http://www.cafod.org.uk/uk/hexham-newcastle Read more http://www.cafod.org.uk/var/storage/images/images/uk-diocesan/hexham-and-newcastle-diocese/holy-island-2008/767768-1-eng-GB/holy-island-2008_small.jpg http://www.cafod.org.uk/uk/hexham-newcastle http://www.cafod.org.uk/uk/hexham-newcastle/panels/read-more/hexham-newcastle-blogs-feed http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/dermots-got-the-xmas-factor/ Dermot O’Leary is flying the flag for gifts with a twist this Christmas by backing the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development’s (CAFOD) ethical presents, World Gifts. The 2011 range features over 30 inspiring and unusual gifts that will raise a smile on Christmas day and make a lasting difference to someone living in poverty overseas. [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4988 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/cafod-hits-the-high-notes-with-a-musical-fundraiser-in-durham/ Irish soprano, Virginia Kerr, is to perform in Durham to raise funds for Catholic aid agency CAFOD. And more than 150 tickets have already been sold! The world famous singer – a personal friend of St Godric’s parish priest Fr Colm Hayden – has offered her services free of charge to raise money for CAFOD’s [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4979 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/new-lord-mayor-of-newcastle-chooses-cafod/ CAFOD is one of three organisations to be nominated as official charities for 2011-2012 by the new Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, Councillor Geoff O’Brien. And to launch their involvement with the Lord Mayor, CAFOD is holding a charity dinner at the Mansion House, Jesmond, on September 19, at 6.30pm, with the Lord Mayor [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4967 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/big-walkers-put-their-best-feet-forward-for-cafod/ Twelve intrepid walkers are setting out on a 135-mile trek to commemorate two CAFOD anniversaries. The group will walk from Durham to Holy Island over nine days in July to commemorate the 50th anniversary of CAFOD’s foundation and the 25th anniversary of the first CAFOD office in the North East. And the group includes two [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4955 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/new-cafod-hexham-newcastle-office/ CAFOD Hexham & Newcastle has moved to a new office. We are now based at: St. Bede’s Presbytery, Carr House Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham. DH1 5LZ And our new telephone number is: 0191 384 4847 Here is a map showing our new location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=427094&y=544961&z=0&sv=DH1+5LZ&st=2&pc=DH1+5LZ&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf   http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4939 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/how-to-cook-palm-butter-in-grebo-hainu/ Palm butter is a meal enjoyed by all Liberians, but particularly the Grebo people, from the coastal South East of the country. It is usually cooked on a Sunday, because it’s expensive as there are lots of ingredients. Invite your friends!  Ingredients: (All words like this - ’Hainu‘ - are in the Grebo language.) Sifting the palmnut [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4887 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/before-i-came-to-liberia-i-never-thought-i-would%e2%80%a6/ 1.      Be invited to a wedding there (or anywhere!). 2.     Witness the world’s longest (and slowest) bridal procession. 3.      Be on the beach on the first day 4.    Dance in the streets of Gbarnga 5.      Be forcibly ‘saved from drowning’ at Kpatawee waterfall 6.      Be gowned 7.      Be taken for crazy Scotsmen 8.      Eat a [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4831 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/when-two-elephants-fight-it%e2%80%99s-the-grass-that-gets-trampled/ It’s easy to generalise about politics in Africa from a European perspective. So we’re not going to do that here. Instead, we’d like to take the hard way and present some impressions of the situation in Liberia and its neighbour Ivory Coast as we’ve witnessed them this month. The last day of our stay with [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4826 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/reunited/   Savio Village is a rehabilitation and transit centre of Don Bosco Homes and temporary residence of up to 30 boys aged 5 to 18. Our second visit to Savio began with a walking tour of the local community and adjoining farmland, eagerly led by the 16 boys we’d met the day before. For three [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4818 http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/peace-a-process-not-an-event/ Ganta is an hour from Gbarnga – roads are measured by time not distance. You head north from Bong County to Nimba County, passing the taboo catfish (see last year) and you find Ganta on the Guinea border. As well as Guinea, the crossroads points you further north to the mines and the mountains (cold, [...] http://cafodhexhamnewcastle.wordpress.com/?p=4815