by Michael McG | Jan 18, 2021 | Depaul UK, Organisations
Depaul UK – a national homelessness charity that supports more than 3,400 young people each year – is calling on the government to build on its previous efforts to protect homeless people. With the current national lockdown in response to the more infectious strain of...
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | Pope Francis, Aid the the Church in Need (ACN), Organisations
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 15, 2021 | SPUC, Organisations
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...
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...
by Michael McG | Jan 5, 2021 | Ampleforth Abbey, Bishop Terry
Bishop Terry will preside in a ceremony at a date to be arranged to bless Dom Robert Igo, who has been elected ninth Abbot of Ampleforth. Dom Robert was elected on Tuesday January 5 in the presence of Abbot Paul Stonham OSB, delegate of the president of the English...