Diversity is not a danger, but a treasure for the whole Church Lisbon-Fatima, Portugal, 20-23 October 2016 With a heartfelt appeal to the international community for an end to the conflict in Ukraine and a reminder about persecuted Christians especially in the Middle East, the Patriarch of Lisbon,…
The pastoral care of Eastern Catholic migrants in Western countries Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, 20-23 October 2016 The annual meeting of the Bishops of the Catholic Eastern Rite Churches in Europe is taking place this year at Fatima (Portugal), at the invitation of the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Clemente, President of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference…
Evangelizing Europe Principality of Monaco, October 6-9, 2016 The annual meeting of the CCEE, celebrating this year its forty-fifth anniversary, was held in the Principality of Monaco on the invitation of its local Archbishop, Msgr. Bernard Barsi…
New CCEE Presidency: Card. A. Bagnasco (President), Card. V. Nichols and Archbishop S. Gądecki (Vice-Presidents) Principality of Monaco, 8 October 2016 his morning, the Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences, members by right of CCEE (the Council of European Episcopal Conferences) elected the new CCEE Presidency for the five-year mandate 2016-2021….
Rediscovering the Gift of Hospitality Madrid, Spain, 26-27 September 2016 If it is true that people know more and more about the tragedy of thousands of migrants who every day try the challenge of reaching Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea on dilapidated boats and the desert …
After the welcome: the challenges of integrating refugees Madrid, Spain, 26-27 September 2016 It is in the light of the reflection begun in recent years along with various church bodies on the Church’s response to the intense wave of migrations towards Europe, and seeking to integrate that response into the Church’s reflection …
The Christian duty to give Hope Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 15-18 September 2016 Mercy means not running away from pain, injustice, and the many forms of suffering of our time, but turning them into opportunities of hope and salvation through Christian love. In any work of mercy, it …
“Tell me your story”: the Mercy according Jean Vanier Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 15-18 September 2016 “Tell me your story. Go out into the highways and byways and meet people, and they will teach you their wisdom. They will teach you also what it means to be human. Not to have more power, but to be capable…
Pope Francis: the new European humanism needs for memory, courage, healthy, human utopia Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 16 September 2016 On the occasion of the CCEE Meeting on the Works of Mercy which is underway in Sarajevo, Pope Francis has addressed the participants the following message…
Mercy means witnessing to the faith through works Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 15-18 September 2016 The meeting on the Works of Mercy in Europe today opens this evening in Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina) with the celebration of Mass presided over by the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal Vinko Puljić…
