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…
The annual visit to the Shankill by Liverpool FC community coaches made the news this year when the European Cup went missing. Fortunately the replica of the famous cup – last picked up by Liverpool in 2005 – was only…
The days leading up to the Lambeth Conference were as ever busy for the always-on-the-go Bishop Alan Abernethy. He was working up until the day before Lambeth got underway. Speaking as he sipped a latte in his favourite Canterbury coffee…
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