Italia: un discoforum per prepararsi alla Gmg” “

Un discoforum per ascoltare musica e confrontarsi sui grandi temi giovanili come amore e amicizia, solidarietà, pace, cielo e terra, lavoro, futuro. È l’iniziativa congiunta di www.giovani.org, il sito del Forum oratori italiani e di www.gmg2005.it il portale sulla Giornata mondiale della gioventù di Colonia (agosto 2005), promosso dal Servizio della Conferenza episcopale italiana (Cei) […]

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Albania: diocesi e nuova università cattolica ” “

“Ringrazio il Santo Padre per l’interessamento al cammino che le Chiese locali in Albania stanno compiendo in questi anni di ripresa e radicamento nel Paese. La riorganizzazione delle circoscrizioni ecclesiastiche albanesi decisa da Giovanni Paolo II significa, da una parte la continuazione di un percorso di presenza e annuncio e, dall’altra, la base da cui […]

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Una terra europea” “” “

Ponte tra l’Europa dell’Ovest e l’Europa dell’Est, l’Austria ha sempre vissuto una vocazione europea aperta ad altre culture e religioni. Le radici cristiane hanno trovato in questo Paese un terreno fertile e si sono spinte oltre i confini geografici e politici. La stessa storia austriaca si salda con quella europea grazie alla testimonianza dei cattolici […]

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Unkept promises” “

Once again the password was “campaign against poverty”, and no end of promises and future commitments were made to this end. But now these need to be translated into concrete actions. At the summit in Davos, in Switzerland, politicians, economists, experts from non-governmental organizations, managers of multinationals, religious leaders and show business personalities debated together […]

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On various fronts” “

Last week the European Commission approved the strategic lines for the next five years and the programme for 2005, outlined during the parliamentary session in Brussels. The EU leaders then presided over the commemoration at Auschwitz of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp. There were also European interventions at Davos, […]

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A light from the East” “

The growth of the number of Catholics of Eastern rite in Great Britain poses to the English Church the question of dialogue between the Latin and Western tradition and that typical of Eastern Europe. This need has prompted ROBIN GIBBONS , lecturer at St. Mary’s College in Twickenham (England) and coadjutor in the Melchite parish […]

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A fruitful meeting” “

Time is running short as the organizers of WYD 2005 continue to tackle the formidable logistic details of the great youth jamboree in Cologne. From the meeting in Bernsberg emerged the probability that the number of participants at the Cologne event will be higher than that hitherto predicted: up to one million young people from […]

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Patriarch Teoctist: "no prayer is in vain"” “

“No prayer is in vain”, said the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Teoctist, at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which ended in the patriarchal cathedral of Bucharest with an ecumenical celebration attended by representatives of the Romanian Orthodox, Catholic and Greek-Catholic, Reformed, Armenian, Evangelic Lutheran and Presbyterian […]

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CEC: meeting with Patriarch Alexis II” “

During an official visit to Moscow from 24-27 January, the President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), Jean-Arnold de Clermont, met His Holiness, Patriarch Alexis II who headed the CEC from 1986 to 1992. During their meeting discussion focused on the role of the CEC on the European ecumenical scene, the presence of the […]

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Dombes group: a document on authority to be presented soon” “

After its document on Mary, published in 1999, the ecumenical group of Dombes will shortly present a document on the question of authority, one of the most important problems for the process of communion between the Catholic and Protestant Churches. The text, with the title “One Master Alone. Doctrinal authority in the Church” is the […]

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