Click below to read all about our most recently awarded Champion Schools of Sanctuary and also about our first ever Champion Award Ceremony. There are lots of links to schools’ sanctuary portfolios as well- great inspiration and learning for Member schools thinking of receiving their monitoring visits in winter 2023!
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On May 18th, Loreto Secondary School in Wexford town became Wexford’s 5th Champion School of Sanctuary. Two Students/Sanctuary Ambassadors of Loreto Wexford standing by the School of Sanctuary Board The monitoring visit was the first visit by Ezana, a refugee from Ethiopia living in Rosslare direct provision centre, to a School of Sanctuary, joining five
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‘Hate can unite bad forces – it is important to be anti-hate.’ This was one of the many messages to emerge during the discussion at an interfaith gathering in the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin on Saturday morning (May 20). Against the backdrop of a series of anti-migrant incidents which have hit
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Booking is now open for ‘Dialogue of Friendship: Living Together in Diverse Communities’, a day conference being organised by the Sanctuary in Faith Stream, in partnership with the Church of Ireland Interfaith Working Group. Date: Saturday, 20 May, 10.30 AM – 3.00 PM Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin This conference and networking event
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We are delighted to extend this invitation to attend the celebration of the Library of Sanctuary Award for Louth Library Service on 7th March at 12:30 pm. Please RSVP to linda.larrigan@louthcoco.ie by 4pm Tuesday, February 28th.
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The devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey has hit some of the most vulnerable communities on the planet. People uprooted by the cruel civil war and repeated bombings were sheltered inadequately in flimsy buildings and many thousands have now lost their lives, with countless others needing urgent care and sanctuary. In Ireland, empathy and action
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The staff and board of Places of Sanctuary Ireland, in consultation with experts in the field, has awarded Louth Library Service with national recognition as a Library of Sanctuary. The 5 library branches in County Louth are clearly making a wonderful contribution to building a community of welcome and sanctuary across County Louth, and we
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Places of Sanctuary Ireland will be recognising four new Churches of Sanctuary in the coming weeks. In a wonderful showing of ecumenical solidarity, four churches of different denominations spread right across the island are being recognised as Churches of Sanctuary during the four-week period of Advent, the season of preparation within the church year leading
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PRESS RELEASE Schools of Sanctuary Ireland 500 teachers come together to learn about how to welcome Ukrainian refugee children into their schools 500 teachers from all over the country came together yesterday (23rd March) for a webinar on how to welcome refugee children – and particularly refugee children from Ukraine – into Irish schools.
