Category - expansion

Churches celebrate as Romania and Bulgaria enter European Union

staff writers — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:50:44 +0000

Churches joined enthusiastic 2007 New Year celebrations in Bulgarian and Romanian towns and cities earlier today ‚Ä' events which also marked the two countries' entry into the expanding European Union.

Pope hopes Turkey visit will strengthen global dialogue

staff writers — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI says he is looking to increased cooperation between Christians, and a stepped-up dialogue with Muslims, following his four-day visit to Turkey - writes Luigi Sandri for Ecumenical News International.

Comment on opposition to Turkey's accession to the European Union

Press Office — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:45:57 +0100

Britain's leading Catholic the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O‚ÄôConnor, followed the Pope's lead and expressed doubts over the positive impact that allowing a predominately

Toward the abolition of the nation state?

Simon Barrow — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:05:14 +0100

In the run-up to elections to the European Parliament, Ekklesia published a paper that urged churches not to be diverted by the debate about whether God gets a name check in the EU constitution from weightier questions such as what value there is in national identity and the nation state.

Simon Barrow