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Bishops' Statement on Second Reading of Assisted Suicide Bill (added 30/11/2024)

Ian Linden: The Pope and Gaza: Reply to Conference of European Orthodox Rabbis (added 29/11/2024)

COP29 climate finance deal 'falls short' says Bishop Arnold (added 27/11/2024)

Archbishops of Canterbury and Jerusalem joint Advent message (added 26/11/2024)

Domestic abuse – 16 days of activism (added 25/11/2024)

Marching for Global Climate Justice (added 16/11/2024)

Call for a Laudato Si' Centre in every diocese (added 17/10/2024)

Message of the Holy Father for World Food Day, 2024 (added 17/10/2024)

A Hospital Chaplain's Opposition to Assisted Dying (added 17/10/2024)

Prisoners' Sunday Message from Cardinal Vincent Nichols (added 12/10/2024)

Decarbonisation Net Zero Programme Newsletter (added 27/09/2024)

Holy See issues new statement on nuclear weapons (added 25/09/2024)

Medaille Trust launches project to counter widespread exploitation of asylum seekers (added 25/09/2024)

World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (added 19/09/2024)

Lord Alton: Famine is no longer a threat in Sudan, it is a reality (added 18/09/2024)

Autumn 2024 issue of Vocation for Justice (added 06/09/2024)

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Is it worth Offsetting? (added 19/08/2024) Click on image to see full article

Reflection: Assumption of Mary I remember a visit to a hospice where the couple could only speak limited English. They were a young couple and they married in the hospital once they realised how serious the illness had become. When I visited them, I couldn’t get over the smile of the woman who was the patient – she was beaming. Without words we enjoyed looking at their wedding photos on the phone. Death was there obviously – it was tragic – but love was so clearly stronger than death and it’s love that would endure in that situation, as it always does. Pope Pius XII, who defined the Assumption, hoped that “faith in Mary assumed into heaven would make our faith in our own resurrection more secure and fruitful”. One day, please God, we too will rise in glory. I know it’s odd to think about that or it even feels a little morbid, but it is so central to our lives (earthly and eternally). This dogma was declared in the aftermath of war and this is significant because with all the loss of life, when races and peoples were condemned to death, where humanity was cancelled out, precisely then the Church says look to Mary, who was assumed into heaven – body and soul. The assumption is love writ large: that the whole human person matters, that all of the self is cherished in this world and in the world to come. As war and conflict continue, we mark today’s feast which isn’t only about Mary, it’s about us. Fr Ryan Service, Assistant Priest at Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield (added 19/08/2024)

'Just Politics' at NJPN Conference 2024 (added 23/07/2024)

London 22nd June 2024: Link to YouTube (added 23/06/2024)

New Chair for charity supporting Christians in the Holy Land (added 16/05/2024)

Coventry Peace Vigil Each Friday 12 noon to 1pm (added 09/04/2024)

How to be a synodal Church in mission? Guidelines for work in view of the 2024 Assembly released (added 16/12/2023)

Listening to Christians in the Holy Land (added 30/11/2024)

Ukraine: People 'need God' after 1,000 days of war (added 29/11/2024)

COP29 has fallen completely flat - CAFOD (added 26/11/2024)

Bishops call for compassionate action against Assisted Suicide (added 16/11/2024)

Laudato Si' Animators write to Prime Minister (added 06/09/2024)

St Albans Macclesfield J & P group have excelled themselves this year for the Season of Creation joining with many churches and other groups in the area. There events under the Pax Christi umbrella - a Peace Pilgrimage and Peace Conference plus information about a book, a play and a film about the atomic bomb. I have included something about Myamar (Burma) as positive things are happening there but it tends to be off our radar as we hear about things nearer home - Ukraine, Gaza and the recent unrest in our own country . The Burma campaign would like us to write to David Lamay our new Foreign Secretary as they fear it may be off his radar too. (added 06/09/2024)

Archbishop Bernard's call to celebrate the Season of Creation ¬ Archbishop Bernard has released a video ahead of the Season of Creation to encourage you to take up the opportunity which the Holy Father has given us to celebrate the Season. He says: “As you may know this is something growing year by year as we become more and more aware of our calling as Christians to have a care for the whole of the Created world… “Pope Francis is asking us to think about how we care for the whole of Creation as an expression of our own Christian Faith and is referring us to St Paul’s letter to the Romans, which speaks about the whole of Creation groaning, but also looking for the freedom which Christ brings us as children of God… “Hope and Act with Creation is the theme for this year, and I hope you’ll be able to pray that we and others will value all that we have in creation as a way of praising god and also caring for those who are most in need.” You can find the full celebration guide as well as other prayers and resources on the Diocesan website.Archbishop Bernard's call to celebrate the Season of Creation ¬ Archbishop Bernard has released a video ahead of the Season of Creation to encourage you to take up the opportunity which the Holy Father has given us to celebrate the Season. He says: “As you may know this is something growing year by year as we become more and more aware of our calling as Christians to have a care for the whole of the Created world… “Pope Francis is asking us to think about how we care for the whole of Creation as an expression of our own Christian Faith and is referring us to St Paul’s letter to the Romans, which speaks about the whole of Creation groaning, but also looking for the freedom which Christ brings us as children of God… “Hope and Act with Creation is the theme for this year, and I hope you’ll be able to pray that we and others will value all that we have in creation as a way of praising god and also caring for those who are most in need.” You can find the full celebration guide as well as other prayers and resources on the Diocesan website. (added 19/08/2024)

Biodiversity does matter! That is according to young winners of the 2024 Columban Schools Competition in Britain who recently submitted image and print entries on the theme, ‘Biodiversity Matters’. (added 16/05/2024)

'Restore Nature Now' March and Service (added 16/05/2024)

Laudato Si' Week to focus on 'Seeds of Hope' (added 15/05/2024)

Christians Aware: 'Care for Creation by the World Faiths' (added 03/08/2024)

Webinar: Animal rights a key issue in care of the environment (added 27/03/2024)