Observatory Friends

Bahá’í Community of Barcelona The Bahá’í Community of Barcelona, like other Bahá’í communities around the world, acts in a learning and action mode and is open to all people who strive to promote unity, to contribute to the emergence of a new civilisation and to alleviate human suffering. Their efforts are aimed at establishing a […]

HUFFINGTON ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University follows the pioneering work of Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Popes during the last forty years in rapprochement between the Churches of Constantinople, Canterbury, and Rome. Thanks to significant gifts from Michael Huffington and the Archangel Michael Foundation, Loyola Marymount University has established a unique institute […]

EDITORIAL CLARET Editorial Claret publishing house is an initiative of the Claretian Missionaries of Catalonia whose mission is to promote the awakening, initiation, formation and transmission of the Christian faith, and in general of humanising values, through the publication, sale and distribution of books and audiovisual materials. This is how the dream of Saint Anthony […]

HERDER EDITORIAL Herder Editorial is a German publishing house that has been publishing in Spanish since 1887 and in Catalan since 1968. Since the 1960s, they have been publishing at their Barcelona headquarters on Carrer Provença, just a stone’s throw from the Sagrada Família. Gaudí’s temple reminds them of the Christian roots of the publishing […]

FRAGMENTA EDITORIAL Fragmenta editorial is an independent publishing house that publishes classical books and essays in the humanities, especially in the philosophical and religious fields. They approach the latter from a strictly non-denominational perspective and, in this sense, publish ‘non-religious books about religions’, that is, books that can be read by everyone, which do not […]

CATALUNYA RELIGIÓ Catalunya Religió is an internet portal dedicated to visualising the relevance of religion in a democratic and plural society. Its mission is to promote the public presence of religion in Catalonia and to defend the right to religious freedom. To do so, they are true to their vision: To promote the public presence […]

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC) The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes three issues per year. This publication is a cooperation with the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC). Understanding religion today requires understanding how religious ideas and practices are communicated, learned, […]

MCGRATH INSTITUTE FOR CHURCH LIFE The McGrath Institute for Church Life is an academic department within the University of Notre Dame that serves the wider Church through the development of faithful Catholic leaders. Now more than ever, our Church thirsts for innovative thinkers who are deeply committed to the faith and their calling, to continual […]

DUBLIN CITY INTERFAITH FORUM (DCIF) The Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF) is a network of people from a wide variety of religious communities in the Irish city. They seek to raise awareness of diversity of faith and culture through interfaith dialogue and cooperation, all from the vision of a society based on mutual respect, cooperation […]

ORTHODOX ACADEMY OF CRETE (OAC) The fundamental mission of the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC) is the dialogical witness and liturgical ministry of Orthodoxy in the modern world. To do so, they are dedicated to cultivating the spirit of dialogue between Orthodoxy and other existing confessions, as well as between faith, science and culture. They […]