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The Alliance with the Christians in Politics
-- ACEP’s background in a few words
-- Is ACEP a political party?
-- ACEP’s objectives
-- For ACEP, what is the link between politics and religion?
-- Who chairs ACEP?...
This morning, I watched a BBC One programme where Fern Britton discussed with Tony Blair the importance of his Christian faith and its influence upon his decade-long political life as prime minister. She also explored with him the vision for his London-based Faith Foundation and the way in which faith and reason could co-habit...
On 4th June, at Cairo University in Egypt, President Obama unfurled a roadmap that sought to drive his vision for helping reverse the cumulative tensions and stereotypes clouding Muslim and Arab popular relations with America. His much-touted address tried to brake the alarming tumescence that had set in those relations during...
I have not written for SOMA in a while, so the first thing I had to do when deciding to put pen to paper - or megabytes to hard disk - was to choose the theme for my current piece. After all, whilst it is true that some things tend to alter quite dramatically in Iraq, at least when viewed from our European end of the global...
Let me take the reader for the space of a few short minutes to the heady and hopeful days of 2000 when our global village had ushered in a new millennium and had actually survived it without any major apocalyptic events despite all the pronouncements of impending gloom and doom. I was still living in Jerusalem then, heading...
Being a peacemaker is part of being surrendered to God, for God brings peace. We abandon the effort to get our needs met through the destruction of enemies. God comes to us in Christ to make peace with us; and we participate in God's grace as we go to our enemies to make peace.
Glen H Stassen & David P Gushee, Kingdom...
The financial crisis has exposed a deeper spiritual crisis and a misguided set of values. The sense and value of human work has been pushed to the background in the general struggle for profit, the COMECE Bishops stated with regret on the occasion of their Autumn Plenary Assembly. This meeting, which took place from 12 to 14 November in the new offices of COMECE in square de Meeûs 19 in Brussels, was also marked by the presence of Fr Piotr Mazurkiewicz as the new Secretary General.
... The development of the methods of in vitro fertilization has resulted to obtain human embryos which could be maintained in life apart from the maternal uterine cavity, whose it is possible to take cells, either at diagnostic ends ( Diagnostic Génétique Préimplantatoire ), or for ends of research. The “Diagnostic G...
Extract Introduction, Notes Fondation Robert Schuman n° 22 : « L’Europe, une chance pour la femme»
The deficit of the feeling of membership in Europe is clearly indicated by the strong rate of abstention from the voters at the time of legislative European or the successive referendums. It is here the sign bursting of a lack of generalized confidence in the European future and in the European institutions. The Union appears...
Extract Introduction, Notes Fondation Robert Schuman n° 26 : « L’Union européenne face à l’immigration » by Sophie Garcia-Jourdan.
This is the text of Robert Schuman, The french foreign minister, which led to the European union. Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of...
The release, today, by Europe 2020, of their much awaited Anticipation Paper on the follow-up of the Constitution's ratification process creates an interesting contrast with what is to be read or heard among the various EU institutions or governments. Contrary to what those who created the mess are saying, Europe 2020...
EUROPE AND DEMOCRACY
FRIENDS OF THE MEDINA FORUM
16th April, 2005
Is the analysis model that the Democracy and Spirituality association is doing every effort to lay down likely to clarify the debate on the referendum? To answer this question, let us look at it with...
The writer is a research associate at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, and author of Le grand Turc et la République de Venise (Fayard)
From Belgium The European constitution has entered its final stage : it has now to be ratified by EU member states. And yet we are constrained by anxiety. Such an heavyweight country as France has set up a referendum whose outcome is likely to be negative. As a matter of fact, the “no” answer is heralded by opinion polls...
The Secretary General of COMECE Fr Piotr Mazurkiewicz welcomes the decision made public today by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO). “Obtaining a patent for embryonic stem cells goes against European patent law. This confirmation by the European Patent Office is a sensible decision and an...
On 8th November, the 66-foot yacht Dignity chartered by the US-based group Free Gaza and carrying twenty-seven activists on board sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip. It braved choppy seas and defied an Israeli naval blockade to call attention to Israeli sanctions against the Hamas-controlled territory and to bring in a...
Barack Obama achieved what some analysts had doubted until the very last moment: he was elected 44th president of the United States of America after a brilliant campaign that outclassed, outgunned and outmanoeuvred his not-so-maverick rival.
There is little doubt that America’s new president-elect, known in some circles...
From Obama, there is a lot to hope. He is the best that could have been chosen for America, the world and the Middle East ;
For America, he is clever, coloured (black AND white) and economically and socially knowledgeable. Clever, he listens, thinks before acting and is able to chose the best solutions for the...
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