28 September 2020
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“The potential scale of the pandemic across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East – as well as among refugee and displaced populations in places such as Syria, South Sudan and the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh – is truly frightening,” said Christine Allen, the director of Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), the international…
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At least 29 Filipinos including 18 health workers are thought to have died in the United Kingdom while a number of others are in critical condition due to coronavirus. Some 21 of these people were confirmed to have died from the virus while the other eight are suspected to have died from Covid-19, according to British media reports….
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Men of humour – lighthearted or dry. Men of prayer, men of joy! As a teenager, Owen Grant shared how he cycled from New Castle to Freshfield (200km) with his friend to a Zealoters Day or “come and see” weekend in their passion to become to missionaries, falling off the bicycles a few times in…
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It is with regret that we inform you of the death on the 9th of April, 2020 at Southport Hospital, Merseyside, United Kingdom at the age of 89 of Father John Sweeney Mill Hill Missionary May he rest in peace Fr. John Sweeney was born in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in the south east…
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Raworth’s 2017 bestselling book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, has graced the bedside table of people ranging from the former Brexit secretary David Davis to the Guardian columnist George Monbiot, who described it as a “breakthrough alternative to growth economics”. The inner ring of her doughnut sets out the minimum we…
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I conclude that every word of the 27 documents that this extraordinary library that is the New Testament contains was written by good Jews, and that it is unfounded, even perverse, to call it ‘anti-Jewish’. We must however confess, to our shame, that Christians, as well as Jews, have often read the New Testament in…
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It is with regret that we inform you of the death on the 3rd of April, 2020 at Southport Hospital, Merseyside, United Kingdom at the age of 80 of Father Owen Grant Mill Hill Missionary May he rest in peace Fr. Owen Grant was born on the 11th of November, 1939 in the town of…
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TRUST (Mk 4,38) Off we go. All aboard ! All agreed, of one accord. See how the fishermen have scored; All big and little fish still stored, Some to eat and some to hoard – Hard work’s happy just reward. Don’t leave the Lord! With him around, our hopes have soared But soon, and not…
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What if the psalmist were alive in the age of COVID-19? How would his lamentations speak to the times? This is a question a group of choral singers have tried to answer – with tongue firmly implanted in cheek – in a YouTube video that has gone viral in Britain: “O Lord, to whom ǀ…
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Liverpool council’s decision in January 2020 to contextualise streets named after slave traders shed important light on the town’s infamous history as one of the world’s largest slave trading ports. Between 1696 and 1807 – when Britain abolished its slave trade – Liverpool merchants forcibly transported a phenomenal 1.3 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Of these men, women,…
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In 2010, Margot Wallstrom, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, called the DR Congo the “rape capital of the world.” This Lent, Catholics in Scotland are being asked to help the victims of sexual violence in the Congo through the Wee Box campaign sponsored by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF). …………………..
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MILL HILL MISSIONARIES
6, Colby Gardens
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 7GZ
T: 01628 673178
E: office@millhillmissionaries.com