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Oltre 300 milioni di cristiani ortodossi sparsi nel mondo hanno celebrato la Pasqua domenica 5 maggio, ad un mese circa dalla Pasqua cattolica. La data a cui aderiscono anche le Chiese cattoliche di rito orientale, si basa su un decreto del Concilio ecumenico di Nicea del 325 dopo Cristo. In visita all’isola di Ischia, Giovanni […]

Promuovere una buona comprensione tra le religioni evitando pregiudizi; sostenere la libertà religiosa; sviluppare programmi di istruzione riguardanti le religioni; sono questi alcuni punti di un’intesa siglata, nei giorni scorsi, dal presidente degli Affari Religiosi della Turchia, Mehmet Nuri Ylmaz e dal presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per il dialogo interreligioso, card. Francis Arinze. “Il dialogo […]

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The Holy Father John Paul II received the participants at the 10th Symposium of European bishops in audience in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace on Thursday 25 April 2002, and made this address to them which we publish below: Venerated Brothers in the Episcopate! 1. With great joy I receive you on […]

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Dear Bishops , We are young Christians, from various countries of the European continent. We come from various social and ecclesial realities. But we find our communion in Christ. After these important days spent together with you, we want, first of all, to thank you for having wished to give a voice to 35 young […]

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“I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.” “I am writing to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one” (1John 2:13/14). 1. The 10th Symposium of European Bishops on the theme “Youth of […]

In an age like our own, characterized by “a great variety of religious proposals”, the task of Christians “is not to denigrate, reject or demonize en masse whatever is different from themselves, but to “proclaim Christ the one Saviour of the world” with “humility, courage, respect and responsiveness”, though without ignoring the need to “warn […]

In an age like our own, characterized by “a great variety of religious proposals”, the task of Christians “is not to denigrate, reject or demonize en masse whatever is different from themselves, but to “proclaim Christ the one Saviour of the world” with “humility, courage, respect and responsiveness”, though without ignoring the need to “warn […]

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“I know what it means to be a young journalist, because I was one myself. At the age of fourteen I began with radio and then with the diocesan weekly: years ago, in Philadelphia…. so many years ago!”: with these memories of his early days Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social […]

“We’ll contribute to the building of a more human and Christian ‘common European home'”: that is the promise made by the 35 young delegates of the European Episcopal Conferences to their own bishops, at the end of the 10th Symposium of the European bishops held in Rome from 24 to 28 April, and promoted by […]

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The attitude of the European Church to the young must radically change for the better. She must recognize them “not only as a specific sector or object of youth apostolate”, but “as a gift of Christ to his Church in the whole of her mission. She must tackle problems and realize programmes and initiatives together […]