“Abbiamo perso tutto”

“Quando è arrivato il ciclone abbiamo avuto una paura terribile: eravamo convinti che arrivasse anche la morte. Ci siamo rifugiati sotto i letti e abbiamo pregato Dio tutta la notte”. Abu Hani Si Kadr, 47 anni, musulmano, è uno degli sfollati che vive insieme ad altre 25 famiglie nel villaggio di Shakrail, nel sottodistretto di […]

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Sommersi e dimenticati

Vivono tutti in alloggi di fortuna, a pochi metri dal fiume o dal mare. Gli uomini lavorano a giornata nei campi o guidano risciò e barche. Le donne portano cesti di argilla sulla testa, per poi riversarla ai lati scoscesi delle strade di terra. I resti di case in lamiera e gli alberi divelti giacciono […]

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Germany: test stage for a new breviary

The first Advent Sunday, the test stage for a new breviary started. For now, it has been made known just as experiment, but it is going to replace to old one, introduced thirty years ago. Of the 37 dioceses in Germany, Austria and Southern Tyrol, 188 parishes are taking part in the initiative. “The life […]

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Scotland: turkeys at Christmas to the poor countries

Not a roasted turkey on the table set for Christmas, but a live one in the farmyard of some village in one of the many developing countries. This is the unusual charitable initiative proposed for Advent 2007 by Sciaf, the international aid and development agency of the Scottish Catholic Church. “In Scotland – explained Sciaf […]

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LOURDES

150 years ago…

While waiting to know the exact date of the Pilgrimage of Benedict XVI, the Jubilee of the apparitions of Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous opens today in Lourdes. In fact, 150 years ago, on Thursday, February 11 1858, Bernadette, who had gone with her sister and a friend in Massabielle, along the Gave river to […]

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ecumenIsm

Progress after Sibiu

The Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu (Aee3) indicated the strong and weak spots, along with the guidelines regarding the future of ecumenical development in Europe. These remarks were part of the letter sent by msgr. Aldo Giordano, General Secretary of CCEE (The Council of Europe’s Bishops Conferences) at three months from the meeting and addressed on […]

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ECUMENISM: IN BRIEF

Belarus: Christian Churches against AIDS

“A statement on social partnership between the Christian Churches of Belarus on Hiv-AIDS” is the title of the document signed in the past days on the occasion of the world day against AIDS (December1st), by the metropolite archbishop of the Catholic Church of Minsk and Mogilyov, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, by Filarete, metropolite of Minsk and Sluzk […]

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Germany: a sign of unity

The Ludwigshafen Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, from now on will be a centre for Greek-Orthodox worship. In fact, in the past few days the Church was handed over to the Greek-Orthodox Christians of the city during the Vespers ceremony. The Church had been closed a year ago after the unification of the three […]

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England: a new offence?

Catholic bishops of England and Wales expressed their concern for the government’s intention of introducing the offence of incitement to hatred on the basis of sexual discrimination within the public order legislation. The bishops are concerned that this may render illegal the statement that homosexuality is a sin. In a communiqué Churches reiterate the importance […]

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FRONT PAGE

Without frontiers

Love and hope: the Pope’s second encyclical recalls and renews the first. At its centre is a particular kind of “patristics”, typical of the magisterium of Benedict XVI, that revives the features of the ancient Fathers of the Church who are so dear to him: a teaching rooted in history, but one that is marked […]

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