Romania: visita del Patriarca Bartolomeo I” “

Sua Beatitudine Bartolomeo I, Patriarca ecumenico di Costantinopoli, è arrivato sabato 5 marzo a Bucarest, per la sua settima visita in Romania. Al suo arrivo all’aeroporto internazionale di Bucarest, il Patriarca ecumenico ha benedetto il popolo romeno e ha affermato che prega perché si realizzino i desideri e le attese dei romeni in merito soprattutto […]

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Svizzera: 100 mila rose per dire no alla violenza” “

100 mila rose sono state vendute sabato 12 marzo in Svizzera, come simbolo della lotta contro la violenza nel mondo. L’azione – lanciata dall’agenzia svizzera Apic – si iscrive nel quadro della campagna ecumenica promossa per la Quaresima di quest’anno sul tema: “Noi crediamo. La violenza non avrà mai l’ultima parola”, lanciata da Pain pour […]

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Contro il terrorismo ” “

Contro il terrorismo l’Europa non si accontenta dei discorsi e delle commemorazioni. Occorrono progetti concreti, una mobilitazione congiunta di governi, servizi segreti e forze dell’ordine, nonché la volontà condivisa di rimuovere le radici della violenza organizzata. L’Ue ha ricordato la scorsa settimana le vittime degli attentati di Madrid dell’11 marzo 2004, rilanciando allo stesso tempo […]

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The face of the other” “” “

About fifteen years ago, somebody at a meeting of the European organisation for priests (Ccpe) wisely asked whether Europe in future would have 29 flags or 210. He recognised that hopes for a straightforward unification of the states that then existed might be unrealistic. There was every risk that those states would split into smaller […]

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Belgium: appeal for the Congo” “

An appeal to the international community, and to Belgium in particular, to show solidarity with the people of the Congo and to assume its own responsibilities in supporting the peace process was made by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles, on 4 March. The cardinal was speaking in the presence of Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya […]

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Switzerland: letter of the Churches for right of asylum” “

An appeal not to “restrict the right of asylum any further” was made in the last days in a joint communiqué issued by the three main Christian Churches in Switzerland (Federation of the Protestant Churches, Catholic Bishops’ Conference and Christian-Catholic Church) and by the Federation of Jewish communities. The Council of States of the Swiss […]

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Poland: the Churches against ‘Pacs"” “

The Polish Church, together with other Christian denominations, has come out in opposition to a bill in favour of homosexual couples. News of the stance is carried by the APIC press agency, which reports that “in a letter signed jointly with the representatives of the other Christian churches, the Polish bishops have taken a position, […]

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Building trust” “

A Bosnian priest, who is also a weight-lifting champion – probably unique in the world – and his strenuous efforts to foster peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians in his land: that’s the original story of Father ANTO LEDIC , parish priest of two tiny communities lost in the mountains near Cogniz, halfway between Sarajevo […]

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New president of the bishops'” “

Bishop Ricardo Blásquez Pérez of Bilbao (Basque Country) is the new president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. He succeeds Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid. The new vice-president is Archbishop Antonio Cañizares Llovera of Toledo. The nominations (for a three-year term) were decided in the course of the 84th general assembly (7-11 March) […]

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Almerìa, an ecumenical church being built” “

The diocese of Almería, in Andalusia, is building an ecumenical church at Vera, the first at the diocesan level and one of the few in Spain. The church will be called “Church of Our Lady of the Valley” and is the property of the Catholic Church, which is offering “hospitality open to all other confessions” […]

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