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A wall that promises peace but still divides. Laughter that breaks open a room heavy with history. We take you from autumn’s calm to Belfast’s living memory, where murals speak, neighbours disagree, and a healing hub welcomes anyone willing to make the journey.

Across the hour, we unpack the Good Friday Agreement in plain language and trace how power sharing, rights, and decommissioning reframed conflict without erasing pain. We name the people who shaped the path—Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Ian Paisley, John Hume, David Trimble—and spotlight the faith leaders who paid a cost to keep conversation alive. Father Alec Reid, Archbishop Robin Eames, and Father Gerry Reynolds offer a language of peace that demands more than silence: justice, understanding, and the courage to see Christ in the other.

We bring it home with practice. Reconciliation starts in the heart before it reaches the street. Prayer, confession, liturgy, hospitality—these are not extras; they are the disciplines that steady us when rhetoric runs hot. A story of estranged brothers embracing at a funeral shows what can happen when truth and tenderness meet. From there, a simple pattern emerges: a centred self builds a kinder home, a kinder home shapes a generous community, a generous community becomes a credible church, and a credible church can help mend a divided world. Micah 6:8 holds the thread—act justly, love mercy, walk humbly.

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