Dear friends, dear members of SIESC – EFCT,
SIESC invites you to its annual meeting in Brussels in 2012
Next year’s meeting will continue the topic of 2009 under the title “The position and the role of religions and churches in a Europe of multiple convictions”. After an introduction into the specific situation of religions and churches in Europe and the world today by Father Madélin SJ, we are going to ask representatives of European politics what they expect of religions, churches and Christian teachers, and representatives of COMECE and CCEE what they expect of European politics and Christian teachers. Our aim is to get to better know the European institutions and the possibilities how to introduce Christian values in the processes of the EU and the Council of Europe. That’s also a way of discovering SIESC’s role in the construction of the Europe of the future better. Colleagues of all denominations and also other convictions in Belgium and Brussels will be invited.
It’s Ana Maria Serrano Bascopé, individual member of SIESC, who had the idea of a meeting in Belgium and has worked very much with respect to topic and preparation. And also other members of SIESC have been found who will collaborate with Ana Maria.
The meeting will take place from July 25th (evening) to 31st (morning), July 30th being dedicated to an optional excursion.
We will be accommodated at Maison Notre-Dame du Chant d’Oiseau, Avenue des Franciscains 3 a, B-1150 Bruxelles (www.chant-oiseau.be), which is near to the town centre and near to the European institutions and which offers all the preconditions we need.
Brussels has such a lot of interesting places and cultural assets that we will have to choose the objects of our visits very carefully. In Brussels there are also centres of EU politics, which one should know to understand the political processes better.
The excursion will take us to Leuven, a splendid Gothic town and seat of the Catholic University of Louvain, founded in 1425 and now called Katholicke Universiteit van Leuven. In the afternoon we will got to Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, a dynamic, modern and intercultural town and seat of the French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain.
We hope to meet you in Brussels.
Ana Maria Serrano Bascopé Wolfgang Rank