CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 12 December 1998
The final tranche of applications for 1998 has been
considered by the Bishops' Appeal, which is the Church of Ireland's
vehicle for supporting the developing world, and £110,060 has been
allocated to 12 projects in seven countries.
During 1998 more than 80 good causes were considered,
of which half received grants There are already 22 applications on the
list for 1999.
The most recent grants have been for projects in
Asia, Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Assistance has been
given to flood relief programmes in Bangladesh and Honduras while in
Haiti support has been offered to health and agricultural programmes.
In the Dominican Republic, grants have been given for
social work among mixed ethnic communities, drug-dealers and street
children; to a women's movement to assist with health education and
training for young people and to promote the rights of women who are
exploited in the sugar-cane industry.
The dioceses of Tanganyika, Mpwapwa and Ruvuma in
Tanzania have been awarded grants totalling £22,000 for healthcare,
agricultural development and medical assistance. These funds will be
channelled through Christian Aid. Funds have been made available for
rural development and programmes for farmers in the Gambia.
The CMSI development in Fort Portal, Uganda where
Norman and Isobel Jackson have been working since April 1998, has been
given £8,750 to assist with a community training programme.
This evening Amnesty International will hold its
carols for freedom event in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Tomorrow, RTÉ will broadcast morning service from
Killeigh, Co Offaly, conducted by the Archdeacon of Meath and Kildare,
the Ven Patrick Lawrence. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey,
will dedicate a new stained glass window in Rathmichael while the Bishop
of Limerick, the Rt Rev Edward Darling, will preach in St Mary's
Cathedral.
In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, the Bishop of Cork, the
Rt Rev Roy Warke, will preach at evensong when representatives of the
diocese and the city will gather to mark the retirement of the bishop,
which takes effect from the end of the month.
In Dublin, there will be a service of carols for all
in St Patrick's Cathedral in the afternoon, while in the evening in St
Bartholomew's parish church, there will be the annual concert of carols
and readings with the actor and director Alan Stanford, and the boys and
men of the parish choir.
The choir of Christ Church Cathedral will lead a
festival of nine lessons and carols in Arklow parish church.
Services in Trinity College chapel have ended for the
Michaelmas term and will resume with morning prayer on Monday, January
11th, at 9.15a.m.
Tomorrow morning, the Chapel Choir will sing choral
eucharist in St Peter's parish church, Belfast, and choral evensong in
St Malachi's parish church, Hillsborough. The Church of Ireland
chaplain, the Rev Dr Alan McCormack, will preach at both services and
the Roman Catholic chaplain, Father Aidan Larkin, will also be present.
On Thursday, the Christ Church Cathedral girls' choir
will sing at a lunchtime carol service in aid of the Leonard Cheshire
Foundation. In the evening, in Lisburn, Canon Brian Moller will be
installed as Dean of Connor in Christ Church Cathedral.
Canon Moller, who is rector of St Bartholomew's
parish in Belfast, has been a member of the cathedral chapter since 1990
and is a member of a distinguished Lisburn cathedral family.
Ms Thelma Mehaffey, dioceses of Derry and Raphoe, has
been re-elected as All-Ireland president of the Mothers' Union. During
her forthcoming term of office, Mothers' Union members from England,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland will hold their general meeting in Belfast
for the first time.
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