Ellen Teague

1 week ago | thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague

More than 2,000 pilgrims with Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust are to arrive in Lourdes over the Easter weekend for the largest annual children’s pilgrimage to visit the shrine in Southern France annually. More than 1300 people are going from England, Wales and Scotland, including 282 children and young people with disabilities and other needs, accompanied by 1018 volunteers including 45 clergy and 44 nurses.

1 week ago | thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald

The singer Adeniké Adewale is running the London Marathon on 27 April to raise funds for Cafod. Adewale, who is playing the role of Whitney Houston in the show Queen of the Night, said: “It is going to be an intense weekend … running the marathon will be the toughest physical challenge of my life.”She added: “My favourite place to run is in nature, in the early morning.

2 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Patrick Hudson |Ellen Teague |Michael Sean Winters

The French Church’s fund to compensate sexual abuse of minors has recognised 1,235 cases since its founding in 2022 and paid 765 of them so far with sums of up to €60,000 euros, its president said in a report. The Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation (INIRR) began hearing individual claims after the Ciase study in late 2021 estimated 330,000 cases of abuse in the Church – two-thirds by clergy – since 1950.

3 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague

Church-goers are being exhorted to complain to their MPs as welfare cuts leave food bank users ‘terrified’ Church groups have attacked welfare cuts announced by the UK government in last week’s Spring Statement. On 28 March, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves declared there would be further reductions to welfare spending and an increase in the defence budget.

3 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Patrick Hudson |Ellen Teague

A bishop warned that Nigeria’s neighbours could not handle the number of refugees should war break out in the country. The Bishop of Makurdi Wilfred Anagbe was speaking 12 March at a Congressional hearing at the US Senate on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, and the need to designate the African nation as a Country of Particular Concern. Anagbe said Christians in Nigeria have for decades been under assault from terrorist groups who have perpetrated massacres of Christian communities.