Photo above – Fr Eugene O’Hagan (centre) with Fr Anthony McAleese (left) and Fr Eugene O’Neill light the candle for victims of survivors and victims of abuse. Picture by Mal McCann. See Irish News report –
Annual day of prayer for survivors and victims of sexual abuse held in parishes across Ireland
The Irish News
The Catholic Church yesterday marked the annual day of prayer for survivors and victims of abuse with services in its parishes across Ireland.
[[] http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/02/29/news/annual-day-of-prayer-for-survivors-and-victims-of-sexual-abuse-held-in-parishes-across-ireland-1855118/ ]
Albert Smallwoods MBE – Derry churchman interviewed by Alf McCreary
Belfast Telegraph
Albert Smallwoods MBE is a leading Church of Ireland layman from Londonderry with long service to the Church and to developing world charities. “Faith has sustained many people who have faced unspeakably difficult circumstances… who can forget the Christian witness of Gordon Wilson, who lost his daughter, Marie, in the Enniskillen bombing?”
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/albert-smallwoods-faith-has-sustained-many-people-who-have-faced-unspeakably-difficult-circumstances-who-can-forget-the-christian-witness-of-gordon-wilson-who-lost-his-daughter-marie-in-the-enniskillen-bombing-39000342.html ]
Church of Ireland body’s pro-gay marriage stance hailed by same-sex campaign group
Belfast Newsletter
The campaign group Changing Attitude Ireland was reacting to news broken by the News Letter this week that the CoI Church and Society …
[[] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/church-ireland-bodys-pro-gay-marriage-stance-hailed-same-sex-campaign-group-2004045 ]
What next for Mary Lou and the Barbarians?
Tommie Gorman of RTE News
[[] https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2020/0229/1119391-mary-lou-barbarians/ ]
New home at Windsor for Falklands cross
Daily Telegraph
Report that a wooden cross made by the Welsh Guards during the Falklands conflict is to have a new home at the garrison church at Windsor.
[[] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/29/falklands-war-memorial-finds-new-home-st-davids-day/ ]
Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths
Guardian
[[] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/worse-than-flu-busting-coronavirus-myths ]
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