JEAN VANIER

In God’s eyes

A small Italian village in the depths of the Emilian countryside, a few steps from the parish church: here are the homes and workshops of “The Rainbow” Community, near Bologna, which cares for adults with mental handicaps. Some live in the Community’s structures; others only come to serve in its workshops, where everyone works with […]

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COMECE

With an eye to its neighbours

The May number of “Europe infos”, the monthly of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) and OCIPE (Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe) is almost entirely dedicated to European neighbourhood policy. In his editorial NOËL TREANOR emphasises the fundamental role that the Christian Churches of the East and West […]

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CCEE: UNIVERSITIES

So long as faith…

“So long as the Christian faith is alive and succeeds in generating culture, neither the reduction of man to nature nor a totally relativistic or nihilistic perspective shall prevail”, declared Cardinal CAMILLO RUINI , Vicar of the Pope for the diocese of Rome in his address to the European meeting of university teachers now being […]

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France: a summer of solidarity and volunteer service

Bible-study camps, pilgrimages and prayer, but also charitable service to the disabled, the elderly and the disadvantaged: these are just some of the ways of spending a different summer that the diocese of Paris is proposing to youth on its website (http://catholique-paris.cef.fr). The offer of projects is wide, ranging from Jean Vanier’s l’Arche Community for the […]

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Poland: “let us not lose our own Christian roots”

“The cultural and technological leap forward we have been witnessing in Poland since 1989 has opened great opportunities to Polish youth. Thanks to the education they have received, their knowledge of foreign languages, the chance to travel abroad and numerous contacts with the inhabitants of other countries, especially in the EU, Polish youth can rediscover […]

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Germany: hand of friendship to Balkan youth

Over 200,000 students in German schools participated in the Social Day in support of educational projects in South-Eastern Europe on 19 June. German schoolchildren performed little jobs to raise funds for the project “Living Together”, which promotes reconciliation between the youth of southern Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. The money collected during the day (estimated at […]

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youth

Italy: from all over Europe with the Pope in Loreto

Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese and Iraqi youth are also expected to be in Loreto with Benedict XVI (1-2 September 2007). They will form part of the 800 delegates from 50 countries of Europe and the Mediterranean who will join their Italian counterparts for the key event of the so-called Agora of Italian youth, the three-yearly youth […]

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CEC

A common process

“The Council of Europe (CE) can only achieve its aims together with the Churches and the religious communities, not without them and certainly not against them”, said ULRICH BUNJES of the Office of the Council of Europe for the coordination of intercultural dialogue, addressing the participants in the annual plenary of the Church and Society […]

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Spain: “no” to therapeutic cloning

The Spanish Parliament finally approved the bill on biomedical research on 14 June. The law encourages and regulates so-called “therapeutic cloning” in view of the supposed “benefits” and ‘improvements’ it promises for the health of citizens. So Spain becomes the fourth European country to accept therapeutic cloning and the ninth in the world, after the […]

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England: “the work of COPCA” bearing fruit

Eileen Shearer, head of COPCA (Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults), the agency to which the Catholic Church of England and Wales has assigned the task of implementing the recommendation of the Nolan Report on sexual violence committed against children, will leave her post in July. Her decision comes at the […]

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