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Oltrepassare le barriere” “

Al termine della settimana di preghiera per l’unità dei cristiani i delegati delle Conferenze episcopali europee e i rappresentanti delle altre Chiese cristiane si sono incontrati a Roma dal 24 al 27 gennaio. È stata la prima tappa di un itinerario spirituale nel cammino verso la terza assemblea ecumenica che si concluderà a Sibiu in […]

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A scuola di democrazia” “

Pensare e agire “con” i giovani; collaborare con i sistemi scolastici nazionali; mobilitare le coscienze. Il Consiglio d’Europa aveva lanciato il 2005 quale Anno europeo della cittadinanza attraverso l’educazione. Per il Sir ne traccia un bilancio il Segretario generale TERRY DAVIS , inglese, dal settembre 2004 alla guida della “macchina” organizzativa e politica del CdE […]

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Learning democracy” “

Thinking and acting “with” the young: collaborating with national school systems; raising awareness: just some of the aims of the European Year of Citizenship through Education proclaimed by the Council of Europe in 2005. In an interview with SIR, the English TERRY DAVIS , General Secretary of the Council of Europe since September 2004, looks […]

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Get-together at Patras” “

“European Capital of Culture” provides an occasion for a different European city to enter the limelight for a whole year, not only to show off its own beauties, cultural specialities and monuments, but also to host tourists from all over the continent, proposing concerts, exhibitions, conferences and other events. “European Capital of Culture” is a […]

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Questions on the future” “

“The young should find their roots in the Church but at the same time be open to others. Those who have responsibilities in the Church should help them find a direction in their life”, suggests frère Alois Loeser , prior of the Taizé Community. Frère Alois was one of the participants at the preparatory meeting […]

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Everybody’s welcome” “

“Think big. Nothing should be prohibited when we dream of how welcoming the Church can be”, declared Father Daniel O’Leary , former episcopal vicar for Christian education in the diocese of Leeds, in his opening address to a recent conference at High Leigh in Hertfordshire dedicated to “Everybody’s welcome”, the first phase of a three-year […]

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Slovenia: Church acts in cold emergency relief” “

The wave of unusually cold weather from which Central Europe is suffering has seen the Church emerge as one of major institutions involved in relief to the homeless and the poor. That’s the case in Slovenia where, as the bishops’ spokesman Monsignor Andrei Saje explained, “the cold snap has already lasted for several days with […]

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England: a non-Christian calendar” “

An excess of “political correctness” led to all the main Christian celebrations, Easter, Christmas, Holy Week and Boxing Day, being eliminated from the calendar prepared by the “UCE Birmingham” University for 2006. Their place was taken by a laconic note “National Holiday. University closed”. Yet, “by an inexplicable decision”, the most important religious festivities of […]

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Portugal: close political cooperation needed” “

“Close cooperation between President and Prime Minister is a requirement of political logic”, declared Francisco Sarsfield Cabral, director of the Catholic radio station Radio Renascença, in a comment on the Portuguese elections of 22 December, published in recent days by the Portuguese Church-sponsored Ecclesia press agency. The bishops did not officially pronounce on the elections. […]

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Ireland: "the future of the Church depends on children"” “

“Fostering faith in our children” is the title of the pastoral letter of the Irish bishops, published yesterday by Martin Drennan, Bishop of Galway and chairman of the Committee for Catechesis of the Irish Bishops’ Conference. “The future of the Church depends on today’s children, and the future of today’s children depends on today’s adults”, […]

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