Czech Republic, pilgrimage for the central European Katholikentag” “

The first of the national pilgrimages organized as part of the Mitteleuropäische Katholikentag (congress of central European Catholics) was held in the Czech Republic in 4 July. The Katholikentag involves eight episcopates of central Europe and will conclude with the transnational pilgrimage to the Marian sanctuary at Mariazell, in Austria, on 22-23 May 2004. Its […]

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Norway: 850 years of Trondheim ” “

After hosting the 12th KEK assembly in recent weeks, the Norwegian city of Trondheim is preparing to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Catholic archbishopric of Nidaros (the medieval name of the diocese, established in 1153). “The history of the Catholic presence in this area of Norway is complex – explains Msgr. […]

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Serbia: with determination towards Europe” “

“Serbia and Montenegro await concrete steps by the European Union, such as bureaucratic and procedural concessions to facilitate the process of our country’s rapprochement with the nations that are already members of the EU”: the appeal is made by Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar, metropolitan of Belgrade, who recently intervened on the question of EU membership for […]

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Pastoral care is always "vocational"” “

Vocational ministry especially means “prayer and formation, not the recruitment of candidates for seminaries”; “each member of the Church has a call, and it is the task of the pastoral ministry to help each to discover what his/her own place in the Church is”; “vocational pastoral work needs to be closely integrated in the new […]

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European churches" "

The future of the parishes” “

Only great collaboration and shared responsibility between priests and laity will be able to guarantee a future to the parish and overcome the current crisis: that is the conclusion of the recent European Colloquium of the parishes (ECP), held in Fribourg (Switzerland) from 4 to 10 July, with the participation of 250 delegates from all […]

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European Caritas agencies" "

The imagination of charity” “

From gambling to Internet dependence, from the children of Chernobyl to immigrants from Ecuador, from the social rehabilitation of former jailbirds to the campaign against the trafficking in women and children: these are just some of the fields in which the various European Caritas agencies are engaged. Their representatives met in Rome on 3 and […]

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May science help life” “

On Wednesday 9 July the European Commission gave the go ahead to the proposal to grant EU funding to research on stem cells involving the destruction of surplus embryos. The decision forms part of the “clear, firm, ethical guidelines” called for in the framework of the 6th programme of technological research and development. In particular […]

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So that trust may return” “” “

The truce announced by Hamas – however fragile it is – and the contemporary withdrawal of Israel from part of the occupied territories raise hopes in a breakthrough in the peace process in the Middle East and in an attempt to apply the ” road map “, the peace plan worked out by the UNO, the USA, […]

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CAMPANIA; FECONDAZIONE ASSISTITA: MPV, “È UNA DISCRIMINAZIONE NEI CONFRONTI DEL BAMBINO”

” ” “La proposta della Regione Campania si maschera dietro la voglia di non fare discriminazioni, ma in verità opera la discriminazione più grande nei confronti della persona più debole: il bambino, nato o non ancora nato, che ha il diritto di nascere e crescere con un padre ed una madre”: questo è il commento di […]

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TV IN EUROPA: COMECE, “PIÙ SPAZIO ALLE MINORANZE, AD ASIA E AFRICA SULLE RETI PUBBLICHE”

” “Programmi televisivi sulle reti pubbliche per valorizzare le diversità culturali dei popoli europei, soprattutto delle minoranze, ma anche per l’integrazione sociale delle persone che vengono dai Paesi non europei. Sono alcuni dei suggerimenti che il Gruppo di lavoro sulla società dell’informazione, la comunicazione e la politica dei media della Comece (Commissione degli episcopati dell’Unione […]

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