Spain: Migrations Day” “

“We must never see in the immigrant the stranger, the foreigner, still less someone to be rejected. The migrant is a person with whom we need to work together to build together a future of hope”. That’s the position of the Spanish bishops responsible for immigrants in their message for Migrations Day, celebrated in Spain […]

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Switzerland: reservations about the new law on drugs” “

“Major reservations” about Switzerland’s new law on drugs have been expressed by the Swiss Episcopal Conference, which issued a statement on the matter in recent days. Discussion of the new law in the Swiss National Council has meanwhile been postponed. The Swiss bishops criticise the new law on two main counts: its State’s abdication of […]

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Malta: the Synod and the lighted candle” “

An appeal to priests, religious and laity to put into practice the conclusions of the Synod of the diocese of Malta that ended on 7 June has been made in recent days by the archbishop of Malta Msgr. Joseph Merciega, in a pastoral letter published on 27 September. The Synod’s final document, the archbishop points […]

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France: violence against women ” “

“For how long will our society tolerate these innumerable acts of violence? For so long as these victims be abandoned to their suffering, reduced to silence, and stripped of any desire to live?” These are the painful questions posed by a book published by the social Commission of the French Episcopal Conference with the title […]

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Slovakia: MPs attend seminar on bioethics” “

A project promoted by the Slovak Episcopal Conference involves teaching Slovak MPs about bioethics and family policies. The seminar will be held on 3 October and is addressed at all the deputies of the national Parliament, but it is expected that others from neighbouring countries, Poland included, will also take part. Theme of the event: […]

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First Congress of the Catholic Laity” “

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan e Uzbekistan: 14 delegations of the countries of the former Soviet Union, together with their respective Pastors, will participate in the first Congress of the Catholic Laity of Eastern Europe, due to be held in Kiev, in the Ukraine, from 8 to […]

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At close range” “

“Today Catholics and Orthodox no longer quarrel, or rather they discuss things amicably as in family disputes. Not even Rome and Moscow, besides, are so far apart as people think…”: that’s the assessment of ecumenism in Europe made by the historian Andrea Riccardi , founder of the St. Egidio Community. In an interview with Sir […]

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A new season” “” “

John Paul II’s relations with Europe and with the CCEE (Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe), and the challenges currently posed by the continent to the Church, in the light of the post-synodal document “Ecclesia in Europa”, published in June, were at the centre of the keynote address with which the president of the […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

The USA must “drastically” step up its efforts in public relations, to seek to “save” its own image in the Arab and Moslem world: that’s the gist of the front-page article in the Herald Tribune (2/10), reviewing the various measures taken by the American administration to overcome the growing “hostility” in the Arab world after […]

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The ten points” “

The “Charter of the Regions of Europe” was signed by 197 delegations from 23 countries in Florence in recent days. The ten-point document was promoted by the Conference of the Regional Legislative Assemblies of Europe (CRLAE) which brings together the presidents of 74 regions forming part of 8 countries. We publish the integral text of […]

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