More than half of older people in Ireland go without food or clothing in order to heat their homes, according to new report on fuel poverty among older people.
A former priest from Lisburn has been convicted of a litany of sex offences against two altar boys and a trainee priest.
The Irish government is willing to invite the Pope to Ireland, the country's deputy prime minister said.
It is not worth worrying about trying to have a perfect Christmas, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, as even the events of the nativity story were unplanned.
The House of Lords yesterday debated the Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Approved Premises) (Amendment) Regulations 2011. No vote was taken, as Baroness O’Cathain eventually withdrew her motion.
The Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Revd Christopher Hill, who chairs the House of Bishops’ Europe Panel, said on Wednesday that it would be “disastrous” for Britain to become “isolated from the rest of Europe”. He was speaking after the Prime Minister blocked changes to the Lisbon Treaty at a summit in Brussels last week.
Controversial laws designed to stamp out sectarian hate crimes at football matches have been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
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A senior administrator with wide experience of the UK health Service is to be appointed chairman of the restructured board at Tallaght hospital in Dublin. Sir Keith Pearson has been nominated to the board by Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson.
This “is a dark time of the year, and we live in dark times”, Church of Ireland Bishop Michael Burrows of Cashel and Ossory has said.
Ireland’s largest Roman Catholic diocese is facing its biggest crisis since emancipation in 1829, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said.
The first Trussell Trust foodbank in Northern Ireland has been launched in Newtownards by Thriving Life Church with support from other local churches. This is a response to meet the immediate needs of local people in crisis.
The arrival of the Giant Pandas at Edinburgh zoo got the Primus of the Episcopal Church , Most Rev David Chillingworth, thinking laterally.
For probably the first time since the Reformation a Roman Catholic bishop has celebrated Mass in one of Dover’s Church of England churches
Two new ethical investment policies have been adopted by the Church of England national investing bodies following advice from the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG).
A major new project to help churches, schools and vicarages cut their carbon footprint was launched this week in the South West of England.
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The Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Robert MacCarthy, is to retire next month. “I’ll be 72 next March and at my advanced age it is time I cleared off, really,” he told The Irish Times.
Leaders of the four largest Irish Churches travelled together to London to express their 'grave concern' over the impact of proposed welfare reforms on the most vulnerable in Northern Ireland.
Bishops Liam MacDaid and John McDowell keep a Clogher tradition alive.
Twelve years of disagreement between the former Board of Ashton Comprehensive School and the Department of Education and Skills about the patronage of the school came to an end on 29th November 2011 when a new Board of Management commenced its work.
The Vatican’s new envoy to Ireland, Monsignor Charles Brown (52) will shortly be elevated to Archbishop according to the National Catholic Register. The New York Irish American has trust and faith of Pope Benedict.
A senior Church of Scotland minister has called for a more co-ordinated strategy by the Scottish Government and others to tackle sectarianism in Scotland.
A Church of England vicar is facing jail after he admitted conducting sham marriages in Manchester which enabled illegal immigrants to remain in the UK.
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The Revd Ferran Glenfield, currently Incumbent of the Parish of Kill (Kill o’the Grange), Diocese of Dublin, has been appointed as Incumbent of the Parish of Hillsborough, Diocese of Down & Dromore.
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Modern society sets the old against the young in ‘mutual incomprehension’, Dr John Sentamu has said, as he calls for a permanent solution to the elderly care crisis.
The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has announced that the Reverend Canon Dr Samuel Wells has been appointed as the next Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the much-loved church in Trafalgar Square.
This year's Faith Through a Lens photography competition has been won by a photographer who captured the humble beauty of a small church's baptism.