The General Synod meeting today in Armagh voted in favour of a motion on the Anglican Covenant: 'Seeing that the Anglican Covenant is consonant with the doctrines and formularies of the Church of Ireland, the General Synod hereby subscribes the Covenant.'
Queen Elizabeth II’s state visit to Ireland will be one of the most historic of the many she has made, and at her Coronation in 1953 would have seemed one of the most improbable the editorial in this week’s leading Roman Catholic journal, “The Tablet states”
Religious leaders are hailing Queen Elizabeth II's historic state visit to Ireland next week as a sign of reconciliation following centuries of sectarian hatred and violence, states Ecumenical News International
Wallace Clark, who died on May 8,2011, aged 84, was a charismatic and inspiring Northern Irishman whose accomplishments as a writer, businessman and public servant were second only to his feats on the sea. These included piloting a curragh from Derry to Iona making the anniversary of St Columba's voyage.
Methodist College Chapel Choir will perform at an official reception at the British Embassy in Dublin.
“I was brought up as a strong Anglican and I have always had an interest in Christianity and its history” says Melvyn Bragg in an article in today’s Newletter in which he describes his attempt to present the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
Bishop Ken Good introduced a motion to the Synod which will also be presented to the Presbyterian General Assembly and the Methodist Conference on shared education.
Bishop Good of Derry and Raphoe highlighted current challenges in education in Northern Ireland.
In his presidential address to the General Synod the Archbishop of Armagh posed specific questions.
In his presidential speech to the General Synod today the Archbishop of Armagh pledged the prayers of the church to the governments in both jurisdictions. He also welcomed the visit of HM Queen Elizabeth to the Republic.
GAFCON primates meeting in Africa have criticised the Primates meeting in Dublin, and announced plans for another international conference as well as opening offices in London and Nairobi.
There has been a significant increase in the number of allegations of abuse of children reported to the Roman Catholic Church child protection watchdog, RTE News reports today.
Whether traditional in form or an innovative fresh expression, the common task of the church is to help people to see God, themselves and the world as never before, the Archbishop said at a recent conference in Oxford
The Centre for Social Justice gave the UK Government a score of just two out of 10 for its efforts to reverse high and damaging levels of family breakdown.
In his first book Episcopal priest Adam Thomas asks, can God be found in computer games? On Facebook? Is God with us when we tweet? Is God, Thomas wants to know, online?
A chaplain running a dedicated helpline for gay farmers in England has received a steady number of calls from men struggling to cope with their sexuality.
The Catholic Church is seriously, possibly terminally ill and only an honest diagnosis and radical therapy will cure it, one of the sharpest critics of Pope Benedict XVI, the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Kung, has written.
There is to be an interesting event at 7.00 p.m. at Friends’ School, Magheralave Road,Lisburn hosted by the Lisburn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and S.N.I.P.P. (Standing Northern Ireland Peacebuilding Process). At the event at Friends’ School, the evening will end with a performance by musicians from Moldovia, one of whom is the conductor of the State Orchestra.
History was made at Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral yesterday when, for the first time, the most senior Roman Catholic prelate in the city Archbishop Diarmuid Martin read the gospel at the enthronement of his Church of Ireland counterpart Michael Jackson as Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough.
A documentary about the repatriation of a soldier from Northern Ireland who died in Afghanistan is to be to shown tonight on BBC1. The RIR soldier from Macosquin in County Londonderry was killed on Remembrance Day last year. The service was conducted by the rector, Rev M Roemmele, and the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe visited the family.
Judy Murphy writing in yesterday’s Galway City Tribune reports on how immigrants are revitalising the Roman Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Church has been accused of taking a ‘deny ‘till they die’ attitude to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries, a report in the US based Irish central web site stated on May 6
Bishop Tom Wright, writing in this week’s Church Times commenting on the Bin Laden action, states that thy do, citing Robert Jewett, US New Testament scholar.
The vast majority of Irish Muslims disliked Osama bin Laden because he has damaged Islam’s image, writes Sheik Umar Al-Quadri in yesterday’s Irish Times
Successful independent candidate David McClarty has refused to be drawn on whether he will rejoin the Ulster Unionist Party.
Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson has dedicated his party's win in the NI Assembly election to murdered Roman Catholic police officer Ronan Kerr, the BBC reports
In partnership with selected suppliers the Cathedral is in the process of developing new products which will be marketed under the St. Patrick’s Cathedral label... online marmalade is a strong possibility.
A review of the week ahead in the Church of Ireland.
The General Synod of the Church of Ireland will take place from Thursday 12th May to Saturday 14th May at the Armagh City Hotel, Friary Road, Armagh.
Thousands of faith schools in England could become academies in the next few years, a leading Church of England bishop is predicting.
