Llandaff celebrates new partnership with Bangladesh - report by Anna Meredith, Church in Wales
Israel opened the traditional baptism site of Jesus to daily visits on Tuesday 12th July, a move that required the cooperation of Israel's military and the removal of nearby mines in the West Bank along the border with Jordan.
Church leaders in South Sudan expressed their readiness to help secure peace, stability, growth and development in their new nation, which was proclaimed an independent state on 9 July 2011.
Young Christians aged 18-30 years are being invited to apply for a programme addressing the links between environmental and socio-economic justice which is jointly organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in the context of United Nations climate negotiations in the latter part of 2011.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE Radio 1 will broadcast the closing service of the Girls’ Friendly Society World Council which was held in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin last Sunday.
Carrick on Shannon Water Music Festival, Mansfield University Choir in Killarney, Exeter Cathedral Choir in Cork
Coleraine, Castlerock, Macosquin and Kilkeel are having summer clubs. CNI would like to hear from other parishes with similar initiatives in Children’s Ministry.
This Sunday 10 July at 8pm in St Michael's Church, Dún Laoghaire, organist Carole O'Connell will be joined by NSO percussionist Roger Moffatt and Anne-Marie O'Farrell, curate in Sandford and Milltown, on pass4sure 1Z0-043 pedal and wire strung harps, for the premiere of Anne-Marie's new work, 'The Lauding Ear'.
The Role of the Director of Music
Christ Church Cathedral has a wonderful music tradition that has been in existence since the very foundation of the first cathedral community nearly one thousand years ago. An integral part of this music tradition is the position of Organ Scholar who will play a part in the musical life of the cathedral, accompany services when required and work with both choirs. The position will be part of a music team comprising the Organist/Director of Music and the pass4sure 140-420 Assistant Organist.
The Down and Dromore Youth Team is heading to Albany Diocese for two weeks and a few days, setting off tomorrow Friday 8th!
More than 250 Catholic priests in Austria are ready to disobey the pope and allow women to preach, the head of a progressive clergy platform confirmed on Wednesday, according to a report on the New Europe web site
The Church of Ireland Men’s Society opted to travel by train for their outing to Derry last month, making use of Smart Passes.
A number of youth leaders from Connor Diocese have received certificates from Youthlink NI.
A recording of Dr. Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor in Theology at Duke Divinity School, in which he examines the nature of emotion, how music might achieve its emotional effect, and whether any of our anxieties about music in worship are well grounded. This will be of interest to clergy, church musicians, liturgists and anyone with a keen interest in music in worship, this presentation addresses some vital and timely matters in an engaging and insightful way.
The programme at The National Cathedral this month includes Peterhouse College Chapel Choir, and organ recitals by David Leigh and Charles Harrison (Lincoln) with the launch of a new CD
The affectionately named “Vicar of Baghdad”, Canon Andrew White, has been named as this year’s recipient of the prestigious International First Freedom Award for his extraordinary commitment to peace-keeping and religious freedom in Iraq.
His holiness has beaten the ABC, Rowan Williams, on to Twitter. But can the infallible one learn to follow, as well as preach?
The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, on behalf of the St. George's College Foundation and the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem has announced the appointment of the Revd Dr. Graham Smith as Dean of St. George's College.
The summer holidays will be anything but boring for children in Coleraine with St Patrick’s Parish Church planning a three-week long Holiday Club.
This year the Mothers Union in Scotland obtained a lunch-time lot at the Scottish Episcopal Church's General Synod in which to enact a play written locally to focus on the need of all church members not only to be aware of the invasive extent of domestic abuse.
The Mothers' Union, USPG and other global Anglican and Episcopal groups are encouraging their members to visit a new Facebook page set up to support Anglicans in Zimbabwe who are facing persecution from a pro-Mugabe excommunicated bishop. Go to Facebook page to join more than 800 people around the world who have said that they are standing with Anglicans in Zimbabwe.
St. Mary's Cathedral Choir, Limerick, are currently seeking new members for the junior section of the choir. Enquiries are welcome. So too are enquiries from choirs wishing to visit and sing in Limerick cathedral.
The Discovery Gospel Choir are holding auditions in Dublin on Tuesday, 5th of July between 5pm and 10pm.
In the wake of agriculture ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) nations meeting in Paris, France, last week - to discuss how to combat food shortage and soaring prices, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written to US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, urging "consideration of the needs of people in developing countries most affected by food insecurity."
The third Anglican–Lutheran International Commission (ALIC) held its sixth and final meeting in the holy city, Jerusalem, between 18 and 25 June 2011, under the leadership of the Most Reverend Fred Hiltz, Primate of Canada, and of the Reverend Dr Thomas Nyiwé, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been visiting the Anglican Church in Kenya to celebrate the mission, life and witness of the Church in the country.
For the second year running, Anglicans in Zimbabwe have been forced to find another place to mark the memorial of African martyr Bernard Mizeki after being denied access to their official shrine.
The CD “Hope is Our Song” features the chamber choir, Viva Voce, with their conductor John Rosser and Michael Bell on the organ and piano performing a showcase of twenty-seven hymns from the recently published Hope is our Song, the latest hymnal from the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust.
One of Christchurch's oldest churches has been deconsecrated after being badly damaged in the earthquakes.