Conclusions of the annual Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy Rome (NEV), April 30, 2013 – The annual Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy (CELI) was held in Rome from 24 to 28 of April. The participants discussed about the true meaning of diakonia on the basis of a paper of the Waldensian theologian Paolo Ricca, [...]

Campaign against torture, prisons, drugs: in one day 10.000 signatures collected Rome (NEV), April 30, 2013 – Italian ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) is one of over thirty associations promoting the campaign “Three Laws for Justice and Rights. Torture, prisons, drugs”. The campaign started last April 9th in front of a number of Italian Courts, with [...]

FCEI asks politicians for to promote an organic law on religious freedom Rome (NEV), February 28, 2013 – In the period prior to recent elections Pastor Massimo Aquilante, President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), met Umberto Ambrosoli – who ran for the left wing in the Lombardy Region – asking him a precise commitment to remove [...]

Rome (NEV), February 28, 2013 – Many the comments from the Protestant world to the renunciation of Benedict XVI, which on the whole welcomed the news with appreciation and amazement. Pastor Massimo Aquilante, president of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), defined the decision very courageous and expressed the hope that the successor might re-open a process towards [...]

Am 1. März 2013 hat der Präsident des GAW, Wilhelm Hüffmeier, den neuen Vertrag zwischen dem GAW und der Waldenserkirche in Italien unterzeichnet. Die Waldenserkirche unterstützt seit Jahren aus Steuermitteln (otto per mille – OPM) soziale und diakonische Projekte in anderen Partnerkirchen des GAW. Mit dem neuen Vertrag für die Jahre 2013-15 bekräftigen die Waldenser nun dieses Engagement und weiten [...]

Rome (NEV), January 31, 2013 – In Lombardy (Northern Italy) more than 20 evangelical churches, without any kind of Agreement with the Italian State, have been forced to close because of a regional building law introduced in 2005 actually limiting the practice of worshipping however guaranteed by the Italian Constitution. Also other faith communities are in the same condition.

Lutherans, Mennonites and Catholics Meet in Rome ROME, Italy/GENEVA, 19 December 2012 (LWI) – The first ever international trilateral dialogue between the Catholics, Lutherans and Mennonites was held in Rome, 10-14 December, launching a five-year discussion focusing on baptism.

FDEI proposes a booklet Rome (NEV), November 30, 2012 – “16 days to overcome violence”, this is the title of the booklet proposed this year, by the Federation of evangelical women in Italy (FDEI) on occasion of the period which runs from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to December 10 (International Human Rights Day). [...]

Approval of a final document on the role of Protestants in the Public Sphere Rome (NEV), November 2012 – The XVI Assembly of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), held in Rome and Pomezia (Rome) from November 1 to 4, with the motto “To loose the chains of injustice” (Isaiah 58:6), re-elected for three more years, pastor Massimo [...]

The Assembly opens on the 1st of November in Rome with a public event at the Theatre Piccolo Eliseo with the participation of representatives of the Italian Protestantism and of the political world Pastor Massimo Aquilante, FCEI’s President declared: “It is in a time of deep crisis that we gather for our Assembly and we do not want to avoid [...]