This Lent, Christian Aid is asking people to reflect each day on the blessings in their own lives through ‘Count Your Blessings,’ and to pray for communities like South Sudan which urgently needs humanitarian Aid. Connor Diocese has been in…
The Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer, Ireland, has organised two retreats at The Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14, taking place in June. The Witness will be Carol Casey. The first retreat will be the weekend Friday…
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, has described the shooting of a police officer in Crumlin Road, Belfast, on Sunday evening as ‘a wholly unjustifiable and appalling act.’ The officer was shot in an incident at a…
The institution of the Rev Jonny Campbell-Smyth as rector of the United Parish of Ballynure and Ballyeaston, Ballyclare, took place on Tuesday January 17 in St John’s Parish Church. Jonny comes to Ballyclare from the Parish of Jordanstown where he was…
The annual service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity between the two Belfast cathedrals was held in St Peter’s Cathedral on Tuesday January 17. As it was the turn of the Roman Catholic Cathedral to host the service,…
Sunday morning’s BBC Radio Ulster service at 10.15am (January 22) will be broadcast from All Saints’ Parish Church in Antrim. The service will include the branch Mothers’ Union enrolment.
We are currently promoting a number of vacancies including the post of nursery teacher in Luweero, Uganda, a part-time Specialist Palliative Care Chaplain in Antrim, a Co-ordinator of Continuing Ministerial Education and Lay Training with CITI and an Organist and Choir Director…
History was made in St Anne’s Cathedral on Sunday January 15 when the Cathedral’s first Lay Canons were installed. Mrs Myrtle Kerr and Mr Robert Kay were presented by the Archdeacons of Belfast and Down respectively and after the reading…
The Church of Ireland & Methodist Chaplaincy at Queen’s University, Belfast, will be hosting an evening with Mike Bassous, the General Secretary of the Bible Society in Lebanon, in partnership with the Bible Society in Northern Ireland on Thursday January 26…
Mr Ian Barber, who has been Organist at St Anne’s Cathedral for 34 years, is to retire later this year. The news was received by the Belfast Cathedral Board at its meeting on January 12 with both sadness and ‘a…
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