Month: January 2011

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Responses from the church

‘The heart of Christianity is hospitality’Jean Varnier in ‘Something Understood’, BBC Radio 4, Palm Sunday, 2009 ‘The command to love your neighbour extends to everybody who lives near you and everybody you meet in the six days between attending church. … We should avoid thinking of ‘church’ as simply a

Churches responses to immigration, asylum and racism

Research on church responses Many churches have responded to the challenge of increased migration and diversity with warmth and imagination, but a 2009 survey of faith leaders and laity in Ireland, by Dr Gladys Glaniel of the Irish School of Ecumenics, reveals that such actions are patchy. The northern responses