Down and Dromore is currently half way through a new model of Confirmation services in the diocese.
The Down and Dromore Youth Team is getting ready to head off to USA in the summer.
The photograph showing the leader of the British ordinariate, Mgr Keith Newton, receiving a former Anglican into the Roman Catholic Church, will be a familiar sight at a number of cathedrals this week, Elena Curti the Deputy Editor of The Tablet writes.
Last summer Canon David Crooks of Taughboyne Parish in Raphoe Diocese took part in two sponsored cycle rides. This year he hopes to cycle from Malin Head in County Donegal to Mizen Head in County Cork in aid of the Donegal Hospice.
Taking it in their stride - the Belfast Marathon on Monday next and the AGM in Malahide on May 21.
The UK Charity tribunal rules against the charity, which wanted to change its objects to exclude same-sex couples from its adoption service
Stephen Neill is Rector of Cloughjordan in Limerick Diocese and Rector of the Church where President Barack Obama's 3rd Great grandfather was baptized! He is leaving this week on a trip to Swaziland with Anglican Aid agency USPG.
Peter Lynas, a former barrister, political researcher and theology graduate of Regent College in Vancouver has recently joined Evangelical Alliance NI as the new national director and will be combining this role with his position as operations director at Causeway Coast Vineyard.
CNI’s pick of the web site links for easy use.
Two Belfast lads are ‘getting a turn’, together with the lads from all parts of Ireland in “The Micks”.
There will be a major service on St Columba's Day and two concerts during May and June.
The Organist and Master of the Choristers, Ian Mills, and the Boys and Gentlemen of Derry Cathedral Choir are preparing to produce a new CD.
The Choristers of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin will be going on tour in August to sing services in Birmingham and Gloucester Cathedrals.
If so then he could become part of Ireland’s largest choral foundation.
Rt Rev Dr Richard Clarke, writing in today’s Irish Times “Rite and Reason” column states clearly that the Republic’s Department of Education and Skills should give proper and reasonable support to the patrons of the 180 or so Church of Ireland national schools into the foreseeable future.
A Derry priest has offered to meet members of the Real IRA, after the dissident group threatened to kill more police officers.
The Vatican has appointed Cork born Bishop George Stack, a Westminster auxiliary bishop, to head the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
In his greeting on Easter Sunday, David Cameron reflects on the example set by Jesus in loving God and loving our neighbour.
Archbishop Michael Jackson in a sermon at Christ Church Cathedral yesterday said: “The first thing such transformation might look like is that other people recognise features of Jesus Christ in our features and in our everyday life.
Belfast born, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, has urged members of the faith to unite against an assault on their values. In a vehement attack on secularism during his Easter sermon he said Christians are being 'marginalised' in society and banned from acting on their beliefs.
Scotland's disgrace is not religious bigotry. It is the unthinking way in which sectarianism is assumed, without evidence, writes Steve Bruce in today’s Guardian. He states that social research data doesn't support the idea that sectarianism like Belfast's exists, even in Celtic and Rangers' home city
Archbishop, Dr Rowan Williams, delivered his Easter sermon this morning at Canterbury Cathedral, where he stressed that corporate property divorced from personal and community fulfilment or stability is an empty thing - People can't find fulfilment in just loving themselves, happiness must come from the outside, from relationships, environment, the unexpected stimulus of beauty.
A Christian electrician who feared disciplinary action for putting a palm cross in his company van has been allowed to keep the religious symbol.
Writing in “The Independent” last week Archbishop John Sentamu states,”In 1973 I was forced to flee Idi Amin's brutal regime. I found compassion and care in Britain. Today, I want to live in a society that holds out the same hope for fugitives”
Both The Daily Mail and The Times gave short measure to the Bishop of Oxford’s proposals in the Good Friday edition of The Times Educational Supplement that C of E schools should change their faith criteria on intakes.
A Church of Ireland cleric who as a former Presbyterian minister left Limavady in the 1980s after receiving loyalist death threats, has said that he is returning to live in NI.
Bishop Harold Miller of Down and Dromore in his Easter message asks : What does it mean for Easter to appear so close to the Assembly elections this year?
Harold’s Cross Park link with St Patrick’s - lecture , Church or Ireland Historical Society May meeting, Armagh, Divine Healing Ministries Day of Prayer,Vacant Sees at Easter
What are you up to this summer? Why not sign up for Christian Aid’s 4:48 Challenge and put the boot into poverty by raising vital funds for their development work?
Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Nicole Cooke has announced support for the Christian Aid London-to-Paris global poverty bike ride.
Church of England schools should cut down to one in 10 the number of places reserved for practising Anglicans, the head of its education board has said.