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Request for Invitation to Dialogue Meeting with Religious Representatives

14 April 2008

On April 11, we emailed Jorge César das Neves, our contact in President Barroso’s Bureau, as follows: Speaking at a meeting of COMECE on 21 November 2007 (see [link now unavailable]  http://www.comece.org/comece.taf?_function=news&_sub=&id=9&language=en), Mgr Adrianus van Luyn, Bishop of Rotterdam and COMECE President, referred to “the . . . key talks of the last three years, to which leading religious representatives were invited by the presidents of the European institutions”, the latest of which took place… read more »

EHF and ‘A Soul for Europe’

22 April 2005

From 1995 to 2005 Claude Wachtelaer of the EHF chaired the co-ordinating committee of A Soul for Europe – Ethics and Spirituality, an initiative aimed at giving a spiritual and ethical dimension to the European Union. The other members represented COMECE (the conference of European Roman Catholic bishops), CEC (the conference of Protestant and Orthodox bishops), the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Muslim Council for Cooperation in Europe, the Conference of European Rabbis. There were… read more »