” “Meeting at the pub on the first Monday every month to speak of Christ and share with other young people one’s walk of faith and the problems it involves. It was proposed by Theology on Tap (TOT), a group of students from Notre Dame Catholic University of Sydney, which started it about one year […]

” “One cannot accept a new course of the borders in the Caucasus that comes out of violence. This was stated by Hans-Gert Poettering, president of the European Parliament, in front of the 27 heads of State and Government of the EU, gathered in Brussels. According to the German politician, asked to give an opening […]

Ingrid Betancourt’s mother too, adds father Lombardi, "had been received during a general audience by the Holy Father and had received words of comfort, of which Ingrid had been informed while she was held prisoner: she had heard about it from the radio and this had deeply affected it". Today’s meeting, concludes the Vatican spokesman, […]

” “"I’d say it was an extremely emotional climate": with these words, speaking from the Vatican Radio Station, father Federico Lombardi, director of the newsroom of the Holy See, described the audience that was granted today in Castelgandolfo by Benedict XVI to Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian politician who was abducted on February 23rd 2002 by […]

After 13 years spent serving the Church and Europe as a secretary general of the Council of European Bishops Conferences (Ccee), from today mgr. Aldo Giordano will be the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe (CoE) in Strasbourg, the members of which are the 47 democratic states of Europe. In […]

In addition, from September 2nd to 4th, the French town of Aix-en-Provence will host a workshop on relations between the EU and the UN for the response to crises and catastrophes, in order to improve the actions carried out by the international communities in case of natural or man-induced events". Such recent events as the […]

The conflict in Georgia will be the focus of the session of the EU Council this afternoon in Brussels, followed by a debate within the European Parliament about the same issue. But the 27 member states will be engaged on other fronts as well, this week. From September 2nd to 4th, Accra (Ghana) will host […]

Can ecumenism in Europe still arouse the interest of the mass media, and has the work of the Churches within the European institutions enough visibility? These questions are the focus of the meeting of the press officers of the European Christian Churches, due to take place in Geneva from September 5th to 17th. It will […]

A website for evangeliser children. It is called "Yfaith" (www.yfaith.co.uk) and is an initiative of the English Bishops Conference that will launch it on September 7th. Developed in conjunction with the "Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service" which deals with children’s safety within the Catholic Church and the "Child Exploitation And Online Protection Centre" of the British […]

Speaking of the young, the focus of the Congress which will open today, he highlighted that "unfortunately they usually are those most affected by situations of disadvantage and discrimination compared with their gagè (non-gypsy) peers". With this Congress – explained mgr. Marchetto –, we wish to address their spiritual and material needs, denounce and correct […]