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Don’t pluck the flowers” “

Ten years have gone by since the signing of the Dayton accord, which on 21 November 1995 put an end to the bloody conflict that convulsed the present-day Bosnia Herzegovina. It was a war that had lasted for four years and been characterised by ferocious operations of “ethnic cleansing”. The new state, born from the […]

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Europe: the CEC meets Barroso” “

“The European Churches are important partners in the dialogue on values within the European Union”, said Jean-Arnold de Clermont, president of the Conference of Christian Churches (CEC), following his meeting with the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso in Brussels on 7 November. De Clermont was accompanied by a CEC delegation. “The President […]

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France: an ecumenical summer university ” “

For the first time, the Christian Churches of France are organizing together an “ecumenical summer university”, which will be held in Provence from 22 to 27 August 2006 for youths aged between 20 and 30. It will have as its theme “Christ our hope: in a plural world, let us trace paths of hope!”. Some […]

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Greece: Orthodox-Catholic meeting in Athens ” “

“After several years of stagnation”, the resumption of theological dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church represents an “encouraging step forward”, also because the commitment to restore “unity in truth and love between the two Churches has become “more than ever” an “urgent priority”, declared His Beatitude Christodoulos, archbishop of Athens and Primate of […]

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Anglicans: debate on the female episcopate ” “

First an appeal not to forget the ecumenical cause, then an invitation to caution: they were respectively made by Queen Elizabeth and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to the members of the 8th General Synod of the Church of England that opened in Westminster on 15 November. The issues on the order of the […]

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Russia: greater toughness in issuing visas to missionaries ” “

The Russian State is preparing a reform that would aim at reinforcing its control over religious communities and combating “foreign religious expansion”. Leaks of the planned reform have so far only appeared in the press. The story has also been carried by the “France-presse” agency. According to the Russian daily Vedomosti, the Minister of Justice […]

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Never so necessary” “

“2005 was not an easy year for Europe, but never as today is the European Union so necessary”. Presenting the Commission’s legislative programme and schedule of work for the next twelve months to the European Parliament, the head of the Executive José Manuel Durao Barroso recalled the results recently obtained and listed the problems that […]

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Research, environnmet and society” “

The General Directorate for Research of the European Commission (directorates for social sciences and the environment) has published a joint study on the socio-environmental impact of research at the European level, with particular attention to projects funded by the European Union. Divided into three parts (social impact, environmental impact, conclusions), the study starts out from […]

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Un’economia della conoscenza” “

“Si consolida la crescita economica nell’Unione e torna la fiducia dei consumatori”. La Commissione Ue ha presentato, giovedì 17 novembre, i dati previsionali per il triennio 2005/2007; ne emerge un rafforzamento dell’economia reale, cui fanno però riscontro incertezze nei bilanci pubblici. Il commissario agli affari economici e monetari, Joaquìn Almunia, ha spiegato che la crescita […]

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Ungheria, "provocazione contro il cristianesimo"” “

“Provocazione consapevole contro il cattolicesimo ed il cristianesimo”: così il vescovo András Veres, segretario della Conferenza episcopale ungherese, risponde alle accuse di Péter Gusztos, del partito liberale democratico, che il 13 novembre affermava in una conferenza stampa che “dovrebbero essere riesaminati i privilegi feudali garantiti alle Chiese”, riferendosi tra l’altro all’esenzione fiscale di certe beneficenze […]

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