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Another important step in Anglo-Catholic ecumenical relations: Queen Elisabeth II has invited Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Primate of England and Wales, as a guest to the royal residence at Sandringham, where the royal family traditionally spends its Christmas holidays each year, and asked him to preach during the weekend of 12 and 13 January. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor […]

Putting an end to the folly of violence in order to pursue justice and re-establish a more just peace and real security in the world: that’s the message that the evangelical Churches of the Holy Land have published on the occasion “of the first Advent of the new millennium”. “We live – write the Churches […]

“Nothing justifies the tragic events of 11 September, but the West must realize that terrorism is fuelled by the inequalities that separate East and West, by the deep despair that reigns in the heart of refugees in many parts of the world, including Palestine, and by the lack of a future for millions of children”. […]

To gain the trust of European citizens, the process of integration “must be open and transparent” and must focus attention on the “issues that really concern” them. That is why it is important that the European Union should enter into “a structural dialogue with the organizations of civil society and with the Churches and religious […]

A campaign for the elimination of architectural barriers in churches and in other church buildings has been promoted in Spain by Frater (Fraternidad cristiana de enfermos y minusválidos de España), a pressure group for the sick and the disabled, which is proposing to reach this objective in the four-year period 2000-2004. “It’s an ambitious objective […]

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The “new and alternative family models” seem “poor and rickety”, and the attempt to equate cohabitation with marriage is “dangerous”: so say the bishops of the Commission for the family and the defence of life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, in its message to mark the “Day for the family and life” that is being […]

Religious education (RE) in European schools is a long-consolidated reality, even if highly diversified from country to country. It is difficult to draw comparisons. But one common denominator can be recognized; namely, the fact that over the last few years schools almost everywhere have been obliged to rediscover a new role in relation to “religious […]

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“A pledge on the part of the Land of Brandenburg to present a bill amending the law of the Landtag (regional parliament) before the beginning of the next school year and withdrawal of the lawsuits claiming anti-constitutionality lodged by the defendants after the amended law enters into force”: this, in essence, is what is established […]

The debate on the future of Europe was officially launched by the Swedish Presidency at the beginning of 2001, following the conclusion of the Nice Summit which committed the EU to a process of institutional reform in several stages. Open to citizens also through the Internet site www.futurum, the debate provided an opportunity for the […]

In view of the European Council of Laeken the European Churches are appealing for a greater commitment of the Union to the common policies relating to asylum and immigration, to ensure that Europe may be “a safe asylum and not a fortress”. In an appeal signed among others by Caritas Europe, by COMECE (Commission of […]