The countdown is on as leaders of the city’s four main churches invite people to get on their bikes or put on their walking/running shoes for the Tour de Foyle 10–80 Charity Event, which will begin at the Foyle Arena on Saturday 27th August.
Following the announcement on Monday, 11th July of the Irish Men’s Hockey Squad to represent Team Ireland at the forthcoming Rio 2016 Olympic Games the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, has sent his congratulations and good wishes to each and every one of the chosen athletes, and particularly to the three Munster players from Cork: John Jermyn, David Harte and Conor Harte.
A number of clergy and parishioners from the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross took part in the recent Silent Walk marking World Refugee Day.
The members of the Cork Ecumenical Standing Committee – representatives appointed by their respective bishops or church authorities – recently accepted the invitation of Imam Ihab Ahmed to attend the Iftar meal with his Muslim community at the end of Ramadan.
St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, was packed on Sunday July 3 for a moving service to commemorate those who died or were injured or bereaved at the Battle of the Somme 100 years ago.
The following sermon was preached by the Rt Revd Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, at a Service of Peace and Reconciliation to commemorate the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme, on Friday, 1st July, 2016 in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork.
On Sunday 3rd July, Cloonclare Parish Church, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, hosted an Ecumenical Service of Commemoration to mark the centenary of both the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Battle of the Somme.