Miscellaneous | Middlesbrough Diocese

Pope Leo XIV: Christians living amid war are seeds of peace

Michael McG — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:13:37 +0000

Pope Leo is inviting us to pray throughout December for Christian communities who live in war-torn or conflict zones. Leo XIV invites them to not feel abandoned and to be “seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope”, asking all Christians in the world “to not fall into indifference” and to be “builders of unity”. Builders of hope, […]

Source

Bishop Terry’s November Voice column

Michael McG — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:37:51 +0000

I sit down to write this column having just packed my case to set off on the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Rome. We are going, of course, to take part in the Jubilee Year as “pilgrims of hope”. We hope to be able to celebrate Mass in some of the “holy” places in Rome and to […]

Source

Bishop: Action needed to counter Sudan’s ‘immense human cost’

Michael McG — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:36:54 +0000

At the end of October, the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, western Sudan, fell to the Rapid Support Force (RSF) militia after 18 months under siege.Reports indicate widespread executions and mass displacement, with tens of thousands of civilians forced to flee or face violence. Approximately 250,000 civilians were trapped in the city before it fell.Bishop […]

Source