Michael McGibbon's widow thanks Protestant neighbours for their support since murder - Nobody has a monopoly on 1916 victimhood, says Primate - Limerick response to proposed changes to Diocesan Boundaries - Girls Friendly Society Meath and Kildare diocesan service - New Scout Troop invested in Holy Trinity Dunfanaghy - Confirmation group challenged by conditions on Cruach Phadraig - Cathedral and choral, News briefs, News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - April 26
The Queen has never hidden her strong Christian faith. In celebration of her 90th birthday, Mark Greene presents ten significant quotes from her famous speeches. Click here - CNI - Focus April 26
Services mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising - Irish language award for Methodist Church’s East Belfast Mission - ‘Amazed by Jesus' at the Kids' Big Day Out 2016 - Change of chief executive at Bible Society NI - First Minister says Missionary Maud Kells is inspirational - Poverty and social exclusion eroding rural communities - Cathedral and choral, News briefs, News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - April 25
Church presence at Northern Ireland events to celebrate Queen’s 90th birthday - Archbishops to concelebrate annual 1916 Mass of Remembrance in Arbour Hill - Dublin and Glendalough Synod rejects proposed boundary changes - A home for everyone must be a human right, Irish Society of Friends - Start of new build Dublin church care home - Refreshed Guide to Methodism Released - A third of Catholic churches across north Wales are to close - Cathedral and choral: Cantata in Birr, Icon in Derry - News briefs: Brexit Bible mural, Flute Band church outreach, Evangelical Alliance intern posts, Ballysillan Church anniversary - News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - April 23
NI army cadet representative at Queen’s birthday celebration - Bishop Willie Walsh to launch his memoirs in his native Roscrea - High turn out for Dublin synod on boundary changes - Presbyterian history focus on New Zealand, Crimean War, Women, war and workhouses - Father Peter McVerry’s new book ‘The God of Mercy, The God of the Gospels’ launched in Derry - Irish Quaker Records Now Available Online - Cathedral and choral - News briefs - News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - April 22
The Queen: ‘A constant in our time’, Moderator - Interfaith Service remembers victims of Brussels attacks - Ardoyne priest praises Orange lodges for ‘generosity’ - Belfast church’s mini-book fest starts with ‘Politics and Peace’ - Hundreds of young Irish pilgrims prepare for World Youth Day in Poland - North West Church Leaders join students for ethical remembering workshop - New Member of Staff for Down and Connor Safeguarding Office - Retirement tribute to The Rev Canon George Irwin - C of I commitment to support Children’s Ministry - Cathedral and choral - News briefs - A prayer for Ethiopia following attack in Gambella - News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - April 21
Presbyterian Church forums on pastoral care of manse families - C of I Long–term Church initiative - New Parish Centre at opened at Dunboyne - Tribute, Captain Sir John Leslie, Bart., KCSG - NI election, Huge flyer campaign by anti-abortion activists - Cathedrals and choral - 19 News briefs - Bishops ask Catholics to pray for the Queen to mark 90th birthday - English and Welsh bishops schedule first National Eucharistic Congress in more than a decade - News links to reports on faith, politics and education. Click here - CNI - News April 20
The Somme : a Wider Set of Reflections and Experiences - Nun from Derry killed in Ecuador earthquake - Over 1,000 Irish advance orders for Pope’s Amoris Laetitia - New inter-church resource on refugees - Presbyterian Church response to comment in media on abortion - Pray for attacked church, Methodist President - Cathedral and choral - News briefs - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
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Millions of careless ticks can be used later to justify the Catholic Church’s near monopoly on the state’s schools, Richard O’Leary writes…
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Click on headline for reports : Pope brings 12 Syrian refugees with him to Rome - Information morning for clergy and church leaders on homelessness - Moderator congratulates President on his 75th birthday - The north’s last clerical principal bows out - C of I Historical Society meeting in Armagh - Presbyterian Church tries to recapture the rhythm of devotion - Multiple fires lit in Belfast Methodist church arson attack - Safeguarding Board launches ‘Child Safeguarding Learning and Development Strategy’ 2015-2018 - News briefs - Cathedral and choral - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
A senior Presbyterian minister has said that abortion should be a “matter of choice” for those in certain very difficult circumstances and has supported relaxing the current ban on abortion, reports Sam McBride.
