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A directive from Swiss bishops to prevent sexual abuse in pastoral care; participation in a national march against paedophilia; the organisation, for next year, of “Swiss WYDs”; and the creation of the “Suisse Solidaire Foundation” are some of the decisions taken in the course of the 257th ordinary assembly of Swiss bishops which closed yesterday, […]

Romania" "

Romania is like a “cultural meeting point between the Latin and Slav-Orthodox worlds and an example of the fertile coexistence of different religious confessions in a continuous, if not always easy and immediate, dialogue”. The religious history of Romania is being discussed during the 24th European Week organised by the Paul VI Ambrosian Foundation and […]

Greece" "

In receiving Christos Botzios, the new Greek ambassador to the Holy See, at Castelgandolfo on 2 September, John Paul II reiterated the proposal for “a lasting truce of all violence” for the occasion of the Olympic Games, due to take place in Athens in 2004. The ambassador received the invitation, and highlighted that “great attention” […]

Emigration" "

“Analysing the situation of Italian Catholic missions in Europe in order to identify new priorities”. This is the aim of the second meeting of national European delegates of the CEI Migrantes Foundation which opened today, 5 September, at Yverdon (Switzerland) and will run until next Sunday, 8 September. During the meeting, its organisers explain, “reflection […]

Economic damage, hardship for thousands of families, the expense of reconstruction. These are some of the consequences of the terrible floods that devastated central and eastern Europe in the middle of August. The Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Russia were the countries hardest hit with numerous deaths and tens of thousands of people homeless or […]

In Austria, August’s floods caused incalculable damage. Aid organisations, religious and non-religious, have formed a single network to distribute the funds collected via Austrian radio and television (ORF). Since the first days of the catastrophe, Card. Christoph Schönborn , president of the Austrian Episcopal Conference and archbishop of Vienna, has released numerous declarations expressing his […]

Floods" "

Deaths, billions of euros of damage, thousands left homeless: the results of August’s flooding in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia are still unclear, but it is certain that it will be years before the situation goes back to being as it was before the disaster. In the wake of the floods that devastated […]

Nietzsche, Marx and Freud thought the twentieth century would mark the death of God. Malraux, on the other hand, predicted the re-emergence of the religious question in the twenty first century. At the beginning of this, third millennium, God is returning: what will be the form of this “reprise”? That of the kamikaze bombers of […]

“We have before us a new page in history, and it is up to us to write it”. Rabbi René Samuel Sirat , president of the Conference of European Rabbis, thus underlined the importance of the responsibility of the men and women of today. We spoke to him concerning the ever more difficult situation in […]

Men and religions" "

A pluralist Europe, ready to listen to smaller countries and minorities, capable of becoming a “common home” for peoples of different cultures, ethnic backgrounds and religions. It is in the challenge of coexistence and peace that Europe will decide her future. These ideas were reiterated by the European representatives of Christian Churches (Catholics, Romanian and […]