Welcome our guest from Minsk

On the weekend of 3rd and 4th September we will welcome a visiting sister from the Convent of St Elisabeth the New Martyr in Belarus. She will give a presentation on the history and service of their community aimed at helping the patients of the local psychiatric hospital, children without parental support and sufferers from drug and alcohol dependence. A stall will be arranged to sell products...
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Living on the edge of the impenetrable forest

In 2006 Dr Paul Williams left his job as a GP in Stockton to volunteer in a small clinic in a remote part of Uganda where malaria was a big killer, HIV affected every family and mothers often died in childbirth. “I went to a place with no roads, phones or power. Where would you start?” Almost five years later he returned to Teesside having helped transform local heath services. He...
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Coffee Morning in aid of East African crisis

There will also be a coffee morning in support of CAFOD’s appeal in The Blue Bell Hotel on Saturday 23rd July, from 12 noon until 2pm Donations of bottles, etc for a tombola would be gratefully accepted and can be dropped off at Maureen Dowd’s home (94 Low Lane).
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CAFOD Self-sufficiency Campaign

Do we want to help people to help themselves: to enjoy the satisfaction of earning a living and not relying on hand-outs? Catholic social teaching has long acknowledged the dignity of the worker and his right to a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. Pope Paul V1 in his encyclical ‘Popularum Progressio‘, and, more recently, Pope Benedict in ‘Caritas in...
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