Redazione

MIDDLE EAST

“Ongoing wars and unsolved political crises in the Middle East can be solved only through dialogue and with citizenship. But this approach requires the support of the international community and of Europe in particular. Churches and civil society must, each in their specific fields, ensure its promotion in all sectors, from the economic sector to […]

FREEDOM OF EDUCATION

A group of children aged 6-7 waved banners stating, “Our Christian schools are in danger”, behind them, their parents repeated: “Our schools risk shutting down”. Further down a group of pre-adolescents in shorts and coloured T-shirts held yellow cards written in English: “Christian schools demand equality”. Nothing more than equality: while throughout Europe schools have […]

EDITORIAL

Peace, dialogue, mutual respect despite “diversity” (national as well as cultural). The Family (and the Synod), freedom of religion, of education, and also migration, economic and labour crisis, secularization (ongoing in European Countries, that “tends to confine religion to the private sphere and on the borders of society”.); the Middle East and the Holy Land: […]

CCEE-MIGRATIONS

Migrations and persecution of Christians are among the main themes of the plenary meeting of the bishops and cardinals presidents of European Bishops’ Conferences, (CCEE), gathered in the Holy Land (September 11-16). It’s a historic event: for the first time the bishops presidents of 35 bishops’ conferences, representing 45 European Countries, convened in the land […]

''DENTRO'' L'ASSEMBLEA

I volti e le parole-chiave; lo “spessore” dei temi posti in agenda e il piacere di ritrovarsi, almeno una volta all’anno, per mettere in comune le preoccupazioni e le gioie delle proprie Chiese nazionali. L’assemblea annuale del Ccee è anche questo: sorrisi, condivisione, preghiera, incontri (con famiglie, scolaresche, personaggi politici, intellettuali, giornalisti, gente comune…). E […]

Faces and key-words; the “bearing” of the items on the agenda and the pleasure to meet again, at least once a year, to share the joys and the worries of national Churches. The annual CCEE meeting is also smiles, sharing, prayer, meetings (with families, schoolchildren, political leaders, intellectuals, journalists, ordinary people…) and mutual understanding. The […]

EDITORIALE

Pace, dialogo, rispetto reciproco pur nella “diversità” (nazionale, culturale). Famiglia (e Sinodo), libertà religiosa, libertà di educazione. E poi migrazioni, crisi economica e lavorativa, secolarizzazione (in atto nei Paesi europei, che “tende a confinare la religione nella sfera privata e ai confini della società”). Quindi Medio Oriente e Terra Santa. Sono tra le parole risuonate […]

CCEE-MIGRAZIONI

Migrazioni e persecuzioni dei cristiani: sono fra i principali temi che hanno fatto da sfondo all’assemblea plenaria dei vescovi e cardinali presidenti delle Conferenze episcopali europee (Ccee) in Terra Santa (11-16 settembre). Un evento storico, poiché è la prima volta che i vescovi, presidenti di 35 Conferenze episcopali in rappresentanza di 45 Paesi europei, si […]

MEETINGS WITH RIVLIN AND ABBAS

On September 15 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and on September 16 the Israeli president Reuvén Rivlin: the bishops president of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) closed their assembly-pilgrimage to the Holy Land (September 11-16) with a farewell address to the highest public officials of Israel and Palestine. Peace, justice, dialogue, respect of rights and […]

COMECE AGENDA

An assembly that assumed the features of a pilgrimage to the places where Jesus lived is the major trait of the plenary meeting of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) in the Holy Land – Capernaum, Mi’ilya, Nazareth, Magdala, Jerusalem and Bethlehem – from 11 to 16 September. Among participants figure Msgr. Gianni Ambrosio, […]