By bus in the drive for mobility

The bus de la mobilité left Paris on 22 September. It’s the culminating event of an itinerant promotional campaign linked to the “European Circuit of professional mobility”. Before completing its journey in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels on 19 October, the 15-metre-long bus will have travelled through a further seven […]

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White Paper on intercultural dialogue

A White Paper on intercultural dialogue is one of the objectives set by the Council of Europe, the international organization of which 46 states of the continent are members. An audition on the question is planned in the Council’s headquarters in Strasbourg, to coincide both with the autumn session of its Parliamentary Assembly (2-6 October) […]

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Transparency: Eu funds and lobbies

The European Ombudsman – who has powers to conduct enquiries in case of poor administration in the action of the institutions and organs of the EU – has issued a press release, emphasizing the need for transparency in the fields of EU subsidies and so-called lobbies (or interest groups). The Greek Nikiforos Diamandouros – European […]

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Soil quality

In an attempt to help curb the phenomenon of the rapid deterioration of soil quality from which the territory of the member states of the Union is increasingly suffering, the European Commission has presented for the first time a strategy for the protection of European soils , aimed at “conserving, protecting and restoring the healthy […]

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ECUMENISM

Images for dialogue

The expression of faith through a powerful witness or an original experience, in an ecumenical context, at the “geographical” heart of Europe: that’s what happens every two years at the international Festival of films with a religious background, the “Prix Farel”, held at Neuchatel, in Switzerland, from 2 to 4 October. Thirty films were entered […]

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RUSSIA

The two fidelities

Between the 14th and 19th century the Russian Orthodox Church was the protagonist of a missionary action that reached, with great spirit of sacrifice and love for the Gospel, peoples that inhabited the very edges of the Empire such as Lapland and the Aleutian Isles. The history of the missions of the Russian Church, down […]

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RUSSIA

Reviving spirituality

“The future of Russia and its spiritual regeneration depends on the conditions of the Church: we must draw advantage from the present historical phase” in which, after the collapse of the “old Marxist-Leninist system”, “no new system has yet been built”: “a vacuum” that, according to Archbishop TADEUSZ KONDRUSIEWICZ of Moscow, “the Church is obliged […]

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Ukraine: 65th anniversary of Babyn Yar massacre

The 65th anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar, where thousands of Ukrainian Jews were massacred during the World War II, was celebrated in Kiev in recent days. “It’s a tragedy that ought to be a warning, especially for the younger generations, to renounce any form of violence and respect human dignity”, declares Benedict XVI […]

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Italy: seven Byzantine-Catholic seminarians

A seminary for future priests of the eparchy – equivalent, in the Oriental Churches, to a “diocese” in the West – of Lungro (Cosenza) will be opened shortly, reports the bishop Ercole Lupinacci, in a letter to priests and faithful of the Byzantine-Catholic rite. The seven seminarians that have hitherto studied in other institutes will […]

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Scotland: the parish as refuge

A Pakistani Catholic couple that risks being repatriated and a parish that has offered them refuge: that’s what has happened in Glasgow, Scotland, where the parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Anderston (Glasgow), Father Gerry Nugent, has opened the doors of the parish house to give “protection and safe haven” to the couple. “I took them […]

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