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Marnus Labuschagne, one of the Australian batsmen in the squad for the Ashes, is a committed Christian, who has an eagle sticker on his bat as a nod to his favourite Bible passage: Isaiah 40.31.
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Short reviews of four big events
A ‘Blessing of the Roads’ ceremony will take place in the Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul in Ennis. Looking forward to the August holiday weekend, Bishop Fintan Monahan, Bishop of Killaloe, asks all road users to take extra care over these three days.
The fact that young people have been sighted all over Garvagh this week – darting about in bright red t–shirts, doing good works in the village – can mean only one thing: this is SPARK Week.
Recalling August 2 - 4
Earlier this month, the CMSI (Church Missionary Society Ireland) family lost one of its much–loved elders, with the passing of Rev Canon Raymond Smith, who previously served as General Secretary of the society.
Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and inspirational founder of the HeartEdge movement, will deliver the 2019 Chalmers Lectures this autumn. Entitled ‘A Future that’s Bigger than the Past’, the six lectures will focus on the theology and methods of HeartEdge as a vision for renewal in the Church.
“Moneylenders are meeting a need for access to credit but often at a cost which people who are better off and who have other options would baulk at.”
It’s not often that an official statement from the Washington National Cathedral – the most famous icon of The Episcopal Church, and site of many state funerals and inaugural prayer services – contains words like “savage,” “dangerous,” “violent” and “dehumanizing.”
Church Army worker Emma Rodrigues with the Anglican Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achnonry, Patrick Rooke; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala, John Flemming; and the Church Army’s Issac Hanna at the launch of the Big Blue Bus in Ballina.
Church Army has three mission centres in Ireland
Ardmore, Co. Waterford is the most easterly parish in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. It is well known as a beautiful seaside resort. It is the site of the monastery founded by St. Declan (an older contemporary of St. Patrick) in the late fifth century.
“Holy, Holy, Holy!” has been chosen in a March Madness-like tournament as “the greatest hymn of all time.”
A school in Oxfordshire is being taken to court after being accused of hosting Christian assemblies which include "harmful and divisive messages".