Culture and job creation

During the Council of Ministers of Culture in November, the European Commissioner for Education, Information, Culture and Multilingualism Jan Figel presented a study conducted on behalf of the Executive relating to the importance of culture for the EU economy with particular attention to employment in the sector and the “potential creation of more numerous and […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

An agenda for the future

Two intensive days for the European Parliament, meeting in plenary assembly to approve the 7th Framework Programme for Research, discuss the future of integration and give the go ahead to some dossiers of social interest. The session was held in Brussels on 29-30 November, with one eye turned on the Commission, which in the meantime […]

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Kosovo: Orthodox monasteries rebuilt

Serbs and Albanians are cooperating in the reconstruction of the Orthodox churches destroyed in Kosovo in 2004. According to a report carried by the Austrian Catholic Kathpress agency, the reconstruction of the four churches has already been completed and the exteriors of a further seven churches will be reconstructed by the end of the year. […]

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Ireland: seminar on religions and radio

“Religious broadcasts for our time” is the title of the seminar promoted in recent days at Maynooth by the Council of the Churches of Ireland for television and radiophonic affairs (ICCTRA). Over 40 delegates representing the member Churches of ICCTRA, including 6 representatives for the Catholic Church, 2 for the Church of Ireland, and one […]

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ECUMENISM

Germany: Christians and the future of democracy

“Democracy needs virtues”: that is the title of a common document on the future of democracy of the German Bishops’ Conference and Council of the German Evangelical (EKD), published in Berlin in recent days. The document was presented by the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, by the President of the Council […]

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SALESIANS

With the style of don Bosco

“Europeans – some 707 millions of them, including the European parts of Russia and Turkey – are by a large majority Christian (560 million, of whom 285 Catholic; 161 Orthodox; 77 Protestant; 26 Anglican; and 11 other)”. But Judaism, with 2.5 million faithful, also belongs to the historical roots of Europe. Also present in the […]

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Belarus: in memory of John Paul II

A symposium to disseminate knowledge of the pastoral activity and teachings of John Paul II was held in recent days by the Bishops’ Conference of Belarus in the Marian cathedral of Minsk. The meeting on “John Paul II, man of faith and of culture” was held as part of a programme of commemorative events that […]

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Ukraine: a prophetic exhortation

In Kiev, too, a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio was held in recent days. It was attended by the leaders of the Catholic Church of Latin rite and Greek-Catholic rite, including Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the apostolic nuncio Archbishop Ivan Jurkowiè, Bishops Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk and Bohdan Dziurach, and priests […]

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Russia: faith and the family

“Today the social culture does not support the development of the culture of life and of faith: it does not support faith itself”, declared the Archbishop of Moscow Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, addressing a conference on the Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II Familiaris Consortio in recent days. Held in the Catholic cathedral of the Russian capital […]

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Poland: from Krakow to the Holy Land

A pilgrimage from Krakow to the Holy Land, in memory of John Paul II, has been made in recent days. Led by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Metropolitan of Krakow, it visited the main holy places and sanctuaries, starting out from the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. During the pilgrimage, in which some 700 Polish Catholics participated, […]

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