Church leaders comment on the death of Dr Ian Paisley; Lord Bannside - Press review; Pope Francis to address European Parliament in November; Archbishop of Dublin to address Porvoo Church Leaders Consultation on unity; Cork quiet day for pastoral carers - Compassion: Seeing with the Heart; Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral - Look, Learn and Create - school art programme; Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas launches social media awareness campaign: ‘Good to Know Before You Go’; Bishop of Meath leads his 31st annual pilgrimage to Lourdes; Bishop prays from top of Cathedral tower; Call for prayer as severe flooding hits Northern Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Sunday School built over graves causes unholy row in Galway village; Church Music Dublin Launches Latest Video ; United Society Celebrates 300 Years in Ireland with Service at St Patrick’s Cathedral ; Connor synod keynote speaker from London Institute for Contemporary Christianity ; Institution in All Saints’ Parish, Belfast ; Child migration 'a grave injustice’- Sisters of Nazareth ; September/October Lunchtime concerts in St Mary’s Limerick ; Pope appoints two US priests to help tackle sexual abuse of minors ; Press review
C of I, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches welcome new Education legislation in NI; No single board agreement’ claims UUP; Dublin inter-church Young Adults in Leadership Course; Inquiry into shared and integrated education across Northern Ireland; Presbyterian missionaries feature in BBC Songs of Praise Harvest Special; Kill O’ The Grange Looks Back at 150 Years of Witness With History Exhibition; Presbyterian Women’s Conference 2014 ‘How beautiful are the feet’; Anti-abortion clinic said to be opening in Belfast; Council moves to secure purchase of Holy Island; Archbishop of Canterbury visits Anglicans in Brazil and Chile; Scotland 'in danger of becoming a divided country’- Church shifts its focus to reconciliation; Press review
Pope mourns three missionary sisters murdered in Burundi; Charting A Future With Confidence in Cork, Cloyne and Ross; St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast To Introduce Daily Choral Service; Methodists’ Mission Ireland Day; Jordanstown's Holiday Bible Club; Single education board for Northern Ireland - after waste of £16 million process ; Cardinal Nichols welcomes Royal baby news; Church of England recruits journalist of "Insight, Experience and Commitment" as part of new team; Press Review
Cardinal Brady’s resignation accepted by Pope; Anglican Communion Secretary General elected bishop in Ireland: East Belfast Mission director Houston dismissed; New rector at Movilla Abbey; Churches Together Conference for those involved in leading worship; God forgives me for raping woman and shooting her disabled son, says UDA killer Hinton; Press review
Former President McAleese says Catholic Church’s ‘old boys club’ has to go; Kilbroney Residential and Conference Centre unveils major refurbishment; Priests turned down over €3.9m for coveted Jackie Kennedy letters; Sacrifice of the Merchant Navy marked at Belfast service; Living With Suicide - Day Retreat on Lough Derg; RSCM Ireland’s island wide autumn programme of choral workshops; Anglican-supported Gaza hospital faces a future treating severe injuries, trauma
London Community Gospel Choir In Concert In Lisburn Cathedral; Bishop Crean calls for prayers for the O’Driscoll family following tragic death of three sons; C of I Ordinations; History week at Kill o’ the Grange Parish; Cork chaplain will address International still birth conference; Irish classes in C of I Belfast Parish; Another novel by Rev Paddy Semple; Archbishop of Dublin to address European dialogue; Sandford lunchtime concert
Belfast Cathedral Singers set for first rehearsal; Christian Aid calls for end to identity-based violence in Iraq and UK; Pope hosts global video chat with young people; Press review
Choir perform in VW Camper Van; Methodist Churches feature in new Explore West Limerick visitor guide; Gatecrashing – Castlewellan Holiday Week hosts Irish launch; Protestant Traybakes v Catholic Scones: Ulster's sectarian patisserie; What changes if Scotland votes 'No’?; A gap year of Prayer at Lambeth?; Shimon Peres: Pope Francis is a more powerful peace advocate than UN; Cardinal to Lead St. Pat Parade With 1st Gay Group ; Press review
This evil must stop: Archbishop of Canterbury on Iraq; It is time to say with one voice: this anti-Semitism is not acceptable; Scottish independence: Moderator calls for respect on both sides; Richard Dawkins to speak in Belfast; Lynda Bryans on healing from depression; Making History Talk in Enniskillen – Understanding World War 1; The State prayers controversy in the C of I; Press review
Protestant leaders hit back at Sean O'Dowd 'attack’; Tiny Catholic primary has won backing of its area to become mixed... yet still O'Dowd looks set to close it; Church of Ireland school in Mayo goes multidenominational; Call for Irish State schools to accommodate Islamic beliefs; N Ireland children sent to Australia were sexually abused, inquiry told; Child migrant ‘abused in Catholic homes in Londonderry and Australia’; Parish youth Mizen to Malin cycle for East Belfast inner city projects; Willie John McBride kicks off Belfast Cathedral talks series; Armagh organ recital to be given by talented Dublin student; National day of prayer for Scottish referendum ; Press review
