The text of Archbishop Justin Welby's New Year Message broadcast on BBC One on New Year's Day
Three wise men journeying to Kinsale; Irish Jewish museum to expand - locals object; Interview with Bishop Pat Storey; New form of Catholic mission in London; Former Archbishop of New Zealand knighted
Summaries with inks to the main reports, comments and articles
Review of reports with links to the GB media
Archbishop Justin Welby gave the final Thought for the Day of 2013 on BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday morning. He was invited to do so by the chief executive of Barclays, Anthony Jenkins, the programme's guest editor.
Today's reports including: Archbishop’s plea to Irish government to help stop mass migration; Rome v Canterbury, at cricket; Zimbabwe’s persecuted Anglicans
When Victor Griffin, a former dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, was in Derry he annoyed Protestants. In Dublin he upset Catholics. Now 89, he reflects on a changed Ireland, and on Charles Haughey’s good deeds - By Patsy McGarry , in The Irish TimesCompTIA sy0-301 exam dumps
By Maria Evans a member of the Episcopal Church
Reports include - Muslim greetings to Cork bishop
Church still better supported than football - Archbishop of York
Korean war ripples in Thurles
First Anglican breakaway monastery starts tomorrow
Persecution fears of India’s Christians
Alf McCreary reviews the churches' year in The Belfast Telegraph
By David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Includes reports on - Cathedral collects unwanted Christmas gifts; Kells to celebrate links with Columba/Columbkille; East Belfast church saved from wrecker’s ball; New diocesan youth centre opened
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Links to church-related media reports 24th - 27th December, 2013
By David Walker, Bishop of Manchester
View the stained glass window by Clarke chosen by the President of Ireland for his Christmas card this year. Warning - This bulletin also contains several items of light-hearted nature
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reports including - Networking for peacemakers; Labour must ‘do God’ to fight persecutions; BBC Nine Lessons on Radio3 tomorrow; Derek Jacobi in
The Bethlehem Tales
By GK Chesterton
Includes - Archbishops’ Christmas Broadcast; Glasgow church’s Advent Irn Bru; Church leaders appeal on Sudan; Derry’s Free Church - of Ireland; WCC welcome to Pope’s invite to evangelise
By John Betjeman
An update of communications from church leaders in Sudan, including a message from the Bishop of Maridi received today. Please use these to inform and shape prayer for our brothers and sisters in South Sudan.
Two reports on projects in Belfast which are challenging boundaries; Plus Irish, GB and World news
by Rev Fr Godfrey O’Donnell
, President,
Irish Council of Churches
Message of support from Bishop of Down to linked diocese; Anglican Communion churches express concern; Christian leaders say violence in South Sudan is political, not ethnic
Where would Jesus be born if this year were the first Christmas? Support a Belfast Cathedral poet in UK competition; See a Video of 1000 years of history of Christ Church Cathedral; Familiar Hymns and Carols as Gaeilge CD; Irish, GB and World news
By Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor
A review of church related news in the pressCisco 400-101
A Mandela moment is called for in South Sudan; Church Christmas ads campaign underway; Christians against Poverty centre opens in Connor parish - Irish, GB and world news
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori : “May you discover that humble authority born again on the edges of the world’s notice. May that royal inheritance and authority of the stable be born in you, enliven your heart, and rest on your shoulders.”