Dame Helen Wright, a leading English school headmistress has strongly condemned parents who permit their daughters to be inappropriately dressed for their age and TV shows which centre on arrogance and bullying.
The Roman Catholic Church is about to buy a beacon of Protestant televangelism.
Members of the worldwide Anglican Communion are being challenged to pray for the success of pending COP 171 negotiations and to sign the ‘We have faith: Act now for climate justice’ petition calling for a renewed commitment to tackling climate change.
The second annual ' Carlingford Choral Festival', a festival of Advent, Christmas and Popular Music, will take place in Carlingford from December 2nd to December 4th, with participation open to any choir or vocal ensemble.
Remembrance Sunday last commemorated the dead of the Great War (1914-18), and of the WWII (1939-45) together with other conflicts since then - including Korea, Malaya, Cyprus, The Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. The sad fact is that there has only been two years since World War II that a UK service person has not lost his/her life in action.
Damaris Trust has released a new resource to help churches reach more young adults.
Free training for youth workers, organised by The British Red Cross on Friday 9th December - 9:30am - 1:00pm.
Sunday 20th November, 6:00 pm in Lisburn Cathedral
Representatives of faith based hospitals met in Jerusalem this week to address the place of health facilities in the mission of the church. Revd Paul Holley, Coordinator of the Anglican Health Network, and Dr. Gail Bray, Executive Director of St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, Houston, attended on behalf of the Anglican Communion.
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church will establish a body in January to house disaffected members of the Episcopal Church, beginning with a few dozen ministers and at least two congregations seeking communion, U.S. bishops were told this week.
St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral—the “igloo” church that was destroyed by a fire in 2005— is on its way to becoming, once again, a distinctive feature on the landscape of Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit.
Pope Benedict XVI will make his second papal trip to Africa on Friday (Nov. 18), visiting the West African country of Benin for three days, where he is likely to address economic justice, peace-building and interfaith dialogue.
Broadcasting this Sunday, Advent and Christmas Carol services
Researchers at Jamestown, Virginia, may have found the site where the first Protestant church in North America was built. Jamestown was founded as a settlement established by the Virginia Company of London in the 17th century.
Former Scientology insiders say the church uses coercive fundraising tactics to feed its voracious appetite for cash. Selling the scriptures, at $3,000 a set, has become an obsession within the church
Absent fathers are fuelling drug addiction, anti-social behaviour and crime among young people, says charity report
Jude Trenier has been appointed as the new Youth Ministry Development Officer (Republic of Ireland).
Bluetree is touring in America with a new album due for February release. Not many Christian music hits are written in a bar in a city in Thailand known for its sex tourism.
Three new recordings have been released, one of them is distinctly Irishand a compliation features the BBC Welsh Chorus, the Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards, Salisbury Cathedral Choir and St John’s College Choir.
Rick Warren, Tim Keller and a number of other prominent Christian leaders are promoting the joys of married sex from the pulpit, reports the Washington Post.
The hardships faced by migrants and refugees forced to flee poverty and conflict is the focus for the first day of the Anglican Alliance’s Asia consultation which opened in Hong Kong, yesterday - Monday Nov 14th.
Currently available on line - includes Evensong from Ely, and Benedictus – The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace (Karl Jenkins)
It almost goes without saying. Of course, Leigh Nash grew up singing in church, but it wasn’t like you might think.
Jim Wallis, bestselling author and editor in chief of Sojourners magazine, makes a clarion call to see the economic crisis as a transformational moment to rediscover values that matter to us.
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church and the Muslim group Al-Azhar have come to an agreement on a unified law for building houses of worship, according to the Cairo daily newspaper al-Masry al-Youm.
The killing of a well-loved priest in southern Philippines has inspired the revival of a campaign to end political killings, supported by international faith and human rights groups, church workers said.
St Columba’s, Derryvolgie, Lisburn, hosted a successful praise evening of music and hymns on Sunday November 6.
This evening, Saturday 12 November 2011 at 8.00pm in Christ Church, Taney, there will be a parish fund raising concert, ‘A Richness of Sound’ presented by the Altissimo Quintet who will play works by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Dvořák.
The woman chosen to lead Pakeha students at St John’s College from 2012 will arrive having completed five years' teaching at one of the most famous theological colleges in the Anglican Communion.
Yesterday the 130-year-old spiritual centrepiece of Christchurch was reduced to an ordinary ruin. And all in the space of half an hour.