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New Iona Community e-bulletin online now – edition 6/2010
Stories from a West Bank Village: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Friday, September 10, 2010 starting at 7pm. Jan Sutch Pickard, a storyteller and poet from Mull, spent three months in the small village of Yanoun at the beginning of this year …
Swingband concert in aid of the Growing Hope Appeal, October 29th, Cairns Church, Milngavie
Autumn 3-night break on Iona, Tuesday 19 to Friday 22 October 2010. Find out more here
Red Cross Pakistan Floods Appeal
Food Justice: the report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry. Member Elizabeth Dowler has been part of this year-long inquiry and is a contributor to its report – which has just been published.

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A VIGIL LITURGY FOR THE WORLDWIDE ABOLITION
OF THE DEATH PENALTY

This liturgy from Iona Abbey comes from the book 'Holy Ground: Liturgies and Worship Resources for an Engaged Spirituality', Helen Boothroyd and Neil Paynter, Wlld Goose Publications, 2005. The liturgy could be adapted for worship on Good Friday. For up-to-date facts, stories and campaigning information on the death penalty see:

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=78

Vigil Liturgy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty:

www.iona.org.uk/media/good_friday_liturgy.pdf (103 kb)