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 16
New C of I resource on supporting asylum seekers and refugees - Presbyterian Church reaffirms peacebuilding as key to witness by members - Cork Church Bells to ring out against racism - Easter trail activity for local churches from Bible Society - Three Mena ‘wide men’ raise £500 - Train for the ministry of divine healing - 100-dress display showcases generations of weddings at St Michael's Linlithgo - Pope: Conversion doesn’t happen through magic, but concrete actions - Six years of brutal war: World leaders must bring an end to suffering in Syria - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 16
People calling for a united Ireland like to think of themselves as being revolutionary, like a pasty Che Guevera, but the real transformation would be in breaking down the barriers that we construct between our children, Michael Hugh Walker writes in The Independent. Click here - CNI -Press March16.2
Eamonn Casey, the former bishop of Galway and Kerry who was at the centre of a major scandal in Ireland when it emerged in 1992 that he had fathered a child and used church funds to pay maintenance, has died at the age of 89 in a rest home in Newmarket-on-Fergus in Co Clare after a long illness, Sean Smith writes in The Tablet. Click here - CNI -Press March 16.1
Bernadette McAliskey on Sinn Fein, Scots independence, Brexit poll, NAMA, Irish helicopter disaster - Links to today’s news reports about faith, politics and education… from Ireland, GB and international. Click here - CNI -Media March 15
First ever Anglican Choral Evensong at St Peter's Basilica, Rome - Archbishop Eamon Martin pays tribute to Bishop Eamonn Casey - Presbyterian Church focus on cold calling and scams targeted at older people - Scottish Episcopal dioceses vote overwhelmingly to allow provision for equal marriage - Primus Chillingworth responds to request for second referendum on Scottish independence - Church of Scotland responds to second referendum request. Click here - CNI - News. March 15
Well, now. Whooping and cheering happened behind doors here and there but cavalcades did not fill the streets....Nationalists, it has been generally agreed, should shun triumphalism and be sensitive to unionists, struggling to adjust to losing their Stormont majority after almost a century. And yet up the road from Dublin, instead of the usual delicacy about unionist feelings, comes talk of planning for reunification. That’s Micheal Martin’s promised White Paper, swift on the heels of the Taoiseach across the wide Atlantic all but promising a vote for the presidency – to that trendy phenomenon the ‘diaspora’, and the Irish in the north, writes Fionnuala O’ Connor in The Irish News. Click here - CNI -Press Watch - March 15.2
Far be it from me to take pleasure in criticising our Church leaders who have a difficult job to do, but I think that they have misjudged the public mood in their statement on the Stormont talks, Alf McCreary writes in the Belfast Telegraph. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 15.1
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 14
Elvis in Eglinton a big hit with worshippers - Schools Singing Workshop at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork - Christ Church Cathedral marks 80th birthday of former Precentor - Bishop of Clogher’s roadshow on the Reformation - Rector spells it out to spray-paint hooligans - Maths at Mens' breakfast in Bull McCabe’s, Cork - Limerick trainee teachers awe-struck on visit Rome - Down & Dromore MU leader with Anglican women in New York for 61st annual UN Commission meeting. Click here - CNI -News March 14
A previously unseen archival document compiled on behalf of the Conservative Party Northern Ireland Committee, dated 3 July 1975, and located in the Julian Amery Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge, reveals that despite Martin McGuinness’s repeated assurances that he left the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) in 1974, senior members of the British Conservative Party and British Army believed that McGuinness was still a prominent ‘I.R.A. leader’ in Derry by the summer of 1975, to quote the aforementioned memorandum, writes Dr Stephen Kelly on Slugger O’Toole. Click here - CNI -Press Watch March 14
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Honour St Patrick by welcoming migrants and feeding the hungry, say Catholic bishops - New Editor sought for the C of I Gazette - ‘Everybody Welcome’ training launched in Down & Dromore - Abaana children’s choir wins hearts at The Hub - Bidding for success: Maintaining and repairing places of worship - Field Trip to visit Presbyterian Churches in Mid-Ulster - Record number at Down & Dromore confirmation weekend - Presentation of ‘Revolutionary’ Vatican’s Women’s Consultation Group - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 13
Philip North has stepped back from his appointed role as Bishop of Sheffield amid a furious row over women bishops, writes Harry Farley. Click here - CNI -PRESS WATCH MARCH 13
Links to 18 of today’s news reports from Ireland and GB about faith, politics and education…Click here - CNI -Media March 12
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Meet the Bishop Confirmation Morning in Cork - Enniskillen bells to ring in solidarity - Irish missionary to speak on conflict transformation methods in Queen's University public lecture - Newbridge Gael Scoil choir raise €3,000 for Jack and Jill - Pope Francis says the Church should reflect on married priests - Four religious Sisters killed in crash in Ethiopia - Mission agency seeks Anglicans with a passion for global mission - News briefs & Upcoming events. Click here - CNI -News March 11
Students seek support from captains over stress rater than faith guidance, Peter McGuire writes in The Irish Times. Click here - CNI -Faith focus March 11
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'The Home of St Patrick Festival', will take place over 17 days in the counties of Armagh and Down. it includes a programme of Irish music, theatre, art, comedy and religious-themed events in locations where Patrick walked and worked.
Connor Children’s Council’s ambitious five-day celebration of St Patrick taking place in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.Patrick’s Mysterious Adventure is a free family friendly event aimed at helping people of all ages to discover first-hand the adventurous life story of St Patrick though an exhibition and interactive story trail.
A special ecumenical celebration of Ireland’s patron saint in word, song and traditional Irish music will take place in St Patrick’s Cathedral on St Patrick’s Day (March 17) at 6.00 pm.
Last week the Northern Regional College confirmed it had reached an agreement with St Patrick’s Church of Ireland authorities to purchase the parish centre, a listed building and halls at 48 – 56 Brook Street, adjacent to the College’s Union Street campus.
The Pope's representative in Ireland is to leave to take up a new appointment in coming weeks.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to launch a new training session aimed at helping Christians to share their faith.
To coincide with International Women’s Day earlier this week, the Mothers Union issued a statement urging more involvement for women in peace negotiations:
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will meet Pope Francis in April, Clarence House has confirmed.
LGBT Catholics, parents and friends returned home on 5 March 2017 after an inspiring six days of pilgrimage to Rome. This 2nd LGBT Catholics Westminster Rome pilgrimage also received a warm message from Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.
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