A few decades ago, the most recent revision of the Bible is back. A standard translation for German-speaking countries was last made in the 1970s. Since then, this version has been working. Until September 20, Autumn Plenary Assembly of German Bishops. Because here was the newly revised Bible presented.
Accepting the proposal of the Regional Committee of the Central European Subregion of the Catholic Biblical Federation, the Executive Committee in its ordinary session held in Rome on November 9-11, named Father Eduard Patrascu Coordinator of the Central European Subregion.
Father Patrascu succeeds Mr. Wolfgang Baur in the Coordination of the Subregion, to whom we thank for his commitment and dedication.
After some years of suspension, a new edition of the Dei Verbum Course in a renewed form has been announced for September 4 - November 4, 2019.
From Catalonia we have just received the sad news of the death of Javier Velasco Arias - "an enthusiast of the Bible" as he used to present himself.
On March 3rd, at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, in the presence of His Eminence Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ, the international scientific colloquium on “Animatio biblica totius actionis pastoralis, Bible – Pastoral – Didactics”, to which scientists from Europe, America, Africa and Asia took part, opened.
The delegates of the member institutions of the Catholic Biblical Federation of the European Western and Central subregion came together in Taragona (Catalunya, Spain), from October 13-16 in the annual meeting of the subregion.
On October 3, 2016 the President of CBF, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the President of the Administrative Board of CBF, Bishop Bernhard Haßlberger, the Treasurer of CBF, Sr. Holger Sichler and the Secretary General of CBF, Rev. Jan Stefanów, S.V.D., were received by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and President of the German Episcopal Conference in his office in Munich.
During the weekend 28-30 January 2016, the Scientific Colloquium was held on the theme "Sacramentalité de la Parole" organized by theLuxembourg School of Religion and Society (LSRS).
