Parishes around Connor Diocese marked Remembrance Sunday on November 10, paying tribute to the dead of two World Wars and subsequent conflicts. Below are highlights from some of the services. Please send any further reports and photographs of Remembrance Sunday…
Disaster relief efforts are in need of emergency funds after a typhoon with winds reaching 200 miles per hour hit parts of the Philippines causing flooding and extreme devastation. People are being evacuated from severely hit areas. Up to 10,000…
The annual Black Santa Appeal run by St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is sending £5,000 to aid agencies working with all those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Appeal gratefully receives occasional donations throughout the year as well as…
Christ Church Parish Choir, Lisburn, with organist Richard Yarr, Director of Music (right), pictured after leading the singing at Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh on Sunday October 27. The choir, who have led Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral each October…
As the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, prepares for the long journey home from Korea where he is attending the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, he submits his final report from Busan. He will…
Mission to Seafarers, north and south, held their first All–Ireland conference in October explore how they could work closer together. For many years The Mission to Seafarers in the north (British) and south (Irish) of Ireland have operated on a…
A group from the Diocese of Connor will travel to the Holy Land on Tuesday November 12 for an 11–day pilgrimage. They will be led by the Dean of Belfast, the Very Rev John Mann, who led the first diocesan…
The Parish of St Peter and St James hosts its annual sale and coffee morning on Saturday November 30 from 10.30am–12noon. There will be a wide variety of stalls and everyone is welcome to come along and grab a bargain!…
On Sunday November 3, All Saints Day, children from St Bartholomew’s Parish in Stranmillis were treated to a ‘Light Party.’ After enjoying games the children made take–home crafts reflecting the theme of light, and thought about how they should be…
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, is attending the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches on behalf of the Church of Ireland. In his latest daily update on Thursday November 7, he writes: The call…
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