Gloucester Churches Together

Special Sundays and other dates in 2008 with related links
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JANUARY
18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity www.ctbi.org.uk

20 Education Sunday www.educationsunday.org

27 Holocaust Memorial Day www.hmd.org.uk

27 World Leprosy Day www.leprosymission.org.uk

27 Homelessness Sunday www.homelessness-sunday.org.uk

27 Jan-3 Feb Poverty and Homelessness Action Week www.housingjustice.org.uk

FEBRUARY
3 Poverty Action Sunday www.church-poverty.org.uk

8 - 10 Weekend of Services for World Peace and Disarmament www.world-disarm.org.uk

???? National Marriage Week www.nmw.org.uk

25 FEBRUARY – 9 MARCH Fairtrade Fortnight www.fairtrade.org.uk

MARCH

2 Tearfund Sunday www.tearfund.org

7 (Women's) World Day of Prayer www.wwdp-natcomm.org

17 Corrymeela Sunday www.corrymeela.org

APRIL
??? Mental Health Action Week www.mentalhealth.org.uk

MAY

11-17 Christian Aid Week www.christian-aid.org.uk

18 Not For Sale Sunday (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe) www.chaste.org.uk

JUNE

8 Environment Sunday www.arocha.org

9 - 15 National Carers' Week www.carersweek.org

16 - 22 Refugee Week www.refugeeweek.org.uk

20 - 22 Nationwide Quiet Weekend www.retreats.org.uk

???? Green Transport Week www.eta.co.uk

 

JULY
13 Sea Sunday www.missiontoseafarers.org

13 NCH Sunday www.nch.org.uk

SEPTEMBER

14 Racial Justice Sunday www.ctbi.org.uk

21 International Day of Peace www.overcomingviolence.org

20 - 27 Age Concern Week www.ageconcern.co.uk

OCTOBER

5 Disability Sunday www.throughtheroof.org/sunday/disablitysunday.html

10 World Mental Health Day www.mentalhealth.org.uk www.mind.org.uk

19 - 26 Week of Prayer for World Peace nfpb.gn.apc.org/prayer

19 Healthcare Sunday www.healthcaresunday.org.uk

19 - 26 One World Week www.oneworldweek.org
24 United Nations Day www.un.org

26 Bible Sunday www.biblesociety.org.uk

NOVEMBER
9 Remembrance Sunday www.britishlegion.org.uk

16 International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians www.csw.org.uk

16 - 22 Prisons Week www.prisonsweek.org

16 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims www.roadpeace.org

23 Women Against Violence Sunday www.methodist.org.uk

DECEMBER
1 World Aids Day www.worldaidsday.org

10 Human Rights Day www.un.org

For Methodist Special Sundays and other useful information go to www.methodist.org.uk

For CAFOD Fast Days, go to www.cafod.org.uk

 

For details of other charity weeks, go to www.countmeincalendar.info