FECONDAZIONE: BELLETTI (CISF) “NON È UNA LEGGE OSCURANTISTA. LA DIFESA DELLA VITA È UN VALORE DI TUTTI”

“L’affermazione del concepito come persona e la sua tutela sono valori culturali da difendere e non solo dei cattolici. Non si tratta di uno scontro ideologico, non è una legge ‘cattolica’ Quella che si sta discutendo in Senato è una legge da approvare”. E’ il commento rilasciato al Sir da Francesco Belletti, direttore del Centro […]

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On the right road” “

The European summit of Foreign Ministers held in Naples last weekend resolved some of the still outstanding problems of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC). But it still left open the thorny question of how to calculate the majority within the Council, in other words the weighting that each member state has in the EU when it […]

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islam and christianism" "

Like a bunch of flowers” “” “

Can Christians and Muslims pray together? The joint “Islam in Europe” Committee, including members of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CEEC) and Conference of European Churches (CEC), has tried to give an answer to this question, proposing in a study paper a series of reflections on the difficulties and problems that common prayer gives […]

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Italy: the Churches pray for peace” “

“Peace I leave with you” ( Jn 14:27). The next Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, planned from 18 to 24 January 2004, will be inspired by the theme of peace. In Italy the theme of the event was presented by a message signed by leaders of the Christian Churches: Msgr. Giuseppe Chiaretti for Catholics, […]

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France: Protestant Churches aspire to union” “

The joint assembly of the two Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (Church of the Augusburg Confession and Reformed Church) has formally pledged to seek union between them. Meeting in Colmar on 15 and 16 November, the assembly, by a large majority, gave a mandate to a joint Council to formulate, by 31 March 2004, […]

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Greece: Othodox Church rejects research on embryos” “

“Firm opposition” to the proposal to grant EU funds to research on human embryos, voted by the European Parliament on 19 November, was expressed by the Holy Synod of Greece on the eve of the Council of Ministers, which met in Brussels on 27 November to decide whether or not to ratify the proposal. “The […]

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TURKEY" "

A "common" patron saint” “” “

On 29 November, a delegation sent by John Paul II arrived in Istanbul to associate itself with the feast of St. Andrew, brother of St. Peter and “first called”, patron of the ecumenical Patriarchate. The delegation of the Holy See reciprocates that sent by the ecumenical Patriarchate to Rome, for the feast of the apostles […]

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Albania: in dialogue "with" Mother Teresa” “

“The beatification of Mother Teresa on 19 October has not only given impetus to the Catholic presence in the country, but has also favoured a growth of knowledge of and dialogue with the Orthodox and Moslem faiths”: so said Archbishop Angelo Massafra of Scutari, president of the Albanian Episcopal Conference. “On 16 and 17 November […]

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Serbia: history and "breath" of Catholics” “

The 1700th anniversary of the imperial Edict of Milan (in 313) will be celebrated at Nis (Serbia), the city in which the emperor Constantine was born, in 2013. The Edict recognized the free and full citizenship of the Catholic religion over the whole of the territory of the Roman Empire, both East and West. This […]

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Spain: no justification for terrorism” “

“There is no cause, either national or international, that may justify terrorist actions”. So declares Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, in a letter sent to the vicar general of the military archdiocese of Spain to express the bishops’ grief for the death of 7 members of the Spanish secret services […]

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