Irish clergy family meets Pope Francis - Scottish Episcopal and C of I inter-Church Relations Committee s meet in Dublin - Number of same-sex marriages in Ireland revealed for the first time - Former BBC journalist to speak at interdenominational healing service - Tipperary C of I parish hosts Reflections on 1916 - Priest dances his way through Newry for charity GAA event - Presbyterian Symposium on the First World War - Prestigious Award for Connor MU members - BBC Radio Ulster School Choir Of The Year finals weekend - News briefs - Pope’s visit to Greece today is ‘not political’ says Vatican - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Launch of Church Army’s ‘Open Door Lunch’ for Belfast homeless - Meath and Kildare Diocese celebrates meeting "Good for the Sole" target - Stolen stations of the cross by Evie Hone recovered by Garda - Presbyterian Church to email daily devotions - English Bishop who shaped American Methodism commemorated - News briefs - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Chief executive sought for controlled schools body in Northern Ireland - Priest recalls Belfast blitz as church prepares to honour war dead - Northern Catholic church council’s official meetings with DUP and Sinn Fein - Core Skills: Children's Ministry Course - Work of the Holy Spirit focus of Pentecost lecture series - Pope Francis: The Church is not a community of ‘perfect people’ - New resources on encouraging vocations - News briefs - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Pulitzer Prize winner to speak in Belfast church - Concerts by Singing Friar from Assisi in Athlone and Killarney - Derry lecture on Pope Francis and the Environment - Ireland's biggest gospel music festival coming to Ennis - Mary McAleese criticises Pope Francis’s document - Emigrant Information Pack 2016 now available - News briefs - Lutheran Church of Norway votes in favour of gay marriage - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Rubicon 2016 Explores 100 Years of Irish Culture, Arts and Faith - 97 of 100 proposals approved at Limerick Synod - Church Army’s Belfast launch of ‘Open Door Lunch’ for the homeless - Come and sing Messiah favourite choruses in Limerick - Death of C of I cleric who was an authority on the Orange Order - Doing God's Bidding in Maghera - News briefs - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Nobel Peace laureate Máiread Maguire criticises the Easter Rising as "ethically and morally wrong" - Over 300 ‘Street Pastors’ take to the streets on weekend nights in Ireland - Calls for Dáil prayer to be scrapped - New C of I Chief Officer begins work - Renowned musician to play in Armagh cathedral - YWCA Peace and Justice Training - Reprint of User’s Guide to the Book of Common Prayer now available - Seminars on church building maintenance - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
New Methodist Centre opens in Rome marking 50 years of dialogue - Bishop of Clogher elected President of the ICC - Belfast and Derry prayer vigils for vocations - Archbishop Clarke of Armagh at Anglican Communion Standing Committee in Lusaka - Take to the Wicklow hills with Dublin parishioners - Rector who climbed Windsor Park walls to see Pat Jennings win 100th Irish soccer cap - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
An Overview, Five short key passages, Pope Francis’ Prayer to the Holy Family, availability from Veritas, and Introduction from the Archbishop Eamonn Martin of Armagh
ACC16 - Anglican Consultative Council begins today in Lusaka - C of I couple to return to Zimbabwe - Moderator visits Cavan agri college - Life in the Spirit Seminars in Omagh - Dean’s Vicar appointed to Belfast Cathedral - Lay Dominicans Celebrating 800 Years 1216-2016 - Pope’s exhortation today will focus on ‘dialogue’, says Vatican - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Parochial concern at C of I boundary changes - Diocese appeals for calm at troubled West Belfast church school - Moderator joins Ballymena’s Ballee congregation to celebrate forty years - Belfast cathedral service will mark 75th anniversary of the blitz of the city - New Igbo Praise Centre opened in Dublin - Washington and Derry choirs to join in concert - Sun-Up Easter Service in West Cork - Church in Wales bishops stall on gay marriage but issue prayers for after civil service - Pope Francis to visit Lesbos next week in show of support for migrants, says Greek government - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
1916 Remembrance Wall unveiled in inter-faith service - Catholic Church in Northern Ireland and SDLP hold first official meeting - Search for Irish place names of parishes - Message from Pope Francis to Limerick synod - Double celebration at Connor MU Festival Service - BACI’s Spring Lecture by Professor Andrew Mayes - Gaudium Chamber Choir presents Choral Evensong in Donegal - C of I ”Thanks & Praise" hymnbook featured on Radio Ulster - Archbishop of York criticises minimum wage re-brand - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Canon Edgar Turner - Composers' Competition Charles Wood Festival - Was Paul a Lutheran? - Irish Council of Churches graduate student internship - Cork Renewal of Ordination vows and Commitment to Ministry - Methodist North West Synod - Become “apostles of mercy” towards those in need, Pope Francis - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
A curious aspect of the centenary commemoration around the 1916 Easter Rising is the confidence with which many people claim to know the minds of the leaders, Michael Kelly writes.
C of I Commission on Episcopal Ministry did not inform Dublin about transfer of parishes - Limerick’s historic synod opens, first in Ireland in 50 years - Buncrana’s Amazing Grace festival had a wide range of inspiring events - Music in Context, St Patrick’s Lunchtime April lectures - Paul Mullen organ recitalist C of I Cathedral, Armagh - Irish seminarians ordained as deacons served Pope Francis at Easter Vigil - New light on the foundation of Christ Church Cathedral - Belfast Gospel Choir’s Omagh concert - Presbyterian Retreat Centre at Lucan available for groups - Churches unite to support Welsh steel workers - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin comments on the book edited by Greg Daly for “The Irish Catholic”
Irish Methodist leader to meet Pope Francis next week - Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ (The Joy of Love) to be published on 8 April - Presbyterian Church to be represented at 1916 service - Union’s remembrance of Harry Nicholls, ‘Protestant Rebel’ - Major new report calls Anglicans to Intentional Discipleship and Disciple-Making - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
How do we remember a story of the past? The writers of the Midrash agonized about where to begin a story; it is a serious question. Sometimes, depending on the story, it can be the difference between death and life, Pádraig Ó Tuama writes.
Presbyterian Church young adults’ initiative begins tonight - Reporting the Rising: Special Edition of the Church of Ireland Gazette - Methodist Newsletter Easter Art Competition - Mercy Sisters leave Limerick village after 150 years - The book of Ruth is focus for ACC Bible studies - Lambeth's young monastic community hailed a major success - In the global response to the refugee crisis, European leaders are lagging behind - News links to reports on faith, politics and education
I’ll be voting to stay in. I say that to get it out of the way. But I’ve no intention of using this platform to make the case for staying – although some may read what I say through that lens, writes David Chillingworth in “Reimagining Europe: Christian Reflections on the EU Referendum.”