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EU support to paralympic gamesA few days ago, European Commissioner Ján Figel’, whose brief includes Sport, and the president of the European Paralympic Committee (EPC), Enrique Sánchez-Guijo, signed a joint statement outlining EU support to the Committee aimed at fostering social inclusion of people with disabilities. The statement was drawn up on the occasion of […]

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EUROPE-AFRICA

Dialogue of truth

“Dialogue should be based on truth”. In particular, “intercultural dialogue demands respect for the dignity, religious beliefs and stands of the various parties involved, without attempting to diminish Peoples’ cultural differences.” Hans-Gert Poettering, president of the European Parliament, conveyed his thoughts on the “African week” that gathered momentum in Brussels’ EU Assembly.Two continents extend their […]

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CEC

Innovation on the web

With a celebration, on September 7 some 40 press officers and directors of communication from European major Christian churches, (Anglican, Protestant and Orthodox) convened in Geneva’s Anglican church for the official opening of “PONEC”, the “Press Officers’ Network from European Churches”. Its establishment was the result of two days of work – September 5-7 – […]

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Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovakia

Bosnia-Herzegovina: the restitution of a seminaryIn the past days, the representative of the Orthodox Serbian Church in the Inter-religious Council of Bosnia-Herzegovna, bishop Vasilije from Zvornik-Tuzla, requested the restitution of the Orthodox seminary in Sarajevo that had been confiscated during Communist rule. Vasilije threatened to resign from the Council if the building – which is […]

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Comece, Italy, Portugal, Spain

Comece : father Mazurkiewicz is the new secretary generalFather Piotr Mazurkiewicz is the new secretary general of Comece (Commission of the Bishops Conferences of the European Community). “He has been elected – states a note from the European institution – by the member bishops of Comece, in agreement with the Vatican, for a three years’ […]

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THE POPE IN FRANCE

From Paris to Lourdes

It’s a journey especially awaited in terms of the issues that “presumably” the Holy Father will tackle in his addresses, especially during his meetings with the country’s authorities, with the world of culture and with the bishops. Father Federico Lombardi gave a briefing to journalists in the Vatican Press Room on 9 September to describe […]

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FRONT PAGE

Something to say

A “journey of getting to know him that will enable people really to understand who the Pope is; it will be a meeting with the man'”: that how Jean-Dominique Durand, historian at the University of Lyon sums up, in a briefing to SIR Europe’s correspondent Giovanna Pasqualin Traversa, the expectations and “what’s at stake” in […]

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CARITÀ E GIUSTIZIA: CONVEGNO TEOLOGI (ATISM), OCCORRE UNA "GRAMMATICA SOCIALE" ” “” “

"La globalizzazione è una variante del capitalismo occidentale. Ed è un fattore di crisi, all’interno del quale si pone un’emergenza: l’assistenza ai deboli della società non è più considerata una forma di giustizia, ma come una costosa elargizione". Così il filosofo Roberto Mancini, dell’Università di Macerata, al convegno "Carità e giustizia per il bene comune", […]

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L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO: DOZE (CAPPELLANO LOURDES), DA PIO IX A GIOVANNI PAOLO II

Da Pio IX a Giovanni Paolo II: sono molteplici le testimonianze d’amore a Lourdes offerte in 150 anni dai papi. A raccoglierle in un "excursus" pubblicato oggi su L’Osservatore Romano, è il cappellano della cittadina mariana, André Doze, alla vigilia del viaggio di Benedetto XVI in Francia (12-15 settembre) in occasione del 150° delle apparizioni. […]

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CARITÀ E GIUSTIZIA: CONVEGNO TEOLOGI (ATISM), "LA RESPONSABILITÀ DELL’ALTRO"

Il teologo Martin Lintner, della Facoltà Teologica "Marianum" di Roma, intervenuto questo pomeriggio alla seconda giornata del convegno "Carità e giustizia per il bene comune", organizzato dall’Associazione teologica italiana per lo studio della morale (Atism) a Montesilvano (Pescara), fino a giovedì 11, ha cercato di delineare "le tracce fondamentali di un’etica del dono". "Occorre – […]

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