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“Don’t abandon your Christian roots! Only thus will you be able to bring to the world and to Europe the cultural richness of your history”: That’s the appeal made by the Pope to the Spanish people, in the course of the mass he celebrated in the Plaza de Colòn in Madrid on 4 May. During […]

Germany" "

“You shall be a blessing” is the slogan of the Oecumenische Kirchentag, the Ecumenical Church Congress jointly organized by German Catholics and Protestants, with the collaboration of other Christian confessions, and to be held in Berlin from 28 May to 1st June 2003. The Congress can be regarded as one of the major ecumenical efforts […]

university" "

There will be over a thousand participants at the European Symposium to be held in Rome from 17 to 20 July on the theme “University and Church in Europe”. The delegates – students, professors, bishops, persons involved in various capacities in university pastoral care – will split into 19 study groups to reflect on four […]

“Christian faith is the richest heritage from which the European peoples can draw to achieve their spiritual, economic and social progress”. So said John Paul II , on receiving in audience the participants in the meeting on “Priests and catechesis in Europe” on 8 May. According to the Pope, “catechesis in the family, in the […]

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The priest isn’t a mere “bureaucrat”: he has the “power” of the Word… Convinced of this is Bishop Michel Dubost of Evry in France. At a meeting of bishops and national representatives of catechesis in Europe promoted by the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe on “Priests and Catechesis in Europe”, which ended in […]

The 21st annual meeting of the general secretaries of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe will be held in Berlin from 24 to 28 May. On the agenda: the organization of the secretariat of an Episcopal Conference and relations between it and spirituality, the mass media, culture and the institutions. Other issues in the foreground of […]

The 5th Meeting of delegates for the environment of the European Bishops’ Conferences, promoted by the Council of European episcopates (CCEE), in collaboration with the diocese of Wroclaw, will be held at Wroclaw, in Poland, from 15 to 18 May. Dedicated to formation in respect for nature, it will be attended by some sixty delegates […]

Comece-CCEE" "

“A spiritual journey that recalls the sense of European unification” through which the nations of the continent “are united in the EU and, at the same time, open themselves to the world”. That’s how the bishops of COMECE (Commission of the episcopates of the European Union) and Archbishop Juliàn Barrio Barrio of Santiago de Compostella […]

EU - USA - UNO" "

Europe’s absence in the Iraqi conflict, the uncertainty about the role of the Union in the reconstruction of Iraq and the re-establishment of fruitful relations with the USA. We discussed these questions with Kostas Grammatikakis, journalist and president of the European Association of Editors of the Regional and Local Press . In the Iraqi conflict […]

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Following heated discussions, damaging leaks and last-minute revisions which risked compromising the very work of the Convention on the future of Europe (cf. SirEurope no. 31/2003), the Presidium of the Convention presented its “Draft articles for Title IV of the first part of the Constitution” to the plenary assembly at the end of April. The […]