Quick scan today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland, GB and international with links to full reports. Click here - CNI -Media March 25
Churches should turn off lights for Earth Hour today - Welsh Bishop forced to quit after backing gay cleric Jeffrey John in Church homophobia row - Bishop of Sheffield: Joint statement by Archbishops of Canterbury and York - Lots of tears at Westminster inter-church prayer services after terror attack - Giving Syrians full refugee status Is the right thing to do, Says Christian Aid - Pope Francis wants Romero sites to be places of pilgrimage - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 25
Speaking in Washington last week on the subject of Brexit and a united Ireland, Gerry Adams said: "History has presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to advance this entirely legitimate and logical objective. Let's not waste it”, Newton Emerson writes in The Irish News. Click here - CNI -PRESS WATCH 2 MARCH 24
Michael Deacon in the Daily Telegraph’s parliamentary sketch describes Westminster’s tribute on Thursday following the terror attack. Click here - CNI -Press WatchMarch 24
McGuinness funeral, Westminster reaction to terrorist attack, GB and World news reports. Click here - CNI -Media March 24
London attack: Archbishop of Canterbury responds in House of Lords - Dublin prayers for Westminster - Pope Francis says he is 'deeply saddened' by Westminster attack - Interfaith response from Scotland - Theologian and philosopher Marilyn McCord Adams dies - C of I Bishops’ Appeal crisis appeal for East Africa - International recognition of pastoral care education in Cork - Bishop of Llandaff appointment: statement - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 24
In many ways, the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion are on closer terms than they have ever been in their history. Despite this relationship, the situation for Anglo-Catholics in the Church of England itself is getting worse: An Anglo-Catholic bishop withdrew his nomination as the Anglican Bishop of Sheffield due to protests over his opposition to the ordination of women, Fr. Dwight Longenecker writes in Crux. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 24
McGuiness funeral, Westminster terror attack and links to Irish, GB and Global headline reports. Click here - CNI -Media review March 23
Archbishop of Canterbury to make high-level, 12 day trip to the Holy Land - Welsh MPs blast Church over 'homophobic' treatment of gay cleric Jeffrey John - C of E bishop appoints liaison officer for LGBT community - Pope Francis begs forgiveness for ‘sins and failings’ of Church during Rwandan genocide - Church Banner Workshop a success for Cork children’s ministry group - Limerick Pipe Organ Festival - Parishes in Cork and Dromore dioceses connect on local community needs - Prize for Kinsale school - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 23
We should be grateful when republicans reveal their true face, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Belfast Telegraph. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 23
A new book about Protestants south of the Border dwells too much on the negative and exaggerates their isolation, writes Kim Bielenberg in The Irish Independent. Click here - CNI -Book brief March 23
Irish news still dominated by death of Martin McGuinness, in GB a second cathedral chapter supports Dean Jeffrey Johns, and internationally the Pope has a word of advice for young people. Click here - Media review - March 22
CAI’s new logo reflects aims and aspirations - Relic of patron saint of Luxembourg to be housed in Carlow Cathedral - Swapping stories round a campfire at the DRY Weekend - Down & Dromore woman on Mothers’ Union team at United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women - High Hopes Choir to perform at European Parliament - C of I Parishioner chosen as Grand Marshall of Fermoy’s St Patrick’s Day Parade - Christ Church, Bessbrook celebrates 150 years - Statement by the Chapter of St Albans Cathedral - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 22
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin; The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland,The Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Rt. Rev. Dr. Frank Sellar; The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson; The Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown; The Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, Rt Rev Ken Good; and Peter Lynas, Northern Ireland director of the Evangelical Alliance. Click here - CNI -MMcG Leaders March 22
The passing of Martin McGuinness represents difficult territory for the Catholic Church in Ireland, Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith writes in The Catholic Herald. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 22
Death of Martin McGuinness dominates Irish media; Cross Party criticism of BBC bias on Brexit; Links to today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland, GB and international. Click here - CNI -Media March 21
Cistercian College Roscrea to remain open after €1.5 million rescue plan - ‘Can’t Cook Won’t Cook’ clergy of Middletown churches fund 3 defibrillators - Stew and shamrock in Garvagh inter-church blessing - Former president says it’s ‘no time for silence’ on migrant rights - Presbyterian history society lecture on Secession Church - First ever Dublin and Glendalough schools choir competition to mark 800 anniversary - Patrick’s Mysterious Adventure draws crowds Belfast -
Churches claiming from RHI scheme - Former Queen's Chaplain quits 'liberal' C of E - Jeffrey John calls out hypocrisy amongst bishops. Click here - CNI -News March 21
The recent Assembly election results have caused an overdone wave of pessimism among unionists, Graham Gudgin writes in the News Letter. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 21
Rob Fairborn a Presbyterian pastor/evangelist writes on farming, rural life and mission in Ireland. Click here - CNI -FAITH FOCUS March 21
Quick scan today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland, and GB with links to full reports. Click here - CNI -Media March 20
Rising to the challenge focus of St Patrick’s Day at Down Cathedral - Dublin’s Cathedrals’ Choirs sing in harmony at St Patrick’s Eve Celebration - Blessing of the Shamrock celebration in DIT Grangegorman - Annual St Patrick’s Day Civic Service in St Fin Barre’s, Cork - ‘Very serious’ decline in number becoming priests in Ireland - Egypt says Pope Francis will visit in April = News briefs & Upcoming events. CLICK HERE - CNI -NEWS MARCH 20
And now it’s the turn of the Bon Secours sisters to endure an hour of national hate. Good luck, girls — and just pray the mob soon moves on elsewhere. Your deeds will probably soon slip down the register of unbearable infamy, while the national psyche seeks new targets for our traditional sport: hunting-pack hysteria, Kevin Myers in the Sunday Times. Click here - CNI -PRESS WATCH 3.20
By the time you read this I will hopefully be celebrating St Patrick's weekend in bright sunshine some 2,000 miles from home, but my thoughts will still be on our patron saint, writes Alf McCreary in the Belfast Telegraph. Click here - CNI -FAITH FOCUS 20.3
Links to today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland and GB. Click here - CNI -Media March 19
Quick scan today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland, GB and international with links to full reports. Click here - CNI -Media March 18
Interactive snakes, boats and boots at Belfast Cathedral’s St Patrick’s event - Cistercian College Roscrea saved from closure by €1.5 million in pledges - Former Irish president’s concerns about Brexit and Europe’s refugee crisis - C of I’s Bishop Colton raises Mother and Baby Homes at Cork St Patricks’ Day Civic Service - Irish language group’s visit to Bandon C of I Parish - Angelina Jolie teams up with Archbishop of Canterbury on sexual violence and Sudan refugee crisis - Scottish Episcopal Institute launches new Journal - New Director for the Anglican Centre, Rome - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 18
The Ireland celebrated by G.K. Chesterton in his Christendom in Dublin is no more, writes Professor John P McCarthy in The Catholic World Report. Click here - CNI -Press March 18.2
Irish at White House, Trump for Portrush for Open, Trinity students cold on unity, Brexit - Irish, GB and global news links. Click here - CNI -Media March 17
In 2014 Lizzie Lowe took her own life on wasteland near the Mersey river in Manchester. She was 14 years of age. Nobody in her family or the church they attended knew that Lizzie was gay, writes Gordon Linney in The Irish Times. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 17.2
Deal or no EU deal, Britain has little to fear, Matt Ridley writes in The Times. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 16