Live blog from Dublin by VOX magazine’s editor Ruth Garvey-Williams, Friday 10 May: Delegates from 20 countries across Europe have gathered at Croke Park Conference centre in Dublin today for the annual ‘State of Europe Forum’. Inspired by Robert Schuman’s…
Most Europeans have no clue, and couldn’t care less, that this Thursday, May 9, is so-called ‘Europe day’. And certainly under current circumstances, there’s not much to celebrate, Right? May I suggest, however, that there is an intrinsic relationship between…
George Frideric Handel was only 28 years old when he was commissioned by the British royal family to compose a special sacred work to be performed in St Paul’s Cathedral in thanksgiving for the end of the first world war…
While Margaret Thatcher’s state funeral last Wednesday was the occasion for VIP’s and angry protestors to praise or blame her for the shape of modern Britain, the President of Ireland was delivering a passionate speech in the European Parliament which…
How much the European landscape has changed since the founding of YWAM in the Netherlands forty years ago in 1973! Secularism, Islam(ism) and new spirituality seem to have pushed Christianity to the margins in the continent once synonymous with Christendom.…
