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AUSTRALIA
Fiona Sharwood of Brisbane, daughter of an interchurch family, studied at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin for three months before Christmas 1998; she received grants from bothg her Catholic and Anglican bishops.
We have received news of a small group of interchurch families in Melbourne, co-ordinated by Margy Dahl, a minister in the Uniting Church in Australia and her husband Jeff Wild, executive secretary of the Commission for Ecumenism of the Catholic Archdiocese.
The group in Newcastle and Hunter is small but enthusiastic. Bev Hincks has been very active in reporting back from the Harare Assembly.
GERMANY
The Neresheim seminar celebrated its 30 years at the Benedictine Abbey 23-25 April. Pater Beda Müller has been with them from the beginning. Fr René Beaupère from Lyon addressed the conference (in French) and Claire Malone-Lee reported from AIF-England (in German!).
IRELAND
The Irish Inter-Church Meeting has published a booklet: Ministering to Interchurch Couples: help for clergy, 32 pp., 1999. £2 from the Inter-Church Centre, 48 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast BT9 6AZ.
AIF-Ireland held its annual Family Day in September 1998 on "intercommunion".
The Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association held its annual conference at Corrymeela 16-18 April 1999. Fr Michael Bingham addressed them – long ago Fr John Coventry had been his headmaster!
SCOTLAND
The Unity, Faith and Order Committee of Action for Churches Together in Scotland is working on a document on "Discipline and Pastoral Care" for interchurch families.
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