Orthodox Church: Easter on 1st May” “

The Orthodox Churches celebrated Easter on Sunday 1st May this year. On Good Friday a Russian delegation, composed of personalities of the religious and political world, went to Jerusalem with the task of taking back to Moscow in an Olympic lantern the “sacred fire” that is lit each year in the basilica of the Holy […]

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Greece: Easter and the yearning for unity” “

The Orthodox Churches celebrated Easter on 1st May. In Greece the local Catholic Church also celebrated the solemnity on the same day. It has always been the desire of the Greek bishops, in fact, to be able to celebrate Easter together with all the Christian Churches in Greece, as explained to SIR by the president […]

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Italy: document on Church and rural world” “

In a farming world that has “profoundly changed”, we need to “restore incentive to the people who have remained faithful to the land, without ignoring the factors of uncertainty and crisis that appeal to the enterprise and freedom of individuals and institutions”. This is the premise of the document “Fruit of the land and labour […]

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France: an economy at the service of the common good” “

A document of the Social Committee of the French episcopate with the title “How to orient oneself in a globalized economy” has been presented in Paris. The document – 64 pages long – is the result of a project begun in January 2003 and appears 17 years after the publication of the document “Creating and […]

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England-Wales: supporting the Catholic media” “

In the run up to the World Day of Social Communications (8 May) an appeal to “generously support” the Catholic media, in particular the new project of the “Catholic Communication Network” (CCN), the office that coordinates the social communications of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has been made by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, […]

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Holland: the martyrs of the 20th century” “

On 7 May the diocese of Groningen is holding an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs of the 20th century who lost their life on account of their faith. Many of them were victims either of the Nazi or of the Communist regime. The day of commemoration will begin with an ecumenical prayer service with the […]

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Switzerland: Assembly on Europe and the environment” “

The 5th Assembly of the Christian European Network for the Environment (CENE) is being held in Basel, in Switzerland, from 3 to 8 May. Founded in 1998 following the recommendations of the 2nd European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz, the Network brings together Christians involved in the ecological field belonging to the various confessions (Protestants, Orthodox, […]

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Belgium: Cardinal Danneels recalls the pope’s election” “

In a homily pronounced on Saturday 30 April, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Brussels and primate of the Belgian Church, looked back at the “historic” moments of the election Pope Benedict XVI. “Fifteen days ago – he said – a man was there at the altar of the Sistine Chapel, behind him Michelangelo’s huge fresco […]

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Poland: in memory of John Paul II” “

Polish Catholics gathered together in prayer on 2 May, a month after the death of John Paul II. Masses and prayer meetings for the soul of Karol Wojtyla were celebrated in the basilicas and parish churches of Poland, especially in the evening, around 10.37 pm, the time when the pontiff passed away exactly a month […]

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Under the same light” “

The European Conference of Churches (Cec) and the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (Ccee) have written a letter to all the Churches and Bishops’ Conferences of Europe to announce the Third European Ecumenical Assembly, which will be held in Sibiu, in Romania, from 4 to 8 September 2007. The theme: “The Light of Christ shines […]

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