Northern Ireland children sent to Australia like little baby convicts, abuse inquiry told; Migration scheme was viewed as money well spent, inquiry told; Pastor McConnell announces immediate retirement; More than 100 young people from Connor ready to ‘Take the Castle!’; New C of I secondary school opens in Greystones; Date of Limerick C of I bishop’s election announced; “By the Book: Literature for Living” series at Trinity College Dublin Chapel; Big Tent Conversations at Skainos in East Belfast on the big community issues this Autumn; Parishioner all set to step out on 190 mile Coast to Coast fund raising trek across England; Press review
European churches meet for dialogue in Kilkenny; Dublin churches take to the sea to pray for climate justice; Columbian pastor to speak at Belfast series of healing services; East Belfast Mission’s Jobs Fair has new focus; Presbyterian Church in the Public Square - focus on freedom, faith and equality; Service of Ordination in Shankill Parish Lurgan yesterday; St Molua’s Stormont: a landmark building in local community is reborn; Archbishop issues terror asylum plea; Britain's Muslim and Jewish leaders urge followers to export peace to Gaza
Liverpool Football Club Foundation supports inter-church outreach programme in Cookstown; Prayers for Peace on eve of NATO Summit; Scotland’s archbishops urge Catholics to vote in referendum; Belfast’s Dock church minister to serve as a chaplain to Lord Mayor; C of I ordinations in Derry and Down; Services and Heritage Week events; ‘British politics needs an injection of love and kindness’ by Tom Watson; IS in Iraq: Yazidi women raped, murdered and sold as brides; Press review - including An interview with East End Nun Christine Frost who reportedly removed an Isis flag on public display in Tower Hamlets
Northern Ireland Catholics are now more unionist than the English. Can the United Kingdom last?; Methodist President on 20th anniversary of IRA Ceasefire; Creation Time - Churches worldwide to give thanks for farmers and food producers; Dementia - a New Way of Caring - Belfast City Mission; Catholic paper refuses ad for McAleese event; C of I Diocesan Readers retreat focus on vocation; Archbishop Eamon Martin promotes Rosary Sunday prayer initiative; Death of Canon Clive West; Coventry Cathedral helps broker football club peace talks; Press Review - don’t miss the Mail’s kaleidoscopic photos of cathedrals and churches
Nancy Soderberg: NI politicians have shown 'abysmal abdication of leadership’; Final prayer training takes place in Down & Dromore; Vicar of Antrim arrested in front of hall full of children!; Archbishop Eamon Martin promotes Rosary Sunday prayer initiative; Gaza conflict costs agriculture and fisheries sector more than $100m; No rush to the registry office by UK same-sex couples; Mother and baby homes were symptoms of a traumatised society after Civil War; Press review
Why Ireland became the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion; Police investigate reports of ‘hate speech’ at Ardoyne music festival; Junior BB 'Living Trees' Appeal is now launched; Kirk moderator preaches at Stornoway Church rocked by gay clergy row; Rectors instituted in Dublin and Cork; Computer and television screens are blighting family life, warns children’s tsar; ‘Football match will help spread the Pope’s message of peace to the world’; Archbishop of York prayer vigil; Oscar Romero; Trafficking; Press review
Live dangerously - diocesan Bible theme; Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s final commendation at the funeral Mass for Albert Reynolds; Resources for Racial Justice Sunday 14 September 2014; GAA player called for attacks on Jews; Giles Fraser: How to rid the world of religious violence; Gafcon in talks with New Zealand parish; Diocese of South Carolina comes under oversight of Global South Primates
A third church is planted in Down and Dromore – and a tree!; Fourteen new seminarians commence priesthood studies at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth; Former Blue Peter presenter to lead Care for the family event in Belfast; Bishop in bucket challenge; Order presses Villiers again for inquiry into Parades Commission; Parades body blasted over single drum beat ruling; Ex-Irish PM Reynolds' funeral today; 1939 Coventry IRA bombing: The 'forgotten' attack on a British city; British jihadis are threat to Christian heritage of tolerance and should be banished - former Archbishop of Canterbury; Dominic Grieve: 'British Christians forced to hide belief'
'Long-term it looks terrible,' says Christian Aid partner in Iraq; Heritage Week review; Remembering Cork First World War dead; Church nearest to Slemish and St Patrick featured; Honour theme for Bible Sunday 2014; Church events and services; Tribute to Canon Alex Cheevers; Press Review
Unionists and church leaders pay tribute to former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds; Imaginative Evangelism: the Church, Culture and Mission - Affirming Catholicism seminar; Conference 'Suicide in Northern Ireland: Research and Realities’; The faith of a murdered war photographer; China warns Pope Francis not to 'interfere' with religion; South Sudanese church leaders: ‘The West has forgotten us’; Multi-faith leaders sign letter urging Iraqi war crime prosecutions; Press review
Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Armagh; Derry City Mission - 75th Anniversary of Hostel Work; Former Irish PM Albert Reynolds dies; Church of England responds to Iraq crisis; Blair’s Iraq War created the precedent that allows Cameron and co to get away with doing nothing; British extremists among ‘most vicious’ in Isis, expert says; Accent of James Foley's executioner prompts a reckoning in Britain - Washington Post; The Pope's war with the Vatican; Press review
Council challenged on boycott call by hate-crime victim rabbi; Kennedy lashes OFMDFM over victims’ funding cuts; The Theology of the Body Course - Belfast; Sailor died ‘doing what he loved best’ , Schull funeral hears; Wales: Archbishop presents radio programme on WW1; Record amount from C of E parishes to fund ministry and mission; Pope Francis ‘deeply pained’ after three relatives killed in car acciden; Press Review
The kosher controversy at Sainsbury’s speaks to a profound problem: acquiescence to anti-Semitism; Newry and Mourne Council backs SF mayor on Israeli boycott; Jobs cut at Healing Through Remembering voluntary group; The Guardian view on Ireland’s new abortion law: no choice at all; BBC News: Irish review into denied abortion - NI abortion paper 'ready by autumn’; Why You Might Be Seeing More Mosques in Ireland; Heritage Week talk on the history of St Paul’s church Haynestown; Another fantastic Kilbroney Adventure Camp; Ferguson, Missouri: Church leaders aim to help rebuild community trust; Veteran Church fighter against apartheid, Bp David Russell, dies; Pope’s personal envoy calls for international action to liberate Iraq; Pope lifts ban on beatification of left-wing' bishop Oscar Romero; Press Review
Bishop of Leeds, with support of ABp Welby, asks PM to answer questions; David Cameron: Isis poses a direct and deadly threat to Britain; Ritchie in plea for British support for Iraqi Christians; Pope says forgiveness key to reconciling divided Korea; East Belfast Mission’s Social Enterprise Hub Opens for Business; Rathcoole centre graffiti removed by Christian group; Malone RFC Thanksgiving service for JE Nelson OBE; TCD Chapel choir appointments
Statement by Cardinal Seán Brady on offering his resignation as Archbishop; Priest defends funeral comments about dissident republican; Belfast Cathedral to host ‘The God Enquiry’ course; Two nuns drown after coastal swim; Church events review; Dublin clerical appointment; PCI Youth leader training; Welby backs future war crimes prosecutions over Iraq atrocities; Yazidi villagers 'massacred' in Iraq; Press review
Beach horror as two nuns die in swimming accident; Priest’s funeral comments disgraceful: McCausland; MPs recall demand over Iraqi Christian ‘catastrophe’; Doctor with NI link heads to help combat Ebola; Vicky Beeching comes out; In South Korea, Pope calls for peace, democracy and social justice; Service at St Marks’ Dundela contrasts despair of war with message of hope; St Elizabeth’s Dundonald to launch Café Church in September; C of E hails the increase in numbers sitting Religious Studies; Nice Christians pave the way for extremists, says Dawkins; Press review
Pope likely to accept Cardinal Brady's letter of resignation; Cardinal Seán Brady calls for prayers for peace in Iraq; Mothers’ Union praying for Iraqi Christians; Judge walks out of Egypt mass trial; Belfast actor in Game of Thrones was active parishioner; C of I Committee On Human Sexuality invites Contributors To Its Discussions; Wales: US female bishops to attend conference as church law changes; Presbyterian Moderator launches special appeal for South Sudan; Press Review
Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to condemn Islamic State ‘barbarity’; Archbishop of Canterbury interviewed about Iraq crisis; 15 Shocking Numbers That Will Make You Pay Attention To What ISIS Is Doing In Iraq; Presbyterian Church Ireland Moderator appeals for prayer for persecuted Christians in Iraq; Forced Israel plaque removal ‘disgraceful’ ; 150,000 pilgrims expected to attend Annual Knock Novena ; Institution at Rathdrum and Derralossory ; Ballymena for WW1 centenary; Library interns active in Belfast Cathedral ; Press Review including Rowan Williams on Iraq persecution
Now UK must join bomb raids on Islamic fanatics, say MPs; Pope Francis to world leaders: ‘stop these crimes’ in Iraq; Pope to send envoy to Christians forced from their homes in Iraq; Irish teenager among prisoners set for mass trial in Egypt; Bishop Harold Miller urges parishioners to fully use, ‘the powerful and peaceful weapon of prayer’; Priest steps aside in Diocese of Dromore over complaint; New Connor Children’s Ministry web site; Canon Hubert Gough marks 60 years in ordained ministry; PRESS REVIEW
The West must face the evil that has revealed itself in the Iraq genocide by Michael Nazir-Ali; We cannot be silent in the face of the slaughter in Iraq - Douglas Alexander, Shadow Foreign Secretary; Vicar of Baghdad: We need military action NOW - Canon Andrew White; Statement from Archbishop of Canterbury on Iraq; Omagh Bomb victim’s father hails ‘therapy’ of remembrance event; Churches in West Africa call for prayer as Ebola virus spreads