Belgium: a chapel for Europe

“Our mission is to pray and celebrate, but we also propose moments of reflection on European issues”, said Sister Dominique Sadoux, religious of the order of the Sacred Heart, describing the activities of the chapel of the Resurrection in Brussels in the running of which she is involved. The chapel was the venue in recent […]

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Italy: professional training and immigrants

“Transmitting a Christian view of life and of work” to the foreign youth who are taking educational or training courses in our country: that is the main aim of the course of formation for professionals in the sector promoted by the Office for social and labour problems of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), in liaison […]

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France: Legion of Honour for Patriarch Sabbah

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, has been awarded the title of Grand Official of the Legion of Honour. The decree of the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, is dated 18th April, but the honour was awarded on 6th November. Expressing his gratitude for the honour to President Chirac and Foreign Minister […]

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Ireland: “no” to the death sentence for Saddam

An appeal to a double prayer “for the victims of this conflict, on both sides, and for a quick, satisfactory conclusion of armed hostilities in the region” is launched by the Irish Bishops Conference, following Saddam Hussein’s sentence to be hanged. Bishop Raymond Field, president of the Commission for Justice and Social Affairs (Icjsa), expresses […]

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The Netherlands: a boom in Catholic publications

“Deus caritas est”, Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, is the best-selling Papal writing in the Netherlands. During this second week of November, the Pope’s bestseller will be reprinted for the fourth time and will exceed the limit of 10,000 copies, according to the Secretariat of the Rooms-Katholiek Kerkegenootschap (Catholic church association of the Netherlands). So far, […]

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Switzerland: the Bishops on their visit ad limina

Secularisation, the crisis of the family, the liturgy, the sacrament of reconciliation, the relation between priests and lay people, vocations, ecumenism: it was a far-ranging reflection, the one offered by Benedict XVI to the Swiss Bishops received in audience in the Vatican on November 7th. The meeting with the Pontiff and some delegates from the […]

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The two circles

There are only three weeks to go before Benedict XVI’s apostolic journey to Turkey. It’s a visit dogged by controversy due to the distorted interpretation of the Pope’s lecture at Regensburg on 12 September. The controversy has even risked the cancellation of this journey, which has now assumed a political connotation, following the publication of […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: PROSELITISMO RELIGIOSO, FERRARI (GRIS), NO A "SCONTI AL RIBASSO" (2)

Il problema dell’identità, per il teologo Walther Binni, docente del Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum, "si può vedere anche dal punto di vista della Chiesa che accoglie. La questione, come dimostra Halloween, una festa assolutamente non italiana, organizzata addirittura in alcune comunità cristiane, è che non sappiamo più chi siamo. Di qui la necessità di un […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: PROSELITISMO RELIGIOSO, FERRARI (GRIS), NO A "SCONTI AL RIBASSO"

"Per recuperare la sostanza della fede e, al tempo stesso, offrire sostegno ai migranti non dobbiamo chiedere solo lealtà, ma dobbiamo essere capaci di creare comunione, accogliendo gli altri, riconoscendoli come fratelli, aiutandoli a mantenere la loro identità nel momento in cui si devono aprire ad una nuova, legata al Paese che li ospita". Il […]

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IMMIGRAZIONE: SEMINARIO PROSELITISMO, IL "PROBLEMA" DEI TESTIMONI DI GEOVA

"In Sri Lanka pacificamente convivono cattolici (8%), induisti (12%) e buddisti (60%), ma è forte il problema del proselitismo operato dai testimoni di Geova, che, sotto le mentite spoglie di cattolici, si avvicinano ai buddisti, lusingandoli con varie offerte". La denuncia, oggi pomeriggio, nel seminario "Proselitismo dei movimenti religiosi alternativi tra i migranti", promosso oggi […]

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