Vatican: "Letter" on the role of men and women in the Church” “

“Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world”: that is the title of a document that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish on Saturday, 31 July. The new document was announced by the Holy See’s Press Room […]

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Austria: Sankt Pölten, meeting of the bishops at Mariazell” “

The situation created by the scandal in the seminary of Sankt Pölten prompted the ten Austrian diocesan bishops (including the military ordinary) to gather for an informal meeting at Mariazell on 22 July. During the meeting, the bishops expressed their “full support” for the apostolic Visitator, Msgr. Klaus Küng, appointed by the Vatican to ascertain […]

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Ireland: pilgrims on St Patrick’s mount” “

“The sense of eternity is lacking in many sectors of Irish society”, said Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam, during the traditional celebration on Croagh Patrick on 25 July. Monsignor Neary was speaking to over a thousand pilgrims who had gathered on the summit of the mountain where, according to tradition, St. Patrick, patron of Ireland, […]

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Germany: religion and media in Europe” “

What role can religion have in the European mass media? The question will be debated in the conference accompanying this year’s Europe 2004 Prize. To be held in Berlin from 15 to 17 October, it will focus just on this theme. “We must tackle an exceptional question today – says Susan Hoffmann, organizer of the […]

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Bulgaria: difficulties in the Orthodox Church” “

The schism within the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is worsening. The judicial authorities have seized 250 churches and church buildings, the property of the alternative Orthodox Synod, and forcibly evicted from them the priests who put up any resistance. This situation is the consequence of the schism that arose within the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1992, […]

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Russia: religious communities to be indexed?” “

At Samara, a city of 1,160,000 inhabitants in the Volga region, Christians and Muslims run the risk of having their communities indexed by the local administration. The religious organizations must provide the local Department of Justice with the names, age and addresses of the members of the various churches registered on the territory. “We know […]

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Question of citizenship” “” “

European citizens have so many problems and so many hopes. On 1st May the Union extended its frontiers eastwards, growing from 15 to 25 members. They include Latvia, a Baltic State that once formed part of the Soviet Union. How is the relation with Brussels being experienced at these latitudes? What are the primary needs […]

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Intolerable slavery” “

It is almost impossible to estimate, with any certainty, the exact scale of the traffic in human beings in Europe. Police forces, NGOs and international organizations, all consider the relevant statistics wholly unreliable. For example, according to some estimates, 78% of women victims of the traffic come from the Balkan regions. Everyone agrees, however, on […]

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Colourful notes” “

The first plenary session of the new European Parliament (EP) was held in Strasbourg from 20 to 22 July. Born from the European elections in June, it was the first EP with 732 MEPs representing the 25 countries of the Union. The Spanish Socialist Josep Borrell was designated to preside over the new EP on […]

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IL SERVIZIO QUOTIDIANO È SOSPESO PER LA PAUSA ESTIVA. ” “RIPRENDERÀ A FINE AGOSTO.

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