Switzerland: Christians in prayer for Muslims

30 days of prayer for the Muslim faithful who are about to celebrate the period of Ramadan: that’s the initiative being promoted by the Swiss Evangelical Alliance. It began on 24 September (until 24 October) and is enjoying some success, as reported by a statement of the Alliance. No less than 28,000 copies of the […]

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England: debate on childhood

“Lack of family life and pressure to be successful in school exams are harming younger children”, said Archbishop Rowan Williams, Primate of the Church of England and leader of the Anglican Communion. The archbishop was participating in the debate on childhood that opened in England in recent days, after a letter to the Daily Telegraph […]

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DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM

Russia: mutual knowledge as basis for mutual respect

“Faced by the challenges of the modern world we all have a need for sincere dialogue and collaboration to build a society based on mutual respect between the different religions and nationalities”, declared the President of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Sheik Ravil Gainutdin, and the archbishop metropolitan of Moscow, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, during a […]

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France: message of the bishops for Ramadan

A message to “express all the desire to continue to forge bonds of brotherhood and friendship everywhere, and particularly wherever living together is not easy due to the difficulties experienced by the young, violence and the rejection of those who are different in culture and religion” was sent today by the French bishops to the […]

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Belgium: for peace and justice

“Building a durable and stable peace”: that’s the invitation made to Muslims at the beginning of Ramadan by Bishop Guy Harpigny of Tournai, delegate for inter-religious dialogue within the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium. “This cooperation in favour of justice and civil liberties is the concrete basis of a sincere dialogue – writes the bishop in […]

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Switzerland: fast of solidarity

He fasted on Sunday, 24 September, first day of the month of Ramadan, to show his solidarity with Muslim faithful: the gesture, reported by the APIC press agency, is that of the bishop of Swiss origin, Paul Hinder, now Apostolic Vicar of Arabia, who accompanied it with a letter addressed “to my Moslem friends”. In […]

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INTERCULTURE

From the periphery to the centre

Immemorially a frontier land, the area between the Alps and the Adriatic has found itself marginalized since the Second World War: one of the peripheries of Europe, at least of Western Europe. But now a new wind is blowing through the Alpine-Adriatic region: the EU enlargement of 2004 has led to the collapse of some […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Cattiva maestra

I sondaggi di opinione non si sono sbagliati: il 68% dei votanti della media svizzera (quasi l’80% in Svizzera centrale, assai meno nella Svizzera francese) domenica scorsa ha approvato la nuova legge sugli stranieri e la revisione della legge sul diritto di asilo. Queste leggi erano sostenute dal governo e dalla maggioranza del Parlamento, tra […]

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CCEE: MIGRAZIONI

Il sogno europeo

Si è concluso con un appello per politiche di sviluppo ed accoglienza dei giovani immigrati in Europa l’incontro dei direttori nazionali per le migrazioni delle 25 Conferenze episcopali d’Europa sul tema “Giovani e Migrazioni: una chance per la Chiesa e la società in Europa”, promosso (21-24 settembre) a Siguenza, in Spagna, dal Consiglio delle Conferenze […]

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Scozia: S. Andrea, 30 novembre festa nazionale?

Il cardinale scozzese Keith O’ Brien ha accolto con “grande gioia” la notizia che il Primo Ministro scozzese Jack McConnell ha dato il suo appoggio alla campagna lanciata lo scorso anno per trasformare il trenta novembre, festa di Sant’Andrea, patrono della Scozia, in una giornata di festività nazionale. Come noto in Inghilterra e Galles tutte […]

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