The title of the next public lecture in the lunchtime series at St Bartholomew’s Church, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, is Rescuing Genesis from the Creationists. It will be given by the rector of the church, the Rev Dr Ron Elsdon at…
On August 27 the Church of Ireland launched an initiative ‘Let’s Go Tackle AIDS,’ aimed at helping children better understand the AIDS epidemic. In addition, the project will seek to raise funds to assist people in Africa affected by HIV….
An American Dean who grew up in Belfast will return to her roots to sing at the Choral Eucharist and Evensong in St Anne’s Cathedral on September 14. The Very Rev Penelope Bridges is rector of St Francis Episcopal Church…
St Luke’s Church in the parish of Lower Falls, which closed for worship on January 1 2006, is to re-open as a centre for cross community use. The small but dedicated select vestry took the courageous decision to close the…
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, has spoken of how his ‘pastoral heart was tested to the limit’ at the Lambeth Conference. Expressing his first thoughts on his return from the Conference held at the University of…
The Bishop of the Arctic and several of his Inuit parishioners had the chance to experience a very different culture when they visited Northern Ireland this month. Bishop Andrew Atagotaaluk, four adults and five young people all from Pangnirtung, Baffin…
A 23-strong group including 14 parishioners from the Church of the Holy Name, Greenisland, is currently helping out in an orphanage in India. The group travelled to Chennai, formerly known as Madras, on August 1 and will be in India…
The Irish School of Ecumenics is hosting a book launch of “Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland” by Dr Gladys Ganiel, lecturer in Reconciliation Studies. This will take place at 11.30am on Monday September 15 at the Irish School of…
The 54th annual Craigs Quiet Day, sponsored by the Ballymena Clerical Union, will take place in Craigs’ Parish Church, Cullybackey, near Ballymena, on Tuesday September 11. The conductor will be the Rt Rev David Conner, who has been Dean of…
Wedding bells were ringing in St Thomas’s Church, Rathlin, on August 8 – for only the fourth time since the end of the last war. The island was the setting for the marriage of Rathlin girl Siobhán McFaul and Mr…
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