COMECE - COMECE and CEC meet with the Croatian EU Presidency

21. January 2020

COMECE and CEC meet with the Croatian EU Presidency

Press Release, 21/01/2020

An ecumenical delegation composed of representatives from Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) met in Zagreb on Monday, 20 January 2020 with Mr. Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia, to exchange on the priorities of the Croatian Presidency of the EU Council, which started on 1 January 2020.

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12. December 2019

COMECE supports the process launched with the European Green Deal

Webnews, 12/12/2019

COMECE welcomes the ‘European Green Deal’ as presented today Wednesday 11 December 2019, at the European Parliament by EU Commission’s President Ms. Ursula von der Leyen. “It is very important that Europe takes the lead in the care for our environment” - states COMECE General Secretary, Fr. Manuel Barrios Prieto.

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09. December 2019

World Church leaders call upon COP25 for urgent climate action

Webnews, 09/12/2019

Following the recent Synod of the Bishops on Amazonia, the President of COMECE, H. Em. Card. Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ, together with other Catholic Church leaders from across all continents, issued a call upon policy makers participating in COP25 for immediate actions to be taken to tackle and overcome climate change.

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20. August 2019

Laudato Si‘: good practices of a spiritual and ecological conversion

Webnews, 20/08/2019

In Spring 2019 COMECE and its partners organised the Second European Laudato Si’ Reflection Day to sharpen the view on what is necessary and possible to do in order to facilitate the ecological conversion described in Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si’”.

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