Not only assistance” “

Various projects aimed not just at assisting, but enhancing the elderly are being run by the European Catholic Churches and Institutions. Some examples: Poland “In Poland great respect is shown for the elderly and attempts are being made to enhance their role, at the ecclesial level, in the various parish activities, in aid to the […]

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immigration" "

Reunification of families” “

“Is it the right of families to be able to live together, or is it the right of member states to derogate from human rights?”: that’s the critical question posed by the European Christian organizations active in the field of immigration – including Caritas Europe, COMECE (Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union), Jesuit […]

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The Churches against the white slave trade” “

Representatives of various Christian organizations operating at the side of women victims of prostitution in Europe met in Germany from 26 February to 2 March at the invitation of the KEK’s Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and Caritas Europe, which together have launched a joint project (called CAT) to relieve this problem. During the […]

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CCEE - CELAM" "

Many questions, many hopes” “

A meeting between the presidency of the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE) and the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) was held in Bogotà (Colombia) in recent days. The aim of the meeting was to promote closer collaboration between the Churches of Europe and Latin America (cf. SirEurope 17/2003). We discussed it with […]

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Peace, appeal from a war-torn land ” “

A firm rejection of “any form of terrorism, of the conflicts in course and of the feared war in Iraq” was reaffirmed by the presidents of the seven Episcopal conferences of the regions of the Balkans and South-East Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Turkey), who met at Scutari, in Albania, on […]

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University students and intellectual charity” “

“Intellectual charity, soul of the new Europe” is the theme of the First European Day of University Students promoted by the CCEE (Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe) and by the European committee of University Chaplains in collaboration with the Office for university apostolate of the diocese of Rome. The Day is due to […]

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WYD" "

18th World Youth Day ” “

An invitation to the young not to be ashamed “of reciting the Rosary to themselves, as they go to school, to university or to work” and to be at the same time peacemakers, is made by John Paul II in his Message for the 18th World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 13 April 2003) which this […]

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Christian laity and the future of Europe” “

Representatives of the Christian laity from all over Europe met in Cracow (Poland) from 7 to 9 March to debate the theme “Overcoming the crisis, succeeding in enlargement”. At the meeting, promoted by the Committee for the Social Weeks in France and the Committee for German Catholics (Zdk), in liaison with the Polish publishing group […]

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Spain, "Seminary Day"” “

There were 327 young men enrolled in Spanish seminaries (62 major and 41 minor seminaries out of a total of 67 dioceses) in 2002, and 195 new priests were ordained. The overall number of major seminarians (1699) shows a steady decline over the last ten years (there were 1947 in 1992, so there has been […]

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Bulgaria: commemorating the Holocaust ” “

The anniversary of the saving of some 50,000 Bulgarian Jews, on 9 March 1943, was marked in recent days in Bulgaria with various celebrations. Christian and Jewish representatives, together with politicians and foreign guests, commemorated the gesture of courage of the Bulgarian people who opposed the deportation of thousands of their fellow-citizens of Jewish origin […]

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