Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF) has called on people to continue to welcome refugees and asylum seekers with love and compassion and has called on the Government to take steps to ensure that work continues to make Ireland a safe, inclusive and diverse country of welcome.
The Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod met in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, on Saturday (17th June) with Bishop Paul Colton delivering the Presidential Address.
Mission and evangelism, local and global, were core themes at the Down and Dromore Diocesan Synod in Dromore Cathedral on Thursday 15 June.
As June 21 is given increasing recognition across Northern Ireland as a Day of Reflection, Corrymeela, in partnership with Belfast Cathedral, will bring people together to St Anne’s Cathedral for the third annual Service of Lament.
St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church was announced by Mayor of the City of Galway, Councillor Clodagh Higgins, as the overall winner of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2023 at a special awards ceremony which took place in The Hardiman, Eyre Square, last Thursday (25th May).
The Rev Canon David McBeth has been installed as a member of The Chapter of St Columb’s Cathedral, at a service led by the Dean of Derry, the Very Rev Raymond Stewart and attended by the Bishop of Derry, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster.
The Rector of the Balteagh Group of Parishes (Aghanloo, Balteagh, Carrick and Tamlaghhtard), the Rev Rhys Jones, led a group of parishioners to the top of Binevenagh mountain, near Limavady, on the evening of Tuesday (23rd May).
The new Rector of the Grouped Parishes of Inver, Mountcharles, Killaghtee and Killybegs in south Donegal was instituted earlier this month at a service in St John’s Church, in Inver, during which the preacher, the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven. David Huss, urged the new incumbent to let hers be a ministry of peace in the parishes.
The Ecumenical Service for Pentecost Sunday in Clogher Diocese for 2023 took place at the former Church of Ireland church, graveyard and ancient round tower at Inniskeen, near Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, on a beautiful summer’s day.
Church leaders from the four main Christian denominations in the North West joined the Dean of Derry, Very Rev Raymond Stewart, in St Columb’s Cathedral, last Wednesday evening, for a Service of Celebration for the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
