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Baby Hospice Appeals For Vital Funds

by Michael McG | Mar 28, 2019 | Appeals and Special Events

Middlesbrough’s only dedicated baby hospice has made a desperate appeal for support to prevent it from having to close its doors for two days a week. Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice issued a rallying call to the public to ensure this essential and unique service remains in...

Appeal For Urgent Help After Cyclone

by Michael McG | Mar 22, 2019 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD Appeals

CAFOD is appealing for help as it seeks to provide urgent humanitarian for the millions of people made homeless by Cyclone Idai. The charity says its priority is to reach the most vulnerable with food and clean water, basic shelter and hygiene kits in Mozambique,...

Pray For Seafarers At Lindisfarne Pilgrimage

by Michael McG | Mar 21, 2019 | Apostleship of the Sea, Pilgrimage

Apostleship of the Sea invites you to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne for a peaceful day of prayer and reflection on Saturday June 8. Parish groups, families and individuals all welcome to join them and pray for seafarers and for everyone involved in our ministry and...

Faith Renewed With Pope Francis In The Sun

by Michael McG | Mar 6, 2019 | Appeals and Special Events, Pope Francis, World Youth Day

A group of 20 young people from our diocese plus Bishop Terry, Father William Massie, Father Phil Cunnah, Deacon Peter Taylor and two Franciscan sisters, flew out from Newcastle to Panama City – via Heathrow and Bogota – to join Pope Francis for World Youth Day. One...

Study Day Explores Pope’s Vision For Missionary Parishes?

by Michael McG | Mar 6, 2019 | Diocese, Study Days

Bishop Terry is inviting clergy and lay-faithful to a study day to explore Pope Francis’ vision of what the Church needs to be both now and in the future. Priests and deacons and two specially chosen representatives from each parish in the diocese will be asked to...