Would you like to bring your choir to sing at Liverpool Cathedral?
At the end of the school carol service, the headteacher of our church school walked to the microphone to give her votes of thanks, on the way she whispered to me that I was on next, to say a few words and to give the blessing.
Twenty-six priests, nuns and lay Catholics were killed worldwide in 2011, with the highest number of victims in Latin America, according to the Vatican’s news agency Fides.
Seeing as how the Anglican Ordinariate has set up shop in his backyard (it will have its headquarters in Houston), The Rt. Rev. Andrew Doyle, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, thought it wise to frame the event with some of his own understanding about what it is and how it might be regarded.
The chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council hosts a meeting on January 4th between the Province of Rwanda and AMIA bishops.
The Primate of Southern Africa today called for President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe to end police persecution of the church there after more than 80 clergy were ordered to leave a retreat centre.
MPs and campaigners yesterday lined up to back a High Court judge and his plans for a pro-marriage pressure group.
Education boards in Northern Ireland have been given an extra 16 days to have their reports on the viability of every school on the Education Minister's desk.
A Carol Service from King's College, Cambridge in 1954 - was televised - in black and white.
Evangelical Christians' music is gaining ground in Brazil, with major TV channel screening gospel festival at Christmas
Why go now? Matthew Telller gives a concise and up to date guide on travel, hotels and sights.
An Anglican priest who recently declared his interest for the governor seat in Murang'a county claims he has received several death threats.
Salisbury diocese has had a link with the Church of the Sudan for over 40 years. The Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Revd Nicholas Holtam, has called for renewed prayer for Sudan after an upsurge of violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan.
Zimbabwean police stopped a retreat of 80 clergy over claims that their prayer gathering was not given police clearance under sweeping security laws, the country’s mainstream Anglican church said Tuesday.
BBC reports - Nigerian Christians will have "no other option" but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, church leaders have said.
A new report from leading UK children's charity Barnardo's says that the most disadvantaged unemployed 16 and 17 year olds are being ignored, with each young person costing public authorities an average of £56,000 over their lifetime.
A senior High Court judge has hit out at couples who ditch each other instead of trying to make their relationships work – condemning their children to the trauma of an unstable home.
The extent of State payments to fee-charging schools will be reviewed, the irish Department of Education has confirmed.
The Ballyclare Male Choir annual concert will be held on Saturday, February 18, 2012 in the Assembly Buildings of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Fisherwick Place, Belfast (Spires Centre).
In 2008, Only Men Aloud entered and won what was to be the UK's biggest choir competition to date, with groups battling to be voted the best choir in the UK on BBC One's hit Saturday night show ‘Last Choir Standing’. OMA were on the road before Christmas promoting their new CD.
A wonderful story of a lifetime of service to the Church of England and the kingdom.
Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg of Greece has served his wife and her country exceptionally well, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards.
Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop to head the first US organisational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Roman Catholic Church.
The chairman of Iraq’s High Religious Council is an English Anglican clergyman with multiple sclerosis. As the US pulled out of the country, he may yet be the cornerstone of Iraq’s future.
South Sudan has stated that it will conduct an investigation regarding the murder of five civilians, four of them Christian, outside a church Christmas day, according to a local media report.
Commission will say helping terminally ill people to commit suicide should be made legal under strict new safeguards
2012 is the 250th anniversary of the founding of Trinity College Dublin’s Chapel Choir. A series of events, concerts and trips will take place throughout the year to mark this important milestone.
The RTÉ Philharmonic Choir and the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra under Matthew Halls will be joined by soloists, tenor Mark Padmore, soprano Julia Doyle, alto Paula Murrihy and bass Peter Harvey on Friday and Saturday, January 6th and 7th, in the neo-gothic splendour of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
As well as recording a CD “A Special Christmas”, Foyle View became the first special needs school to get to the regional finals of the All Ireland School Choir of the Year competition last year, and its rock band, The Plantin has auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent.
Donald Schell writes a New Year message based on the familiar words from an old hymn : Hear us as to thee we pray, Glorying in thy Name today.