Standing Committee noted that in 2013 the EU single farm payment scheme is due to end and that this might have a serious impact upon farms and rural communities if it was not replaced by a comparable scheme.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin’s call for heads to roll at state broadcaster RTE over the Prime Time Priest libel has received support from journalist Eoghan Harris.
The Bishop of Connor will spend a week in Kenya in early December where he will join his good friend Bishop Jeremiah Taama as he preaches his final service as Bishop of Kajiado.
The parish of Mount Merrion has spotted the potential of a feature window in their building and used it to display a slightly unusual nativity scene.
...to two north Antrim parishes.
St Colman’s, Kilroot, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a weekend of special events running from December 9–11.
24-7 Prayer and Alpha are joining forces to equip thousands of churches for a year of prayer in 2012.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has chosen to write two verses from Philippians for The People’s Bible project.
A poll published this past week shows remarkable support among the public for churches and religious groups wishing to conduct same-sex marriages.
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Sir Jack Kyle was the guest speaker at the recent Men’s Breakfast in Knockbreda Parish Hall.
The Ven Roderic West, rector of St John’s Parish Church, Moira, was installed as the Archdeacon of Dromore on Friday 25th November in Dromore Cathedral.
The first women bishops in the Church of England could be “fast-tracked” into the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said at a conference last weekend it was “amazing” that a Christian nurse in Britain today could be suspended for offering to pray for a patient, when it was Christians who had set in place many of the institutions and public services now taken for granted.
The new Bishop of Durham was installed at Durham Cathedral over the weekend. In his first sermon as bishop, he said that Christians had a role to play in a time of economic hardship blighting the north-east of England.
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Services are being held in Dublin and Galway on Thursday which is World AIDS Day
The PSNI's chief constable has told an Irish Catholic bishops' conference that he is confident of working with "friends in the Catholic Church".
A flower festival held by St Columba’s Parish Church in Portadown has raised £8,000 for worthy causes.
The Rotary Club of Belfast held a Centenary Celebration at Evensong in Belfast Cathedral.
A spectacular exhibition of original 16th Century costumes from the historical series 'The Tudors' is now on display in the Crypt.
Reports into six Catholic dioceses by the church’s child protection watchdog are to be published this week. Report from Irish Times and an extensive examination by The Independent.
The Vatican’s appointment of an Irish American as its new papal nuncio to Ireland is welcome news and reflects the seriousness of Rome’s intent to put relations between itself and this State on an altogether new footing.
Jo Brand has endorsed the Church of England has set up website listing c and Christmas events at the Church’s 16,000 places of worship.
The historic Anglican mission agency CMS (the Church Mission Society) has appealed to its community to pray for the recruitment process for a new Executive Director for its work in Great Britain.
Protesters camped outside St Paul’s have proposed a “Winter Carnival” in which they would walk to cathedrals across the country including Belfast - just across the street from their camp.
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"A triumph for injustice," that was how the principal of the Adair National School in Fermoy, Heather Smith, reacted to the news that an appeal against the controversial decision to axe the school bus service had been refused.
Presbyterian elder and well known local historian, Alec Blair will examine the disestablishment of the C of I in the final talk for 2011 in Ballymoney Borough Arts Committee’s current series of local history talks takes place on Tuesday 6 December.
A wedding fashion show staged in Newtownabbey has raised almost £4,000 - to be split between Belfast-based ovarian cancer charity Angels of Hope and St Brigid's Church of Ireland building fund.