Lisburn Police are warning that there have been a number of incidents of theft from churches in the district recently, especially in rural areas. They have urged clergy to be extra vigilant over the Christmas period and remind parishioners to…
More than 100 young people and leaders had a fantastic night of festive fun at the Engage Connor Youth Christmas Event in Antrim on December 13. They came from all over the diocese for an evening of games, worship, drama,…
The spontaneous peace that broke out in the trenches of the Western Front is being remembered this Christmas in a series of poignant services at St Patrick’s, Cairncastle, and All Saints’, Craigyhill, Larne. Focusing on the moment when German troops…
Stimulating, intriguing, fascinating and enlightening – just some of the words used by participants in The God Enquiry – a 10-week course hosted by St Anne’s Cathedral. The course, led by Brendan McCarthy, got underway on October 1 and every…
A young writer whose original prose powerfully engages the reader has picked up the top prize of €1000 in the Church of Ireland’s First World War short story competition. Carys Aldous-Hughes’ story ‘An Inhumane Humanity’ was announced as the winter…
A man who made ‘the vision of the living Christ a reality’ in the heart of Belfast was commemorated by the unveiling of a Blue Plaque at St Anne’s Cathedral. The Plaque remembers Belfast’s first Black Santa, Dean Sammy Crooks,…
Music graduate Lisa Carson will be bringing an all singing, all dancing group of friends with her when she visits her home parish of St Paul’s, Lisburn, on December 14. For Lisa is a singing teacher with the African Children’s…
The Dean of Belfast, the Very Rev John Mann, will launch the 38th Belfast Cathedral Sit-out for charities on Friday December 12. The launch has been brought forward – it usually begins a week before Christmas Eve – to coincide…
Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that £15 million of non-Lottery money is available in funding grants for Places of Worship. HLF say the money was announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, and will be administered by HLF’s parent body –…
A seasonal extravaganza for the entire community on the theme ‘Joy to the world’ was held in historic Lisburn Cathedral on Sunday December7. Co-ordinated by Mrs Heather Gibson, the event told the Christmas story imaginatively through live music and flowers. …
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