Liverpool FC Community Department is to make a return visit to Belfast this summer to join a Church of Ireland youth initiative in the Upper Shankill area. Running from Thursday 17-Saturday 19 August, some 300 youngsters are expected to attend a three-day soccer school and life skills programme.
08 August 2006
Salah Salam, the mayor of the Lebanese town of Qana in which an apartment building was bombed July 31 by the Israeli military, says that humanitarian aid is desperately needed in his city and elsewhere in Lebanon.
08 August 2006
When I wrote to you last Friday, I could not have imagined that a second Qana Massacre in a decade would be carried out by the State of Israel on Sunday when they dropped two bombs on a house, crushing at least fifty-six people, including thirty-four children and twelve women.
02 August 2006
At a meeting on the 31st July, the College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church expressed its deep concern at the continuing conflict in Israel, Lebanon and Gaza.
01 August 2006
On Saturday July 29, Caritas Jerusalem's President HB Msgr. Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem accompanied by the Rt. Reverend Bishop Munib Younan, the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and Bishop Riah Abu Al Assal, Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East with other religious leaders visited the Gaza Strip to show solidarity with the people living there.
01 August 2006
For the past forty years we have been largely alone on this desert fighting a predator that not only has robbed us of all but a small piece of our historic homeland, but threatens the traditions and holy sites of Christianity. We are tired, weary, sick, and wounded. We need your help.
27 July 2006
The Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin have approved an emergency allocation of 20,000 pounds from Bishops Appeal funds to help with the settlement of displaced persons during the current Middle East crisis
26 July 2006
I write to you out of concern at events surrounding a service for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene held at St Saviour's church in Riga on Saturday 22nd July.
26 July 2006
The Bishop of London, Rt Revd Richard Chartres, featured on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, on Monday morning spoke about the environment and the Church of England's 'Shrinking the Footprint' campaign.
26 July 2006
The Revd Stuart Kenworthy, rector of Christ Church, Georgetown, took leave from his parish in January to serve as an Army chaplain with the 372nd Military Police Battalion in Iraq.
21 July 2006