A new Yorkshire bishop will be ordained at a special York Minster service next month.
The Welsh Evangelical Alliance has praised a new church initiative to provide emergency housing in Swansea.
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Esme Macourt, the wife of The Venerable Billy Macourt, former Archdeacon of Down, died in hospital on Sunday night.
The man whose landmark legal challenge forced the UK to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Ireland three decades ago has voiced his concerns over gay rights.
A book “Moving Forward Together: Homosexuality and the Church of Ireland” co-edited by Canon Ginnie Kennerley and Dr Richard O’Leary is being published to assist the mutual listening and discussion in preparation for the Church of Ireland’s special conference on sexuality in March 2012.
The MtS has a new-look, fresher, brighter website – and they wish to have feedback on it.
Personal message from the Archbishop of Canterbury
A mission-shaped ministry course running in Norfolk over the last year has helped people to share their faith with those who are not yet part of any church. Here some of the participants share their experiences.
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In the January issue of “Close News”, The National Cathedral’s magazine, the Dean comments on his forthcoming retirement
Justice Catherine McGuinness has been appointed to be an Adviser to President and to sit on the Council of State. She is one of seven people to be appointed by President Michael D Higgins. This is the second occasion on which she has been so appointed.
Two rectors have been appointed
It is thought to be the first time the diocese is without a bishop in its history.
The Evangelical Alliance event is on Saturday 4th February. It aims to explore how faith, prayer and lifestyle can bring change locally and globally.
A new biography of the Queen reveals for the first time her despair over the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and claims that the Queen’s state funeral will be from St Paul’s not Westminster Abbey.
Anglican monk and bishop, Robert Mercer, has been received into the full communion of the Catholic Church by Monsignor Keith Newton through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
The Templebar Trad Fest will take place from the 25th to the 29th January. Christ Church will play host to four high-profile concerts including The Dubliners' 50th anniversary concert as well as a number of free events.
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The visit by Cardinal Sean Brady and Church of Ireland Archbishop Alan Harper was unannounced, but details have emerged from the prison.
CMS Ireland’s Partnership Coordinator for North and Central Africa, David Gough, recently visited the Society’s Global Partners in the Dioceses of Bukavu, Kindu and North Kivu in DR Congo.
The Wider Circle is running a new series of Steps to Healing programmes starting in January 2012.
A morning for women will be held In Willowfield Church, Belfast, on 18 Feb.
“Care Not Killing” is extremely critical.
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This year’s Black Santa Appeal has yielded a record breaking sum. The 10th annual appeal, organised by St Ann’s Church on Dawson Street, Dublin, has raised an amazing €34,000. This figure far surpasses all other collections over the last decade, which included the peak boom years.
There is a Northern Ireland link with the second of two groups to re-examine the Church of England’s stance on sexuality.
The largest Christian event in Ireland this year will be The 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next June.
The Church of the Good Shepherd, Monkstown, participated in the KJV400 anniversary lecture and Bible readings at the Linenhall Library, Belfast.
Friends of the Boys’ Brigade are cordially invited to the Chapel of the Mageough Home, Cowper Road, Dublin, on Sunday 8 January 2011 afternoon at 3.30pm.