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Downpatrick!
For the past few years, the Fermanagh Churches Forum has organized an annual trip to continue our shared interfaith journey. This year we will be visiting Downpatrick, with guided tours of the Saint Patrick Centre and Down Cathedral.
The trip will take place on Saturday 4th September and the cost per person will be £12, including [...]
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Walking Together in Lisbellaw
Lisbellaw Methodist Church, the first stop on our walk around the churches of the village. We will also visit the Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Catholic churches and will finish the afternoon with a cup of tea at the Methodist church hall. All are very welcome.
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Pentecost service
This year’s Pentecost Open-air Interdenominational Service will take place on Sunday 23rd May at 3.00pm at the Round Tower Cemetery, Clones. It will be led by the Catholic and Anglican Bishops of Clogher, Bishop Duffy and Bishop [...]
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Gladys on the run…
Gladys Ganiel from the Irish School of Ecumenics, who has visited the Fermanagh Churches Forum on several occasions recently, is running in the London Marathon this year to raise funds for Zimbabwe Orphan Care. Gladys races competitively for Abbey AC in Belfast, winning the Northern Ireland cross country championships back in February and running a [...]
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Lough Derg Day of Friendship and Prayer
On Saturday 17th April the community at Lough Derg will hold a Day of Friendship and Prayer, open to all, with Bishop Ken Good as special guest speaker. Boats will travel to the island from 10.30 am and Bishop Good will speak at 12 noon. After a simple lunch of soup and sandwiches, there will [...]
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Copenhagen cop out?
On Friday March 19th, from 8 to 10pm at the Clinton Centre, Enniskillen, we are holding an evening entitled Cop out at Copenhagen? Where next for the climate change campaign? Dave Thomas from Christian Aid and Elaine Smith and Siobhan Scullion from Trocaire will speak about what did (and didn’t) happen at Copenhagen and how [...]
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Lenten lunches
Following the very enjoyable and inspiring lunchtime reflections during Lent last year, we are again organizing four Lenten lunches on Wednesdays between 1 and 2pm. Each will begin with a simple shared meal, followed by a short period of prayer and meditation. There is no entrance charge but a collection will be taken for [...]
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God’s universal love
Enniskillen at sunset, seen from across the Racecourse Lough
“For God is love, yea, all love, and so all love that nothing but love can come from him; and the Christian religion is nothing else but an open, full manifestation of his universal love towards all mankind.
As the light of the sun has only one common [...]
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Churches around the world will mark the 2010 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity between 18th and 25th January. This year the week is being hosted by Scotland to mark the centenary of the first world mission conference in Edinburgh, traditionally seen as the beginning of the modern ecumenical movement. The theme is taken from [...]
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Welcome!
Welcome to the new Fermanagh Churches Forum website. Over the next few weeks I hope to add more information about the forum, news about recent and forthcoming events and links to other websites of interest. If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please don’t hesitate to contact me at info@fermanaghchurchesforum.com Best wishes, Tanya
