Ballymacash Monday Club recently celebrated 20 years of friendship and fellowship with an anniversary dinner. The club, which first met in January 1989, was the inspiration of the then new rector, the Rev Canon George Irwin, who remains rector at…
A very happy birthday to Mrs Sally McCallum, a faithful parishioner of St Simon’s, Belfast, who celebrated her 100th birthday on March 2. Among the visitors to Sally’s home in the Donegall Road area was her rector the Rev Paul…
The Rev Rachel Creighton, former Chaplain to Wellingborough Prison, was instituted rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel at a service on Monday March 2. A native of Fermanagh, Rachel comes ‘home’ to north Belfast after many years…
St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is one of six cathedrals included in a set of stamps that has been reproduced in sterling silver by Royal Mail. The stamps, featuring the interior designs of the Cathedral stamps issued in May 2008, were…
Several courageous students of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute had their heads shaved while others had their legs waxed on Shrove Tuesday. Proceeds of the mass defuzzing will go towards supporting St Francis Hospital in Zambia through the Anglican…
More than 220 people attended the first of the Bishop of Connor’s Lenten seminars in St Peter’s Church, Antrim Road, Belfast, on February 24. The Bishop, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, is leading two seminars during Lent under the title…
The February 09 issue of Connor Connections is now available in parishes across the diocese. The Diocesan magazine is a full colour glossy publication, and this latest issue contains a bumper 20 pages. Features include the transformation of St Thomas’s…
Well-known Belfast economist Dr John Simpson will give the first lecture in the 2009 lunchtime series at St Bartholomew's Church, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, on Tuesday March 3. Dr Simpson’s lecture, entitled ‘When the Credit Crunched: Lessons from a Global Economic Crisis’,…
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