Redazione

ASIA

Un continente "giovane" nel quale "vive il 60% della popolazione mondiale", di cui il 37% è concentrato solo in India e Cina, e nel quale i cristiani sono solo il 3%. È partito da questi dati il card. Oswald Gracias, arcivescovo di Bombay e segretario generale della "Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences" (Fabc – India), […]

EUROPA

"Al tema dell’Europa sono già state dedicate due Assemblee speciali del Sinodo dei vescovi. La prima dopo la caduta del muro di Berlino, in un clima di entusiasmo. La seconda nel 1999, all’alba del Grande Giubileo. I frutti di quest’ultima sono stati riassunti nell’Esortazione apostolica ‘Ecclesia in Europa’ del Beato Giovanni Paolo II. Nel frattempo […]

OCEANIA

"Isole di umanità". Così mons. John Atcherley Dew, arcivescovo di Wellington e presidente della Federazione delle Conferenze episcopali dell’Oceania, ama definire le diocesi e i Paesi delle quattro Conferenze episcopali del Pacifico (Cepac) che ruotano intorno all’Oceania, riprendendo un’espressione coniata da padre Timothy Radcliffe nel 1998. E, proprio da questo concetto chiave, si è sviluppata […]

BISHOPS' SYNOD

"To the theme of Europe have been dedicated two special Assemblies of the Bishops’ Synod. The first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a climate of enthusiasm. The second in 1999, on the eve of the Great Jubilee. The fruits of the latter can be summarized in the Apostolic exhortation ‘Ecclesia in Europe’ […]

EU action plan for unaccompanied minors"The minors arriving alone to our borders are among the most exposed and vulnerable in our societies. Although it is encouraging that EU policies have helped to improve the conditions and protection of the children, more challenges lie ahead" said Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs, commenting on a proposal […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Portugal: extending our glance beyond the crisisIn an interview broadcast on Sunday October 7 by the Portuguese television (RTP2) during the program "70×7", Msgr. José Policarpo invited participants to undertake a profound reflection on the economic system. He said: "the destiny of Portugal and of all Europe can be planned and developed looking beyond the […]

EDITORIAL

When the financial crisis broke in the Eurozone, the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk invoked the image of Crystal Palace, venue of the World Exhibition in London in 1851. In his view, the EU has often been perceived as a gigantic glasshouse of leisure in which citizens can give themselves up to worshipping, in joy mixed […]

CYPRUS

"The separation wall in Cyprus will fall when the international and European institutions will directly ask Turkey to withdraw its troops from the occupied northern part of the island". Diomides Diomidous, secretary general of the Democratic Labour Federation (DEOK) in Cyprus, put it in clear terms: "Turkey must leave the Turkish-Cypriot community free to negotiate […]

UKRAINE

Follows the interview with the president of the Ukrainian Bishops’ Conference, Msgr. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv, on the history and presence of the Catholic Church of Latin rite in Ukraine. On latest issue of SIR Europe (click here) is published the interview with the Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Cyprus: the appeal of the archbishop ChrysostomosIn the framework of the Cypriot presidency of the European Union the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, said he hopes that Cyprus "will be a place where religious freedoms are respected and practiced with no restrictions". Archbishop Chrysostomos II delievered his speech at a seminar on freedom […]