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Day 2 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022
Humble leadership breaks down walls and builds up with love Readings Jeremiah 23:1-6 - He shall reign as king and deal wisely. Philippians 2:5-11 - Who… did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited. Reflection True...
Day 1 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022
Raise us up and draw us to your perfect light ~ Mt 2:2 Readings Psalm 139:1-10 - Your right hand shall hold me fast 2 Timothy 1:7-10 - This grace… has now been revealed through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus Reflection In this...
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022
Theme for 2022: We Saw His Star in the East… The story of the Magi visiting the Holy Family in Bethlehem is one very familiar to us. Indeed, we have recently celebrated Christmas; the Feast of Incarnation and Epiphany. The Magi have sometimes been seen as a symbol of...
Highlights from Our Justice Desk 2021
2021 was a busy year on our Justice Desk. Here are some of the highlights:
It is Good for Us to be Here: Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations
Book Review: It is Good for Us to be Here: Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations, 2015. This book was a really useful find for me even if eventually, it remains as a Kindle edition of 80 pages costing around 2 dollars from Amazon. It is a...
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. It was first launched in 1991, and is currently the most widely recognized and longest-running campaign for women’s rights in the world and is focused on...
OLA Ireland Supports the Make it Your Business Campaign
The Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights (ICBHR) is campaigning for new corporate accountability legislation to prevent abuses by making Irish-based companies accountable for a range of corporate human rights violations including forced labour, land grabs,...
Women’s Interfaith Council Awarded Aachen Peace Prize
The Aachen Peace prize was awarded to the Women’s Interfaith Council in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Saturday evening. The Women's Interfaith Council, which represents thousands of Muslim and Christian women in Kaduna, was founded by Kathleen McGarvey OLA, in 2010 with the...
We Need to Talk 2
Earlier this year, May 2021, AMRI hosted an online webinar in preparation for the synodal pathway for the Irish Church and the global Synod called by Pope Francis. We Need to Talk aimed to bring the voices of lay people to the Synodal table to envisage a more...
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