Grief for the death of 62 Spanish soldiers in Turkey” “

The Spanish Episcopal Conference has expressed its “condolences, solidarity and appreciation for the humanitarian mission” to the families of the Spanish soldiers killed in an air accident in Turkey last Monday, after four months peace mission in Afghanistan. The Spanish bishops also “invite the Christian communities to pray for and show brotherly solidarity with the […]

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Day of social communications, the bishops’ message” “

The construction of peace “does not only involve a defensive or preventive task in countering violence and terror. It demands, especially from communicators, an active commitment to construct, through the means of communication, an integral culture of peace and the defence of human life, every human life”. The point is forcibly made by the Spanish […]

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The new splendour ” “

May you “offer a clear and appealing witness of the strength and beauty of the Catholic faith”: that is the exhortation that John Paul II made in his message to the 2,000 participants in the first International Congress on the new evangelization and the city mission, on the theme “Open the doors to Christ!” of […]

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For what family?” ” ” “

“Reflection on the family urgently needs to be revived, to bring home to the young that the family is not a confessional reality, but a valid anthropological model and an irreplaceable human resource. The family founded on marriage is a precious asset for the whole of society because it is the most reliable way of […]

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Thoughts, voices and projects” “” “

Collegiality between the Episcopal Conferences of Europe with a view to an ever greater common commitment in the process of the reunification of the continent, the intensification of collaboration between the Churches of Europe and Latin America, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, the protection of the environment and the promotion of human rights: these are just […]

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The day of unity ” “

“May the joint Kirchentag become a great ecumenical sign that union in the faith is stronger that what it is that divides“; and “Christians have a common mission to the world”: so declared John Paul II in the message he sent to the Oecumenische Kirchentag that opened in Berlin on 28 May (cf. SIR nos.33, […]

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CCEE: meeting of the general secretaries of the European bishops” “

The meeting of the general secretaries of the European Episcopal Conferences, promoted by the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE), ended in Berlin on 28 May. Among the main question discussed: how to organize a secretariat, how to regulate relations with the State, how a Conference may experience a spirituality of communion, and […]

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European Churches tell the G8: think of Africa ” “

European and African Bishops have asked the G8, which will meet from June 1st to the 3rd at Evian (France), for “new mobilisation for the African continent”: this request, contained in a letter signed by Monsignor Joseph Homeyer, president of the Commission of the European Union Episcopates (Comece) and by Monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, President […]

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Perplexities of CEC and COMECE about the draft Treaty” “

The Presidium of the European Convention has approved the draft preamble of the future constitutional Treaty of the European Union. No explicit reference to the Christian roots of Europe is made in the text. The Rev. Rudiger Nöll, director of the Church and Society Commission of the CEC, the Conference of European Churches (including Orthodox, […]

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Vienna interrogates Brussels” “” “

“Perhaps it wasn’t just a pure coincidence, but on the very day in which the first European city mission was being celebrated in Vienna, the draft of the future European Constitution was published in Brussels, a Constitution which in its preamble (text on page 13) makes no explicit reference to the Christian roots of Europe”. […]

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