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A new alarm has been sounded by the European Commission about the public accounts of four member states: according to the Report of the Commission on public finances approved by the EC executive on 14 May, Italy, France, Germany and Portugal are still running too high a public deficit. With a view to respecting the […]

Gathered in Brussels on 13 May for the meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC), the foreign ministers of the Fifteen reached a decision on the case of the thirteen Palestinians who had sought sanctuary in the basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem and are now in Cyprus while awaiting a decision on their final […]

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The summit between the European Union and Russia will be held in Moscow on 29 May. The summit will essentially be dominated by three questions: the so-called “problem of Kaliningrad”, the rapprochement between the EU and Russia, and the forthcoming signing of the accord of association between NATO and Russia in Rome on 28 June. […]

Some 120 choirs and musical groups from all the Swiss churches will meet at the Choir Festival at Morat (Fribourg) on Sunday 19 May. The festival is one of the most eagerly awaited events of Expo.02, which is expected to be attended by some 80,000 visitors. The choirs comprise a total of 4,300 singers and […]

Following the terrorist attack of 8 May in Pakistan that caused 14 deaths, of whom 11 of French nationality, Bishop Jacques Fihey di Coutances and Avranches (Normandy) sent, on behalf of the “Catholic community” a message of condolence and personal solidarity to “all those who have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, […]

A national coordinator for the family and marriage is about to be appointed by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and will have the job of keeping the bishops informed about policies and new legislation affecting the sector. The new coordinator will also have the task of supporting dioceses and animators in this particular […]

“We must grow in the sense of justice, solidarity and social conscience”. This is the appeal made in a message published in recent days by the Social Pastoral Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, to mark Charity Day on 2 June, the feast of “Corpus Domini”. In their message the Spanish bishops stress that “the […]

Two delegates of the “Church and Society” Commission of the KEK (Conference of European Churches) had a meeting in recent days with His Beatitude Christodoulos, archbishop of Athens and all Greece. At the centre of the talks in the Greek capital was the role of the Churches in the Convention for the future of Europe […]

The eradication of poverty and social exclusion: this is what the poor of France ask of the new president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac. A campaign to this end was orchestrated by French Caritas in the run-up to the presidential elections. During the election campaign, Caritas enabled poor people to make their voice heard […]

The fourth consultation of the European Episcopal Conferences on the responsibility for the creation will be held in Venice from 23 to 26 May. Organized by the CCEE, the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe, this year’s meeting is devoted to the theme: “Work and responsibility for the creation. Sustainable development demands a new […]