A second Roman Catholic bishop has come out in support of Enda Kenny’s uprecedented address to the Dáil on Wednesday past in which he delivered a stinging attack on the Vatican.
The Festival of Spirituality and Peace will feature some 300 activities in 200 events across 15 venues between 6 - 29 August. There will be top-quality speakers, conversations, performances, film, food, exhibitions, family activities, workshops, art, culture and more. The Festival is now in its eleventh year.
The Ulster Project was founded in 1975 by the Rev.Canon Kerry Waterstone of Ireland. Northern Ireland Protestant and Roman Catholic teens have been coming to the Mahoning Valley since 1988.
The Very Rev. Zachary Fleetwood has announced his decision to resign as dean of the American Cathedral in Paris and to accept a call to become rector of St. Columba's-by-the-Castle, an Episcopal church in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD) Connect Café for leaders at Summer Madness raised £1005 for the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice Horizon West Project which is due to open in the autumn.
Responding to requests for a concise explanation of the Anglican Covenant and the lack of even‐handed discussions of the Covenant from official sources, the “No Anglican Covenant Coalition” has released of A Short Introduction to the Anglican Covenant. The one‐page primer outlines the history and likely effect of the proposed Anglican Covenant.
"The rape and torture of children were downplayed or 'managed' to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and 'reputation'," the taoiseach said.
The Christian Socialist Movement (CSM) has said that recent controversies over the banking crisis, phone hacking and MPs' expenses all show a failure to exercise power responsibly.
Christian theatre groups have put together Olympics-inspired productions to help churches get the most out of the Games next summer.
The Society of Ordained Scientists (SOSc) has announced the formation of an Irish Chapter to accommodate growing interest in the society from clergy and lay scientists living and working in Ireland.
The Guardian’s Riazat Butt has reported that the Archbishop of Canterbury has parted company with his press adviser George Pitcher, a C of E cleric who was a columnist with The Daily Telegraph.
Donations from the UK public to the emergency appeal for people suffering from severe food shortages in East Africa have now exceeded £15 million.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said that God calls us to be his partners in changing a "crazy" world of extreme economic inequality. The former archbishop made the remarks in the UK, while receiving an honourary doctorate from the University of Leicester last Friday.
From wiggly caterpillars and sandpits to learning to sail and making model replicas of the Second Severn Crossing – hundreds of pupils from across South Wales shared treasured memories of their primary school years at a special service for school leavers.
The Methodist Church has responded to proposals to open a casino. Rev Brian D Griffin, District Superintendent Midlands and Southern District of the Methodist Church in Ireland, in a statement issued from Roscrea comments:
A review of services and events.
National Day of Commemoration, Internet - wee buns in Derry, New Methodist Minister gets C of I welcome
Evangelical Alliance will be active at New Horizons which is being held in Coleraine next week.
In an urgent response to the persistent drought in East Africa, the Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal has announced that it is releasing €20,000 to fund the work of Christian Aid and their local partners who are responding to the crisis on the ground in Kenya and Ethiopia.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that church schools should not be used to boost attendance at Sunday services.
A Dublin-based priest, originally from Belfast, has said the Roman Catholic Church in Northern Ireland needs to be examined following the Cloyne Report.
A report published yesterday has criticised a Roman Catholic diocese in County Cork for a failure to report all complaints of abuse to police.
Mike Nesbitt, the Ulster Unionist Enterprise spokesman, has called on consumers to make their voices heard over Corporation Tax in NI. He also urged local business people not to allow their silence to kill off potential changes to the levy. Evangelical Alliance prepared the following article on the issue and issued a call to church leaders and Christians to take up the challenge involved in creating social capital.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin is having a lunchtime food market every Thursday from 12pm to 3pm, starting tomorrow the 14th of July.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday launched an Appeal at the C of E General Synod for funds to help sustain Christian communities in the Holy Land.
The Church of England is to retain its £9 million investment in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the hope that the share price will rise again if all his British newspapers are sold or closed.
The average age of its members is now 61 and by 2020 a “crisis” of “natural wastage” will lead to their numbers falling “through the floor”, the C of E’s General Synod was told.
Entitled "Generous Love for All, Presence and Engagement for the New Quinquennium", in non C of E jargon this basically means facing up to other faiths.
The Archbishop of Canterbury talks to David Hare about taking on the coalition, the atheists – and why life isn't like a Woody Allen movie.
The Church of England is responding to accusations of a "pale, male and stale" leadership with renewed efforts towards achieving greater diversity.