The board of Communicantes is wishing you all a Blessed Easter.
In pdf-format.
Category Archives: Communicantes
Communicantes Newsletter 2016/1
Please, read our Communicantes Newsletter 2016/1 with a short reflection on the year 2015 in the light of the present “Year of Mercy”.
Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2016
The board of Communicantes is wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2016.
In pdf-format.
Catholic Social Teaching in Eastern Europe and Self-Secularisation
On 29 May 2015 Frans Hoppenbrouwers of Communicantes discussed the fate of Catholic Social Teaching in Eastern Europe at the Dutch Centrum voor de Sociale Leer van de Katholieke Kerk (CSLK). Follow this link for the text in English: “Catholic Social Teaching in Eastern Europe. Faith and Action as Types of Self-Secularisation in the Context of the One Europe ”.
Communicantes Newsletter 2015/1
Please, read our Communicantes Newsletter 2015/1 with a short description of our main activities in the first half of 2015.
Highlights were:
– our mini-conference ‘The Churches and the war in Ukraine. What do the Churches contribute to peace and reconciliation?’ on 4 April 2015
– a meeting of Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic religious sisters from the Netherlands and Eastern Europe who put on boxing gloves at a five day ecumenical meeting in the Netherlands (1/5 June 2015).
Meeting of religious sisters from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions “Secluded Life in an Open, Ecumenical Perspective”
@Communicantes we are looking back to an interesting and inspiring meeting between religious sisters from Eastern Europe and from the Netherlands.* We discussed the sources, inspiration, difficulties, rewards and future of religious life with input from different parts of Europe and from different religious traditions: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. For pictures, see Facebook.
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De katholieke sociale leer in Oost-Europa
“Ubuntu” Ukrainian style – the long road to peace and reconciliation
Please, read the narrative report of our mini-conference ‘The Churches and the war in Ukraine. What do the Churches contribute to peace and reconciliation?’, which took place on 4 April 2015.
Report with links and additional information.
Photo’s @ Facebook.
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A Blessed Easter!
The board of Communicantes is wishing you all a Blessed Easter.
In pdf-format.
Publieksdag: De kerken en de oorlog in Oekraïne. Wat dragen kerken bij tot vrede en verzoening?
Eind 2013 begonnen in Kiev anti-regeringsdemonstraties, waar ook gelovigen en kerkleiders aan deelnamen. Het aanvankelijk vreedzaam protest groeide in korte tijd tot open oorlog uit. Tijdens deze publieksdag op Paaszaterdag 4 april 2015, een jaar na de Russische bezetting van de Krim, onderzoeken sprekers uit Oekraïne en Nederland wat de rol van de kerken kan zijn bij het streven naar vrede en verzoening. Enkele vragen. Hoe kunnen kerken in Oekraïne bijdragen tot een vrede die steeds meer uit zicht is geraakt? Welk verzoeningspotentieel hebben zij in huis om de gevolgen van dit conflict te verlichten, nu en in de toekomst? Waar liggen kansen? Waar de valkuilen? Zijn kerken deel van het probleem? Is hier, zoals sommigen beweren, sprake van een botsing van culturen en religies?
Deze dag is bedoeld voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in Oekraïne, het conflict Rusland-Europa, oecumene, de relatie religie-oorlog-vrede en de publieke rol van kerk en geloof.
Inschrijven tot en met woensdag 2 april 2015!
Actualiteit:
Download:
- folder van de publieksdag
- achtergrondinformatie bij sprekers, kerken en ontwikkelingen in Oekraïne
- routebeschrijving (de verkeerssituatie rond het centrum van Tilburg is drastisch gewijzigd – niet alle routeplanners zijn daarop aangepast).
Documents of the Vatican II Council in Ukrainian
Recently, the Documents of the Vatican II Council have been published in Ukrainian translation. All the documents have been translated from Latin into Ukrainian, while competent Ukrainian authors wrote in-depth commentaries. It was in fact our former collaborator Paul Wennekes, who pushed Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University and director of the Institute for Church and Society, to place this heavy burden on his shoulder. Finally, all the work that went into it payed off. Myroslav did an excellent job. Many congratulations! Communicantes provided funding to start the project.
Annual Report 2013
Dear Friend of Communicantes,
Please have a look at our Annual Report 2013 in English: read in pdf.
For copies of previous annual reports (2005-2012) in Dutch and in English, follow this link.
Contents
A Word from Our President 1
Crisis in Ukraine (and in Europe) 2
Communicantes’ Mission 5+7
Projects 2013 6
About Communicantes 8