About six weeks ago, reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire I wrote a poem that embodied my feelings at the time and over the following three decades, and I subsequently read it at a service in Clonard Monastery organised to mark both the IRA and later Loyalist ceasefires… On this day which marks the 30th anniversary […]
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God above, as we gather in the wake of the International Day of Peace, we acknowledge it is difficult at times to feel that our pleas for peace are heard. We have looked on in horror at Gaza for months with no end of conflict and devastation in sight. We think of Ukraine, of the
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The theme for this year’s International Day of Peace is Cultivating a Culture of Peace. People in various countries will be marking the day in a variety of ways. It will gain a certain amount of traction in social media, here in Northern Ireland it barely makes the news at all. When I’ve asked about
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A week after the deaths of those three children in their dance class in Southport, protests and riots have hit Southport, then Sunderland and now Belfast. The protests are against Muslims in our community. The 17 year old, accused of murdering the young girls was Muslim they say, therefore all Muslims were bad and needed
