulation that condition trust between public and media”. The point is made in the last number of “Signis Media”, the bi-monthly journal of Signis, the […]

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“Three billion human beings in our world live on less than two dollars per day, of whom one billion, i.e. 23% of the world population, survive on just one dollar”: the fact was reported by Juan Somavia, director general of the International Labour Office, to the “Second European round table on poverty and social exclusion: […]

A Festival of Biblical Theatre with 19 plays, 35 actors, 2 exhibitions and 2 round tables on this theme: it’s the second year of this event, held in recent days (until 23 October) in France, at Clermont-Ferrand, Ambert, Issoire and Chatel-Guyon. It was begun on the initiative of the “Culture and Communication” association. The Reformed […]

The publication of a “White Paper” by hospital chaplains is an idea formulated during a meeting held in Paris in recent days. It brought together some fifty educators and theologians of the national hospital chaplaincy (Aumônerie nationale des hôpitaux). “To whom is formation addressed? What are its objectives and programmes? What place should be given […]

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“The modern economy is necessarily financial. But money, as an indispensable means, is so fascinating that it can become a tyranny”: so says Michel Camdessus, former director of the International Monetary Fund and now chairman of the Social Weeks of French Catholics. His reflections on money are contained in an article written for the bi-monthly […]

Msgr. Hugo Unterberger is the parish priest of the church of Sankt Elisabeth, in Vienna’s 4th district. It’s not a very big parish, situated close to the Sudbahnhof in one of the districts, once heavily populated, built in the second half of the nineteenth century, that surround the city centre of Vienna like a ring. […]

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“The Catholic community in Turkey is a tiny minority, some 32,000 faithful out of a total population of some 70 million, but its activities are observed with great interest. It is a multicultural community, with good ecumenical relations. It also seeks dialogue with the Moslem majority, before which Christians are called to express themselves with […]