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European pilgrims

They ascend in silence the Mount of the Transfiguration. Some recite the Rosary. Others stop to listen to the explanations of the local guide. The younger ones with the pilgrim’s staff, sign of pilgrimage, have a guitar with which they accompany the hymns sung in English, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, German, French…The same scene […]

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The biggest pilgrimage

This spring would be very special season for catholic believers in Russia. The biggest in the history group of Russian pilgrims (150 persons) is coming to Rome in the middle of May. This pilgrimage would be a final event in the year of commemoration of The Pope John Paul II. During this year many every […]

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ecumenism

A fresh page

“Restoring a soul to Europe: Mission and responsibility of the Churches”: that’s the theme of the European meeting of Christian culture, promoted – for the first time together – by the Pontifical Council of Culture and the Patriarchate of Moscow, with the support of the Foundation “Pro Oriente”. The meeting (Vienna, 3-5 May) – explains […]

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Italia: Caritas returns to Kosovo

The regional delegation of Caritas in Umbria is now visiting Kosovo where it set up a holding camp for refugees at Radulac, in the parish of Zlokucane (district of Klina), in September 1999. Today the camp provides a home to 22 children, “victims” of the ethnic conflict, assists various families living in poverty, and has […]

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Romania: a cathedral in danger

“Save the cathedral of St. Joseph!”: that’s the appeal being made by the Catholics of Bucharest, in Romania, whose cathedral, together with the bishop’s palace and Institute of St. Teresa, is being seriously threatened by the construction of a massive 19-storey building (75 metres high), with four basement levels, which will be called “Cathedral Plaza”. […]

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Germany: in memoriam Paul Spiegel

Following the death of the President of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Paul Spiegel, the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, issued a communiqué expressing his condolences on 30 April. “We have respect for the man who experienced the end of National Socialism living in hiding in Belgium and who, in spite […]

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Hungary: Sára Salkaházi to be beatified

On 28 April 2006 Benedict XVI signed the document that recognises the martyrdom of the Hungarian Sára Salkaházi and opens the way for her beatification in the near future. Sára Salkaházi dedicated her life to the service of the weak. She was killed by Hungarian Nazis on 27 December 1944, while she was giving secret […]

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Helping the Balkans

Ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords, the Balkans are still mired by a unresolved past. At this critical stage in their evolution, old wounds will have to be revisited so that they may be salved and healed. Deliberations on the final status of Kosovo are underway and the forthcoming referendum on 21 May in […]

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TORINO: L’ARCIVESCOVO PARTECIPA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA ALLA FIERA DEL LIBRO CON UNA "LECTIO MAGISTRALIS" SU "L’AVVENTURA CRISTIANA"

"Non c’è forse nulla di più avvincente, per un credente in Cristo, che riflettere con altri su ciò che rappresenta e significa l’avventura cristiana". Ha esordito così l’arcivescovo di Torino, card. Severino Poletto nella sua Lectio magistralis, su "L’avventura cristiana", alla XIX Fiera del libro. È la prima volta che il cardinale partecipa alla manifestazione […]

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PUGLIA: AUDIZIONE III COMMISSIONE CONSIGLIO REGIONALE SU DDL SERVIZI SOCIALI. FORUM FAMIGLIE, "NO AL RICONOSCIMENTO DEI VINCOLI SOLIDARISTICI"

"Il Forum, recepiti i suggerimenti delle 28 associazioni aderenti, ha ribadito il secco no al riconoscimento dei vincoli solidaristici e, ha sollecitato puntuali correzioni, in altri dieci articoli del disegno di legge". Così si esprime oggi, con un comunicato stampa, il Forum delle associazioni familiari di Puglia, in occasione dell’audizione della terza Commissione del Consiglio […]

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