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A mercy mission that began with a homily

by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events

The Baghdad Appeal has been making the news recently with coverage in The Stockton and Darlington Times and The Northern Echo. In the following article, originally published The Catholic Herald and re-published here by kind permission, the man behind the mission John...

Breaking the Silence

by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace

Bringing to light the true causes of the war in Congo with Reverend Theodore Ngoy, Congolese Pastor, Lawyer, elected Member of Parliament for Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and former candidate for the Presidential Elections in Congo. Thurs...

Bridging divisions in the world

by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations

Dean Brackley, S.J., a Jesuit priest in Latin America, will present a lecture in York entitled Crosses and Resurrections in El Salvador – The Wider North-South Divide and Our Vocation to Solidarity at 7.30pm on Friday 13th February 2009. Dean Brackley’s visit is...

Busking for CAFOD

by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations

We’ve heard about the runners, cyclists and fashion shows as fundraising activities but students from York University’s Catholic Chaplaincy took to the streets of York City Centre throughout advent to raise funds for CAFOD by busking. They braved the...

Sickness, hunger, starvation and death

by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Organisations

a bleak future for Zimbabweans A recent food security and livelihoods assessment carried out by Caritas Zimbabwe with support from aid agency CAFOD has shown that there is now very little to distinguish between the most vulnerable in society and everyone else in the...