Faith Matters
RECENTLY, the Harlow Islamic Centre held a Mosque Open Day. Based on Paringdon Road, the Islamic Centre provides a host of services to the local muslim community and also provides a platform for dialogue with the wider community. Harlow MP, Chris Vince as well as…
THE capital’s oldest mosque, the Fazl Mosque in Southfields, London, welcomed hundreds of guests on Saturday evening to mark a century since its foundation stone was first laid. Guests including MPs, academics and religious leaders came together to view a special exhibition and hear a…
HARLOW’S Catholic community has been urged to write to their MP over the question of assisted dying. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops’ Conference and Archbishop of Westminster, has issued a pastoral letter on assisted suicide that was read in the churches of his…
MOSQUE Open Day at Harlow Islamic Centre. Full details below.
ST Clare Hospice has welcomed Reverend Becky Leach as the charity’s new Chaplain. Revd Becky joins the Hastingwood-based Hospice from St Stephen’s Church in St Albans, where she served as the vicar for eight years. In her new role as St Clare’s chaplain, Revd Becky…
ST Stephen’s Church, Tawneys Road, near Bush Fair, is opening its doors this Sunday 4th August and extending a warm welcome to the whole community to enjoy a Holiday at Home! Revd Darren McIndoe told Your Harlow “Our schools have broken up for the summer…
NEW research shows that 43% of parents are worried the summer holidays will put them into financial difficulty warns The Salvation Army. In the East of England, 38% of parents expressed this concern. 13% of parents reported being very worried they would not be able…
THE Bishop of Chelmsford has announced that the next Dean of Chelmsford will be the RevCanon Dr Jessica Martin. Jessica currently serves as a Residentiary Canon at Ely Cathedral and during 2024 has served asone of two theological advisers to the bishops of the Church…
SOME of Holy Cross Primary Academy’s year 5 and 6 children attended a St Vincent de Paul mass celebration at St George’s Cathedral in Southwark, bringing together 500 plus children from 48 schools across the dioceses of Arundel and Brighton, Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster. The…
OVER twenty prominent Christian leaders have signed an open letter to the leaders of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties urging them to ‘seek the welfare of the nation’ through fairer taxation. The letter states that ‘the tax system as it currently stands is unfair’ often enabling…
A FATHER who took Waltham Forest Council to court for not taking into account his desire to send his children to faith school when offering temporary housing has lost his case reports the Local Democracy Reporter. Rabah Ghaoui and his family, including his two children,…
LATER this month, Reverend Christian Okeke will be hosting a series of “grieving sessions” at the Harlow Hotel on Southern Way in Harlow. There are full details on the poster but we wanted to find out a little bit more. Many will know Rev. Okeke…
A HARLOW Reverend is looking for a kind person to sponsor a van she uses to transport furniture across the town. Rev Jokey Poyntz is the vicar at St Mary’s Church, Little Parndon. She also runs the Harlow Holidays Lunch Club (HHLC). The Harlow Foodbank…
EASTER Services at Catholic Churches across Harlow. Holy Cross Church on Tracyes Road Our Lady of Fatima on First Avenue The Assumption of Our Lady in Old Harlow
GOOD Friday Walk with the Cross in town centre. Full details below.
ONCE again, the message of Easter hope and resurrection life breaks into a world that is full of sorrow, conflict and pain. How can we possibly make sense of this central event – the one that everything else in the Christian faith hangs on -…
