Editorial
Creation / Ecology
Two hundred and forty persons from eighty-two religious institutes, fifty-seven countries and five continents gathered in Assisi from 12-16 May 2009. “Creation at the Heart of Mission” was jointly sponsored by SEDOS and the JPIC Commission of the USIG/USG where both religious and lay collaborators were led by theologians Séan McDonagh and Denis Edwards in considering ecology and our Christian life. Continue reading
Forum Social congolais - image: Emmanuelle Devuyst
Se tenait à Lubumbashi, du 26 au 30 juin, la deuxième édition du Forum Social Congolais (ci-après FSC) dont le thème retenu était cette année: “nos ressources naturelles: notre droit, notre dignité. Un autre Congo où le peuple jouit dignement de ses ressources naturelles est possible: Construisons-le ensemble, construisons-le solidairement. Continue reading
Kirchentag, Bremen - image: Elaine Rudolphi
Five days, more than 2500 events, 100.000 fulltime visitors, 30.000 active participants – and the Jesuits and their collegues equally present with a stand. This is the German Protestant Kirchentag which takes place every two years. The Kirchentag is a platform for intensive discussion, a forum for critical debate about urgent issues touching faith and justice. Continue reading
EU neighbourhood policy - image: wikimedia
La géostratégie s’invente de nouveaux desseins à l’est de notre continent, dans une vaste zone de contact entre l’UE et la Russie, Dans cet espace immense et peu apaisé, vient de se mettre en place une politique de “voisinage oriental” d’un genre encore inédit. Après le lancement, au sud, de l’Union Pour la Méditerranée (UPM), une nouvelle forme d’ancrage à l’Europe actuelle, voulue spécialement par la France, prend lentement son essor, même s’il est freiné par les rivalités entre Israël et les pays arabes en son sein. Continue reading
Caritas in Veritate
George Weigel is a respected US commentator on Catholic affairs who has written widely on Catholic Social Teaching. He is a profound admirer of John Paul II. It is not surprising that he traces approvingly those elements in the new encyclical that, so he believes, Pope Benedict takes over from John Paul’s ‘Christian personalism’: ‘The clearly Benedictine passages in Caritas in Veritate follow and develop the line of John Paul II, particularly in the new encyclical’s strong emphasis on the life issues (abortion, euthanasia, embryo-destructive stem-cell research) as social-justice issues’. Such passages, suggests Weigel, may be ‘marked in gold’. Continue reading
Mediterranean
When it comes to talk about migration, statistics can hide the human drama that thousands of people are facing every day. The recent document: “Democratic Control for the administration of the Southern border” produced by the Jesuit Migrants Service-Spain (jointly with the Jesuit Refugee Service and Entreculturas) offers a deep reflection about the situation of thousand of migrants waiting to get in Europe and stacked in third countries, namely Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco or Senegal, so that these countries become the “external borders” of the EU. Continue reading
From Stockholm to Brussels
In 1995, Sweden voted in favour of joining the European Union. But the vote was won only by a narrow margin. The basically euro-sceptic stance of the past has softened considerably during the last few months. On June 12th, the Swedish people elected their members of the European Parliament in Brussels. Although only 48 percent of those eligible to vote made it to the ballot, this meant an increase from five years ago, and participation was above EU average. Continue reading
50 years ago
Avec cet article débute la version définitive de cette rubrique, consacrée à la relecture de nos propres archives, 50 ans après. Nous vous proposerons ainsi dans chaque numéro un bref retour sur une problématique traitée il y a 50 ans, avec le ton et les cadres de pensée de l’époque… Continue reading
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