Germany: the Koran too in the classroom?” “

The first university centre for the training of teachers in Islam in state schools has been opened at the University of Münster, in Germany. The centre was inaugurated at the very time that a debate is going on in the Region about whether it is appropriate to teach Islam in state schools. Hitherto only the […]

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Anglicans: too "strident" a debate” “

“Sorrow” for the “strident” tones used in the debate being conducted in the Anglican Communion on gay priests and homosexual unions has been expressed by the members of the Commission set up by the archbishop of Canterbury, following the controversy that erupted after the ordination of a self-declared gay bishop in the USA. The Commission, […]

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Slovenia: Ljubljana, a referendum on the mosque” “

The citizens of Ljubljana will decide with a referendum on 4 April whether to authorize or not the Moslem minority to build the first mosque in Slovenia. The decision to hold “a referendum on the building of an Islamic religious and cultural centre” on the outskirts of the capital was taken by the town council […]

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France: dialogue between rabbis and bishops” “

At the invitation of Rabbi Israel Singer, head of the World Jewish Congress, nine French bishops left for New York on 23 February to meet with the representatives of the Jewish community and exchange reflections on the question of “tradition and modernity”. In January a group of 15 cardinals from all over the world was […]

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Enlarging but not too much?” “

On 17 February the Dutch Parliament voted by a majority in favour of a new law on refugees, after subjecting it to debate during the previous week. It orders the expulsion of 26,000 asylum seekers, to be repatriated over the next three years. The law would seem to confirm the tendency in almost all EU […]

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Europe stalled?” “

The European Union is in agitation. As enlargement and elections to the European Parliament in Strasbourg approach, fascinating new prospects are being opened up, but many problems still remain unresolved. It’s enough to think of the mini-summit in Berlin between the leaders of Germany, France and Great Britain, which aroused concerns among those excluded from […]

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Poland, cautions and fears” “

Ten new countries will become members of the European Union on 1st May this year. Eight of them belong to the former Soviet bloc (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland). The other two countries are Malta and Cyprus (for the time being only the Greek-Cypriot zone of the island). With this number […]

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Ripensare la fede

“Ripensare la fede in termini culturalmente più efficaci per il tempo di oggi”. Questa è, secondo mons. GIUSEPPE BETORI, segretario generale della Cei, una delle motivazioni alla base del prossimo convegno della Chiesa italiana in programma a Verona dal 16 al 20 ottobre 2006, presentato nella città scaligera il 21 febbraio. I PERCHÉ DELLA SCELTA. […]

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Unità e diversità” “

L’Unione europea allarga i confini e, in un colpo solo, si estende ai Paesi che furono satellite di Mosca e alle isole del Mediterraneo. Quali saranno i problemi e i vantaggi per i “vecchi” e i “nuovi” aderenti? La Costituzione Ue verrà approvata prima dell’ampliamento, fissato per il 1° maggio? Quale il ruolo dei cattolici […]

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Speranza non delusa” “

La speranza di “voltare pagina e cominciarne una nuova” nei rapporti con la Chiesa ortodossa russa, “non è stata delusa”. Lo ha detto il card. WALTER KASPER , presidente del pontificio Consiglio per l’unità dei cristiani, in un’intervista rilasciata al settimanale cattolico russo “Svet Evangelia” (La luce del Vangelo) subito dopo il suo incontro – […]

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