Another Busy Year for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

Another Busy Year for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, which works to advance the rights of migrant workers and their families at risk of exploitation, social exclusion and discrimination, had another busy year according to new figures for 2023. The non-governmental organisation has...
Twenty-first Century Mission

Twenty-first Century Mission

A Christian world and a world yet to be evangelised. That situation no longer exists. The people who have not yet heard the gospel no longer live in non-western countries. They are everywhere especially in huge urban areas. In large cities new paradigms are needed. We...
21st Century Mission

21st Century Mission

Immigrants are the energy band in today’s world. They energise economies at home by their remittances and away by their energy and ingenuity, writes Fr Bobby Gilmore.  “A Christian world and a world yet to be evangelised. That situation no longer exists. The people...
Miss Ellen’s Weekly Pilgrimage

Miss Ellen’s Weekly Pilgrimage

Fr Bobby Gilmore ministered in Jamaica from 1992-99. In 1999, he returned to Ireland and set up the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland. He writes about the significant contribution immigrant remittances make to two economies.     A crisis of papers unfixed, two three...
Clerical celibacy debate: When Fr Bobby wrote to Pope Francis

Clerical celibacy debate: When Fr Bobby wrote to Pope Francis

In light of the recent tension over Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s comments on clerical celibacy and as Pope Francis prepares to publish his response to the recommendation on ordaining married men made at the Synod on the Amazon, Fr Bobby Gilmore has given us a copy of...