Image of the day – Belfast City Hall tree
+People and places
Artists celebrate Columba’s 1500th anniversary
Popular Tullamore carol service is back next Sunday
Polar Express comes to Sydenham
Christmas Praise Drive In at Ballymena Livestock Yard
+Webinars, music, resources, broadcasts, and books
Disability and vocations
Canterbury Advent Carol Service recording online
+News Reports
Andy John is next Archbishop of Wales
First female Bishop in Japan and South East Asia elected
Pope: EU language curbs like a dictatorship
+Press review
Links to five press reports
+Perspective
Irish nationalists are forgetting their history by Vernon Bogdanor
+Poem for today
Desert Places by Robert Frost
For today’s issue click here – CNI December 8
CNI-December-8-2.pdf
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