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The Conference of European Churches (KEK) could play an important role in promoting dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. So said the secretary general of KEK, Keith Clements, on his return from a journey to Moscow made at the end of February to test the state of the ecumenical movement in […]

Expressions of solidarity with the Christian communities living in the Holy Land were pronounced by the bishops of Switzerland in the final communiqué released at the end of their oridinary assembly held from 4 to 6 March. The bishops were updated on the situation in the Middle East by Msgr. Pierre Bürcher, on his return […]

Bosnia and Croatia" "

The pastoral care of Croatians living abroad and catechesis: these are the two main questions debated by the bishops of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the course of a joint assembly held in Sarajevo on Wednesday, 6 March. The meeting, attended by over twenty bishops, ended in the afternoon with a mass celebrated in the cathedral […]

France

On 21 April and 5 May 2002, the French will vote to elect their President of the Republic who will remain in office for five years; on 9 and 16 June they will vote in the legislative elections. The French are disillusioned and disinterested. The announcement that Jacques Chirac, current President of the French Republic, […]

Czech Republic" "

“In the Constitution it is written that the State is non-confessional and the Church free and independent”. The fact is recalled by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk , archbishop of Prague, engaged together with the Protestant and Orthodox Churches in a “unanimous” battle against the law that came into force on 7 January and that de facto […]

Switzerland

Swiss citizens, by a narrow majority (54.6 %), said “yes” to the country’s membership of the United Nations. The majority of those who voted “no” in the referendum held on 3 March were concentrated in the German-language cantons and in the Ticino. By contrast, the favourable vote of the French-speaking cantons was compact, and determined […]

The most important Christian leaders in Scotland have decided to conduct a census on 12 May 2002. It will involve all the Christian denominations. The changes in the life of the church and in society in recent years have prompted the Churches to investigate what’s happening also in the Christian communities. The Census will investigate […]

Ecumenical meetings, Masses, meditation hours, and each Sunday the Via Crucis. These are the typical ingredients of every Lent in the various dioceses of England and Wales. The magazines produced for the occasion, with the title “Lenten”, are full of suggestions for making these forty days special. During Lent – we read in “Lenten Extra” […]

The programme of activities promoted by the Churches in Germany to accompany the faithful during Lent is inspired by the themes of ecumenism and technology. Internet buffs have an embarrassingly rich choice. They may choose to live the Lenten period by clicking on the Internet, by using the short message service of their cell phones, […]

If the inhabitants of the industrialized countries are swamped by the means of communication, some 50% of the world’s population have never used a telephone in their life, due to the lack of infrastructures. One other indicative statistic: in the nations of black Africa, only 0.4% of the population have access to the Internet. Launched […]