{"id":342204,"date":"2013-08-25T04:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-2014-st-ulrich-award-conferred-on-together-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:04","slug":"the-2014-st-ulrich-award-conferred-on-together-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-2014-st-ulrich-award-conferred-on-together-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2014 St Ulrich Award conferred on “Together for Europe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe are pleased and grateful for this honour,\u201d commented Gerhard Pross, spokesperson of the German project committee. \u201cFor us this provides a further boost that the spirit of \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d \u2013 communion and Christian values \u2013 might shine more in society and in the Churches.\u201d Past award winners have included ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Polish Archbishop Emeritus Alfons Nossol; and the Community of St. Egidio. \"\"\u201cTogether for Europe\u201d<\/a> began in Ottmaring, Germany on the day of the signing of the historic \u201cJoint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification\u201d (October 31, 1999). On that same day several Catholic and Evangelical Movements and New Communities were gathered at the Ecumenical Centre of Ottmaring to begin living the Gospel together. Gradually, \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d emerged as \u201ca free encounter between Christian movements \u2013 Catholics, Evangelicals, members of the Reformed Church, Anglicans and Orthodox. While remaining autonomous they act together on set occasions, offering the contribution of their particular charism and spirituality.\u201d Their principle objective is to work together at \u201cincrementing Europe\u2019s Christian soul\u201d. The St Ulrich Award was instituted in 1993 by the European St. Ulrich Foundation in Dillingen, the birthplace of the saint, on the thousandth anniversary of his beatification. There is a strong push in this city and the surrounding region to work for peace and for the building of a Europe founded on Christian values. The award is conferred every two years<\/strong> on individuals, projects or institutions involved in the political, religious, cultural, scientific, economic or social sphere for the unity of Europe in accordance with the spirit of St Ulrich. In the reasons set out for the 2014 Award it is stated that: \u201cthe Together for Europe<\/em> network is committed to the promotion of a culture of communion and to a supportive community in Europe founded upon Christian values. It favours the development of freedom and humanitarian efforts which have been undermined by the financial and economic crises in Europe\u201d. Endowed with 10,000 Euro, the Award will be given to the \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d International Guidance Committee in May 2014 in Dillingen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Dillingen, Germany, has announced that the prestigious \u201cEuropean St Ulrich Award\u201d 2014 is to be awarded to the ecumenical \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}