Transcript of article by Bishop Trevor Williams, 'Living positively with difference is another global challenge for us', which appeared in The Irish News, Thursday 26 March 2009.
The All-Ireland Churches Consultative Meeting on Racism's (AICCMR) new Directory of Migrant-Led Churches and Chaplaincies (which received partnership support from the Church of Ireland's Hard Gospel Project) was launched in Belfast on Friday 5th December 2008, by Fr Irenaeus du Plessis at Edgehill College, and in Tallaght, Dublin on Sunday 7th December by Minister for Integration, Conor Lenihan TD. Images from the launches provided.
A new Directory listing 361 migrant-led churches and chaplaincies now existing across Ireland is to be launched on Friday 5th December in Belfast by Fr Irenaeus du Plessis of Belfast’s Antiochian Orthodox Church and in Dublin by the Minister for Integration, Mr Conor Lenihan TD on Sunday 7th December. Compiled by the All-Ireland Churches Consultative Meeting on Racism (AICCMR), the directory gives the first real snapshot of the diversity of Christian practice in Ireland today, as well as a practical source of information.