IRAQ-EUROPE

From fear to hope

The Procurator of the Chaldean Church to the Holy See and Apostolic Visitator in Europe, Monsignor PHILIP NAJIM , began his visitation of Chaldean Catholic communities in Europe on 16 September. News of the visitation is given by the website baghdadhope which also provides details of the Procurator’s journey through Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. […]

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Pope’s good wishes to Catholic-Orthodox symposium

“May the reflection of your Symposium help support and corroborate true communion, even if imperfect, between Catholics and Orthodox, so that the fullness may be reached that will permit us one day to concelebrate the one Eucharist”. That’s the hope expressed by Pope Benedict XVI in a letter sent to Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of […]

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Anglicans and Catholics, 40 years of dialogue

On Friday 14 September, the offices of the Anglican Communion and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity published the definitive text of the Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission for Unity and Mission. The document – with the title “Growing Together in Unity and Mission: Building on 40 years of Anglican […]

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Bartholomew I candidate for the Sakharov Prize 2007

A shortlist of five candidates for the Sakharov Prize has been drawn up by the foreign affairs and development committees and human rights sub-committee of the European Parliament. The name of the winner will be announced on 25 October, and the prize-giving ceremony will take place in Strasbourg on 11 December. The first of the […]

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Greetings between Benedict XVI and Alexei II

Russian Orthodox Archbishop Zosima of Elista and Kalmykia paid a visit to Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Thursday 13 September, during which he conveyed the greetings of the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias, Alexei II. The visit is reported by the Russian Interfax press agency, citing the press office of the diocese […]

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ECUMENISM

Transfiguring the world

The 15th International Colloquium of Orthodox Spirituality was held at the Monastery of Bose (Italy) from 16 to 19 September. Promoted by the monastery and held under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow, this year’s Colloquium was dedicated to the mystery of Christ’s Transfiguration. Not only representatives of […]

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Germany: appeal for the Christians in the Middle East

Yesterday, in Berlin, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Card. Karl Lehmann, made an appeal for the Christians in the Middle East. The 2007 round of “Solidarity for Persecuted and Oppressed Christians” was dedicated to them, and in particular, to those in Israel, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq. In relation to that, during the event, […]

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Portugal: spiritual assistance in the hospital

“Inconceivable and unacceptable”: thus, the permanent Council of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (PEC) defined the government’s bill meant to regulate religious assistance in hospitals. According to the Secretary General of the PEC, Msgr. Carlos Azevedo, the law project “does not respect the rights of the ill, and is far from the contents which have been […]

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Croatia: Ccee meeting of university pastoral

“Reflecting on the prospects of the university pastoral in Europe”, in the run-up up the Process of Bologna due to end in 2010. This is the main goal of the yearly meeting of the delegates of the University Pastorals of the European Bishops Conferences, promoted in Zagreb from 21st to 23rd September by the Commission […]

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FRONT PAGE

The “bridge-country”

Each papal journey is an occasion to recall the salient points of the social doctrine of the Church. This time the journey took place at the heart of Europe, in ancient Austria, centre of the former Habsburg Empire, a multinational empire that for centuries re-united different nations, from Italy to Poland, from Germany to Hungary. […]

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