November 1, 2001 Ecumenical chapel opens

BrusselsA Jesuit-owned chapel, constructed in 1908 and later abandoned, has been restored and re-opened as an ecumenical "Chapel for Europe" in Brussels in order to minister to staff of European Union departments located nearby. ...

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February 1, 2001 Scribes' shrine set up

LondonCanon David Meara, of St. Bride's Church in London is creating an Internet shrine to journalists killed, maimed, or imprisoned throughout Europe. The church, known as the "journalists' cathedral," created an altar to...

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February 1, 2001 Salvation Army in legal limbo

MoscowThe Salvation Army in Moscow began the year in what the head of the Christian group's Russian operations, Kenneth Baillie, has called a "legal never-never land". "As of two days ago, we do not exist in Moscow," Mr....

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December 1, 2000 Ecumenism bolstered

The controversial Vatican document, Dominus Iesus, has strengthened the ecumenical commitment of many German Catholics, according to Maria Jepsen, the Lutheran bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church,...

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September 1, 2000 Portugal

And if Spain is the head of Europe, Portugal, set as its western extremity, where land ends and sea begins, is, as it were, the crown on the head. Portuguese epic poet Luis Vaz de Camoes in The Luisiadas, 1572 PORTUGAL is...

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November 1, 1999 Serbs are real victims, priest says

The media got the story all wrong in Kosovo, says an Anglican priest who spent eight days in Serbia in June. Far from the Serbs forcing ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo began decades...

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September 1, 1999 Serbian Orthodox bishops press Milosevic to quit

Belgrade The bishops of Yugoslavia's biggest church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, have called on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to hand over power to a transitional government, which they hope will restore the country's...

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June 1, 1999 `Oh God, help us,' prays Kosovar mother

Ajshe Rexhepi is 30 years old, a math teacher, a wife, a mother of two - and a refugee from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. She is now living at Camp...

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June 1, 1999 Primate seeks sponsors

As the first wave of Kosovar refugees begins settling in at temporary homes at Canadian military bases, the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund is asking parishes and dioceses that wish to act as refugee sponsors to...

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June 1, 1999 Performers make peace in war zone

IN THE BALKANS, instru ments of war have been demolishing neighbourhoods, friendships, livelihoods and families - soaking the soil in blood and the people in grief and fear. But there are those, with instruments of their...

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