Redazione

The World Council of Churches has received hundreds of messages of solidarity with the United States on its Internet site. The messages come from various parts of the world and are signed by all the Christian churches. There are communiqués from the national Council of the Churches in India, from the Anglican Communion and from […]

Ecumenism

The representatives of the Christian Churches encourage the European Commission and the member States of the Union to formulate concrete proposals to promote a European strategy for sustainable development, in accordance with the Gotheborg summit held in June. In a joint communiqué, Keith Jenkins, head of the “church and society” Commission of the KEK, and […]

Catholics and Anglicans are trying to reach an agreement on a crucial aspect of their divergences: the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and of her Assumption into heaven. Members of the “Arcic” theological Commission which has been working for years to bring the two Churches closer together, met in September in the College […]

editorial

SirEurope is beginning its weekly publications with this number. Five experimental numbers were presented at various international meetings and sent to representatives of European Church organizations, political and cultural institutions. The aim is to further boost and improve a kind of religious information that, in recounting the life and thought of the Church in its […]

· ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN – Preparatory measures in view of a programme of measures to combat drug trafficking. Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 31/10/2001 (to be able to benefit from the funds of the 2001 budget). For further information, contact: European Commission, Unit for the coordination of the anti-drug campaign, GD Justice and Internal Affairs […]

The European Parliament met in Strasbourg in plenary session from Monday 1 October to Thursday 4 October. The main points on the agenda were the following: · Declaration of the Commission – White Paper on European “Governance”; · Discussion and vote on the Communication of the Commission to the Council and to the European Parliament: […]

In the course of recent weeks the following legislative acts have, among others, entered into force: · Regulation (EC) no. 1726/2001 of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council, of 23/7/2001 that amends article 21 of Regulation (EC) no. 1292/96 of the Council regarding the policy and management of food aid and specific measures in […]

The terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington have monopolized the attention of the main international dailies ever since the day following the tragedy of 11 September. The dailies of 12 September speak in fact of an “apocalypse” for the United States. “Assault on America” was the […]

“New forms of international governance for tackling globalization”: that’s the hope of EU Commissioner Mario Monti “The European Union is acquiring an ever greater prestige at the international level, because it represents a valid example of ‘governed’ globalization at the continental level: the most advanced experiment of ‘regulated’ integration of the markets accompanied by a […]

Restoring a chapel abandoned for over twenty years in the heart of the “European quarter” of Brussels and presenting it as a “chapel for Europe”, as a testimony to the Christian message and commitment for the construction of Europe: this is the project at the basis of the realization of the “Van Maerlant Chapel”, inaugurated […]