Musulmani e cristiani

Non è raro infatti trovare volontari musulmani che lavorano insieme alla Caritas per ricostruire la loro terra distrutta dal ciclone Sidr. Accade nel villaggio di Kuawa Kata, nella Sea belt, la costa del Bangladesh dove il vento a 220 km orari ha creato onde devastanti che hanno inondato le terre circostanti, portando via le abitazioni […]

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I cattolici e il Natale

Intanto a Barisal la piccola comunità cattolica si prepara a trascorrere il Natale. In un terreno messo a disposizione dal vescovo (la diocesi è quella di Chittagong), vivono in affitto 40 famiglie, con strutture per l’animazione e una casa delle suore di Madre Teresa, presenti lì da 25 anni.Le quattro missionarie della carità si prendono […]

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FRONT PAGE

An Exam for Europe

At the expiry of the 10 December deadline for the Kosovo-Serbian negotiations on the future of the Balkan region, ended with a standstill, Pristina announced the forthcoming unilateral declaration of independence, while Belgrade warned: “Kosovo will always remain a part of Serbia”. Thus, almost 40 years after the fall of Communist regimes, which had imposed […]

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France: commitment for human life

Last week end for Téléthon marathon in France: thirty hours of solidarity on the television networks France 2 and France 3. But on the research projects funded through donations, French bishops last year undertook a battle in defense of human embryos and against its use for research purposes. The French Bishops Conference issued on its […]

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Austria: priests “take shifts” with manual laborers in the factories

A new initiative for the pastoral care of workers was launched in Carinthia on December 6. In St. Michael ob Bleiburg, in the “Filterwerk Mahle” factory, with over 2000 employees, 7 local priests will take shifts to give counsel and assistance to workers each Thursday from 1.pm to 3 pm. The company made available a […]

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Germany: family at the centre

For the archdiocese of Cologne the year 2007 was dedicated to marriage and to the family, the initiatives in this direction were illustrated on December 5 by Msgr. Robert Kleine, director of the office for pastoral care of the archdiocese. The fundamental importance of the family had already been acknowledged at the beginning of 2006 […]

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Portugal: link between institutions and volunteers

To mark National Day of Volunteer Service, the diocese of Faro (Algarve) has inaugurated the portal www.solidus.pt, with the aim of improving relations and links between the national institutions and those who wish to dedicate themselves to volunteer service. “We have tried to create a central coordination to which everyone can have recourse, knowing they […]

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Germany: “no” to the use of embryos for research

A firm “no” to any relaxation of the law on stem cells was pronounced by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, in an interview published by the Düsseldorf daily “Rheinische Post” on 8 December. The proposed amendment of the law, not excluded a priori by Chancellor Merkel during the conference of her […]

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Belgium: Christmas message on stress

“The inevitable stress?” is the title of the Christmas message of the Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, that will be published in the days ahead. The cardinal, according to the Belgian Catholic press agency Cathobel, aims in his Christmas message to tackle the effects of stress on individuals, on the family and on the […]

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ECUMENISM

Russia: Kyrill received by the Pope

On December 7, Pope Benedict XVI received in private audience metropolitan bishop Kyrill, who directs the Foreign Affairs department of Moscow’s Patriarchate. The meeting was centred on bilateral relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church as well as Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. In an interview released to the “Osservatore Romano”, metropolitan Kyrill defined […]

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