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Introducing CAFOD’s Lent Challenge – Walk For Water

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations

CAFOD Middlesbrough’s community participation coordinator CAROL CROSS introduces this year’s Lent Challenge, Walk for Water… It’s raining outside today, it’s cold and grey and my garden is flooded. I look out of the window with a sense of sadness and irony, just...

‘Pope’s Visit Will Help Us To Stay In Iraq’

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations, Pope Francis

Iraq’s Christians say Pope Francis’ planned visit gives them hope that they do have a future in their homeland – despite the genocide they suffered. Project partners of Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in the city of Qaraqosh (Baghdeda), which is on...

New Sunday Of The Word Of God Resources Released

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Catholic Bishop's Conference, Liturgy and Music, The God Who Speaks

A range of resources have been made available in the run up to the Pope’s new Sunday of the Word of God on January 24 as part of the God Who Speaks initiative. Click on the links below for more information. Sunday of the Word of God Blessing of Bibles Commissioning of...

SPUC Calls For Responses To Home Abortion Consultation

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Organisations, SPUC

The Department of Health is holding a public consultation on whether to continue the practice of allowing abortion providers to send abortion pills to women so that they can perform their own abortion at home. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is...

New Prayer Resource Brings Easter In The Holy Land To Life

by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Friends of the Holy Land, Organisations

The physical reality of Easter is captured in a new book which brings together voices from the first Holy Week with those from across the Holy Land in today’s Covid-hit world. With forewords by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Justin Welby, Holy Week Voices...