The Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, has made the following statement in response to the news of the closure of the Synagogue in Cork.
From 8.00 pm on Friday 5 February, until 8.00 am the next morning, 10 staff members from the Dromore charity Via Wings will be sleeping rough in the town’s square.
The intimate setting of the parish church of St George & St Thomas’s in Dublin provided the perfect space for the “Hidden Pages from the 1916 Rising” seminar at which five presentations on little known archival sources were delivered by the archival curators responsible for them on Tuesday eventing.
The Raphoe Group of Parishes are holding a series of events next week as the Dioceses of Derry and Raphoe mark the end of their Year of Prayer and Preparation and look forward to their Year of Opportunity 2016.
Last Sunday, 31st January 2016, Revd. Capt. Isaac Hanna was installed as the new Archdeacon of the Dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh at a service in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist, Sligo.
This weekend, the Christ Church, Culmore, Muff and St. Peter’s (CCCMSP) Group of Parishes will gather to celebrate and give thanks for the recent refurbishment of their Parish Centre, on the Culmore Road.
More than 220 charities will this weekend benefit from money raised during the 2015 Black Santa Sit–out on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral.
A retired Church of Ireland cleric was awarded France’s highest decoration this week for his role in World War II.
Bandon Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork held a Tractor Run on the afternoon of Sunday, 24th January. About 130 tractors took part and drew participants from across West Cork and farther afield.
The Jethro Centre, Lurgan, recently hosted Halfway House, a drama about 1916 written and produced by Philip Orr and featuring Antoinette Morelli and Louise Parker.