If you’re looking for an immersive experience for Easter I urge you to read this. Conversely if you want it to be a peaceful, consoling one, don’t, Anna Wheeler writes. Click here - CNI -Pre Easter 1
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Theresa May criticises National Trust over ‘ridiculous’ decision to drop ‘Easter’ from egg hunt - Clogher diocese focus on response to autism - Religious order rejects calls to share redress costs with state - The Biggest Indoor Easter Egg Hunt in Belfast - Derry’s Good Friday Walk of the Cross - Bishop of Truro to be new Bishop at Lambeth - The Big April Ask: Pope wants to know views of young people - St John Passion to be performed in Welsh for the first time - News briefs & Upcoming events - Today in History. Click here - CNI -News April 5
Being part of new, reimagined and outward-looking Ireland will prove ever more attractive in time ahead, Matt Carthy, Sinn Fein MEP, writes in The Irish Times. Click here - CNI -Press Watch Ap 5
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New chapter for re-named Armagh Robinson Library - Irish churchmen lead delegation to visit Italian refugee projects - Bishop of Cork’s service to education recognised - Catholic Church in England concerned about Irish in UK post Brexit - UK churches provide discussion resources on Brexit - C of E slams BBC for cutting in-house religious programming team - Book spot: The Challenge of the Lord’s Prayer - Today in History. Click here - CNI -News April4
Last Sunday, a man stopped me in the People's Park, Dun Laoghaire, and said, "If it wasn't for the Sunday Independent, they'd have it all their own way”, writes Eoghan Harris in the Sunday Independent. Click here - CNI -Press Watch Ap 4
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A View of the Cross: Armagh Concert for Palm Sunday - Catholic doctrines ‘no longer make sense’, says Fr Tony Flannery - C of E says progress being made in handling abuse cases - #Hashtag Holy Week Programme of Bishop of Cork - News briefs & Upcoming events - Today in HistoryToday and Tomorrow in History. Click here - CNI - News April 3
Faced with a choice between Jesus and Elvis, I chose Elvis, and hardly gave it another thought, John Waters writes in The Catholic Herald. Click here - CNI -Press W April3
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Methodist minister, son of a murdered policeman, wrote to Martin McGuinness - Churches place in post-Catholic Ireland challenged - Community club started at Acorn Centre in Derry - Mothers’ Union in Down & Dromore celebrates 13 decades - Philomena Lee to speak at Limerick literary festival - Online archive of C of I Gazette expands featuring April 1917 - Irish mission agency responds to South Sudan crisis - Today and Tomorrow in History. Click here - CNI -News April 1
There were many moments during last week’s superbly organised and sensitively handled funeral of Martin McGuinness RIP that will live in the memory, Martin O’Brien writes in the Irish News. Click here - CNI -Press Watch April 1
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The Kirk collaborates with Corrymeela to create peacemaking resource - Pope’s letter for Dublin World Meeting of Families presented - Irish missionary agency responds to South Sudan crisis - Cardinal Nichols to take four imams to meet the Pope - Put people first post-Brexit, urge Welsh Bishops - C of E archbishops to attend Spring Harvest - Second complaint over 'abusive and derogatory' comments against gay cleric as pressure builds on Church in Wales. Click here - CNI -News March 31
The 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome coincided with the UK invoking Article 50 of that same Treaty to exit Europe, Ray Kinsella writes in the Irish Independent. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 31
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New outreach centre opens in Donegal - Politicians need to show a little grace, C of I spokesman - National Collection this weekend for World Meeting of Families 2018 - Dean of Derry installed - Clogher’s CMS mission partners to speak about project in Kenya - South Sudan bishop appeals to Connor diocese - Pope Francis demands urgent action to protect civilians in Mosul - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 30
NI budget crisis, Garda enquiries, GB starts Brexit …Links to today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland and GB and international. Click here - CNI -Media review
Marie Collins thanks members of Vatican commission on abuse for support - Church in Wales investigates official complaints into homophobia against gay cleric - Pope’s activities in Holy Week and Easter 2017 - 12 News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 29
The Republic looks to have two choices: get special status within the EU or leave the same day as the UK, writes Brian Monteith in The Scotsman. Click here - CNI -PRESS WATCH MAR 29
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Tiny Rathlin Island church is rededicated following renovations - St Patrick’s Choristers raise the roof for Diocesan Housing Appeal - Archbishop Eamon Martin says the Catholic Church does not want an Irish theocracy - Meath & Kildare team to visit and learn from Leprosy Mission in India - C of I bishop speaks at The Gran’s Novena of Hope - Funding boost for Mount Merrion Parish Church, Belfast - Earth Hour: The world goes dark - Cork commissioning of lay assistants at the Eucharist. Click here - CNI -News March 28
The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Richard Clarke, and Dr Eamon Martin, his Catholic counterpart. make an unlikely stage act, and are unlikely to trouble the organisers of Glastonbury or the Proms, William Scholes writes in The Irish News. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 28
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Baby Basics Belfast: mission’s new initiative to support new mothers - The Priests album Alleliua to be re-released in time for Easter - Jesus, Florence Nightingale and Thomas Aquinas feature in new titles by SPCK - 7 pages of News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 27
Simon Heffer writing in The Sunday Telegraph - I wouldn’t dream of crediting the murderer Adrian Ajao, also known as Khalid Masood, with a sense of irony, but his choice of last week for his horrific attack on the public, police and Parliament suggested he might have had one .Click here - CNI -Press March 27
With statesmen like Bill Clinton looking on, ancient supplications for the dead were offered on March 23rd over the coffin of Martin McGuinness, the Northern Irish paramilitary turned politician. In the annals of a city with a rich and chequered religious history, this was a most unusual Catholic funeral, The Economist comments. Click here - CNI -PRESS Marchn26.1
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