Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sep 6, 2025 / 07:00 am

A spokesman for the Diocese of Down and Connor, Father Eddie McGee, has strongly condemned intimidation and attacks on Catholic families in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that have led all families but one to flee their homes.

The families were living in a housing development bordering a predominantly loyalist district in the north of the city.

“The continued attacks and intimidation experienced by local residents of Annalee and Alloa Street in Belfast are cowardly and threatening faceless acts of sectarian discrimination,” McGee told CNA. “It is abhorrent that families in Northern Ireland today continue to have to leave the security of their homes in a society that is strongly committed to the pathway of peace and reconciliation.”

The sect

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