The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and the Bishop of Derry, the Most Rev Dr Donal McKeown, have urged the Northern Ireland Executive to reconsider the decision to close all cemeteries during the Covid–19 emergency.
As worship has gone online though computers, tablets and smartphones, Belvoir Parish has come up with a solution to reach those at home who have no access to technology.
Bishop David writes to the diocese in this season of Eastertide.
“I want to wish the parishioners and rector of today everything that is best as they celebrate this milestone.”
Please join us for Easter Devotions as we share a daily Psalm & Song throughout the month of April. The Psalm is from the lectionary readings for the day and is read from the Book of Common Prayer (2004).
Are you asking this question or are others asking it of you? John Lennox, who was born in Northern Ireland and is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University has written a very useful book by that name: ‘Where is God in a Coronavirus World’.
Rich countries have struggled. Poor countries will be devastated. But Christian Aid helped reduce the spread of Ebola and we can slow the spread of coronavirus too. Your gift today will save lives tomorrow.
“I am so incredibly proud to work alongside the Sunday school leaders and volunteers and children’s workers around our diocese,” Down and Dromore’s Children’s Development Officer, Julie Currie, wrote on Easter Monday.
Please join us for Easter Devotions as we share a daily Psalm & Song throughout the month of April.
For Easter Day, St Nicholas’ Schola Cantorum ‘virtual voices’ sang the ancient hymn ‘Christ the Lord is risen again’ (Church Hymnal 258).
