An inquiry into historic institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland is to be established by the Stormont Executive.
Bishop of Woolwich says Government's practice of holding children in immigration centres is "unacceptable".
The Church of England is considering "radical and realistic" recommendations to axe bishops and dioceses as a way of avoiding "wasteful duplication" and saving money.
CMS Ireland members and friends attended a Commissioning Service for new Director of Mission, Ronnie Briggs, at St Paul’s, Lisburn.
In these extracts from his Christmas message, Bishop Michael Burrows of Cashel and Ossary points to the context of Christmas 2010 in Ireland.
Fears for the future of Southern Sudan raised by representatives of the Church of Ireland at a meeting with Irish Government officials will be conveyed to the next meeting of EU Foreign Ministers.
Former UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Sally Keeble has been appointed to a post to strengthen the development, relief and advocacy activities of the Anglican Communion.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has denounced his Church for growing self-centred and arrogant before state-appointed commissions revealed the shocking scale of paedophile clergy. Report by John Cooney Religion Correspondent in “The Irish Idependent”, Monday December 13, 2010.
Representatives of various faiths recently attended the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Inter Religious Council at Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s house in Drumcondra which he hosted with Archbishop John Neill.
Revival 2011 is a Belfast-based initiative to "mobilise the church across denominations for the single purpose of seeing God's revival and blessing come to this nation."
In an interview earlier this month with “The Irish Times”, Archbishop John Neill of Dublin said, “I think that institutional religion as a whole is going to take quite a knocking in Ireland.’ He said he felt his generation “failed . . . in passing on love of the institution’’.
Andrew Buchan (Garrow's Law, Cranford), Peter Capaldi (In The Loop, The Thick of It) and rising star Tatiana Maslany (Cra$h & Burn, A Grown Up Movie Star) have been cast in a magical re-telling of the classic Nativity story which will be televised during the week before Christmas.
What are the challenges facing the rural church? What does it mean to be a disciple in a rural community?