Photo – The Good Samaritan window, Belfast Cathedral
BBC News: NI newspapers: Pain, pay and who’s wearing the trousers?
Monday’s papers focus on weekend tragedies, Stormont’s power struggle and a school uniform dispute.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43369451
Dromore Priest ‘told to leave parish’ in letter
Fr Charles Byrne told Sunday mass-goers in Hilltown of the ‘abusive’ letter he had received.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43364992
BBC News: Newspaper headlines: Poison clothes alert and ‘spitting storm’
Advice to residents in the wake of a nerve agent attack and a picture of Jamie Carragher make the front pages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-43367131
Further coverage in the aftermath of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. The reports quote the Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam, who said the attack on Mr Skripal and his daughter was a ‘violation’ of the city.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43360420
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-03-11/russian-spy-attack-more-than-240-witnesses-and-200-pieces-of-evidence-identified/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5487395/Health-advice-issued-Salisbury-visitors-spy-poisoning-probe.html
Global News report (News and Current Affairs division of the Global Television Network in Canada) on the Church of England Lent challenge to reduce single use plastic. Includes interviews with Claire Seaton, of St Bride’s Church choir in London and Ruth Knight, Environmental Policy Officer for the Church of England
https://globalnews.ca/video/4075649/plastic-fast-for-lent
Report that Ven Dr John Perumbalath has been nominated as the next Bishop of Bradwell in the Diocese of Chelmsford. He succeeds the late Bishop John Wraw.
https://asianlite.com/news/uk-news/dr-john-perumbalath-next-bishop-of-bradwell/
Reports on penalty imposed following determination of a Disciplinary Tribunal for the Diocese of Oxford.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-43367265
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/11/tim-davis-oxfordshire-church-england-vicar-spiritually-abused-boy-two-year-ban-from-ministry
Report on outcome of disciplinary process for a Church of England rector (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese) who had admitted voyeurism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-43347721
Report on new BBC Two programme Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago with seven celebrities taking part including broadcaster and Gogglebox star Rev Kate Bottley.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5487317/Celebs-500-mile-ancient-pilgrimage-Spanish-cathedral.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Interview with David Suchet on faith and organised religion following the making of Question of Faith, a 10-part podcast for Audible.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/religious-fanatics-lead-suchet-to-question-his-faith-nwvs6ch5d
Profile of philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer who bought Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 2012.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/luxury/great-estates-man-mission-revitalise-north-east-renovating-ancient/
Report on newly uncovered medieval graffiti fround in the tower of St John’s Church, Winchester and how this sheds new light on the thinking of people around the time of the Black Death, according to experts.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/11/medieval-graffiti-uncovered-hampshire-church-sheds-new-light/
Comment – Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill: praying God’s mercy to light the candle of motherhood
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/praying.gods.mercy.to.light.the.candle.of.motherhood/127191.htm
Rwanda closes hundreds of churches and arrests pastors
https://www.religionnews.com/2018/03/07/rwanda-closes-hundreds-of-churches-and-arrests-pastors/
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