Posted on 30. Apr, 2015 in Charity, Christian Values, Gospel Values, Humanitarian Aid
The International Society for Human Rights has found that 80% of religious discrimination in the world today is directed at Christians. It is intensifying in the Middle East and North Aftica where Only in the last week, there was the brutal murder of at least 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. However there hasn’t been much […]
Posted on 19. Mar, 2015 in Charity, Christian Values, Gospel Values, Music
“If Jesus comes tomorrow, what then?” is the latest single release from the Irish country singer. This classic country song was from the pens of Nashville writing legends Max D. Barnes, Vern Gosdin. Kilbane now puts his Irish country touch on this classic tune. The quote from John 2:5 at the start is from the Wedding at Cana.
Posted on 06. Nov, 2014 in Charity, Chronic illness
Alzheimer Cafes provide a warm and welcoming space for people with dementia, their family and friends and social and health care professionals to meet, exchange insights and ideas. They are run for a few hours on the same evening each month and are led by a mix of organisations, professionals, carers, people with dementia and […]
Posted on 02. Oct, 2014 in Charity, Church Teachings
Founded in 2002, the Vincentian Lay Missionaries (VLM) aims to support the building of a future for those most in need in the poorest areas of Ethiopia and more recently Nigeria. It also aims to highlight the global issue of poverty, to advocate and to support action for change. VLM encourages lay people to go […]
Posted on 18. Sep, 2014 in Charity, Christian Values, Humanitarian Aid
The GAA All Ireland Championship Final is talking place this weekend. 82,000 people will take up seats in Croke Park. It’s one of the biggest crowds we can imagine. But Fr. Robert McCabe, priest in the Diocese of Meath wants people to go further in imagining multiples of this crowd on the march and displaced […]
Posted on 25. Apr, 2014 in Charity, Humanitarian Aid, Poverty
Conor Deane went to speak with Eamonn Meehan CEO of Trócaire about Remembering Rwanda 20 Years On. Remembering Rwanda 20 Years On. The genocide against the Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994 was one of the most horrific chapters of the 20th century. In just 100 days up to one million people were killed, mostly […]
Posted on 25. Apr, 2014 in Achievement, Charity, Community, Fundraising, Music
Fr Ray Kelly is literally an overnight celebrity sensation thanks to the power and reach of YouTube and his own gifts as a talented singer. Here he shares the news of his new found fame with Conor Deane and even performs a favourite tune in his private studio at his parochial house in Oldcastle Co. […]
Posted on 04. Apr, 2014 in Charity, Community, Gospel Values, Prayer, Uncategorized, Vocation
Conor Deane went out to Stillorgan to talk with Frank Bodley about his initiative to get the faithful praying for the seminarians. The initiative began in 2008 and today it has almost 4,000 people now praying with Frank for a particular seminarian without the knowledge of that seminarian until many years later and by accident […]
Posted on 19. Dec, 2013 in Charity, Christian Values, Church Teachings, Community, Faith and Justice, Feminism/Women in the Church, Fundraising, Gospel Values, Humanitarian Aid
All Hallows Theology & Psychology Student Orla Cashell has embarked with some fellow students from the National College of Ireland on a dedicated campaign to help the homeless this Christmas in a very specific way. Her idea is simple. Orla is asking that we would donate 1 thing to help the homeless this Christmas so […]
Posted on 28. Nov, 2013 in Charity, Community, Health, HIV/Aids
This year to mark World Aids Day, Trocaire will be presenting a special photographic exhibition. World Aids Day, Sunday 1st Dec 2013 www.trocaire.org/hiv World Aids Day is an internationally recognised day to raise awareness about the fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV and to […]