For many people, inside and outside the Church, the deliverance ministry is at the same time both a mystery and a fascination. Not many, including clergy, know very much about it.
Readers from across Ireland came together with bishops and a number of clergy at the National Cathedral, St Patrick’s in Dublin, on Saturday 28th November 2009 to mark one hundred years of Reader ministry in the Church of Ireland.
Delivering his response to the Murphy Report the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr John Neill extended his "deep sorrow for and sympathy with" the victims of clerical child sex abuse.
Bishop Ken Good and Bishop Seamus Hegarty have expressed deep concern at proposed cutbacks to services in BBC Radio Foyle.
Transcript of address given by the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke to the Irish Inter-Church Meeting on 19 November 2009.
The Standing Committee of the Church of Ireland this week (17th November 2009) ratified the response of the Church’s Consultative Group on the Past Working Group to the Northern Ireland Office consultation on the recommendations of the Consultative Group on the Past.
Members of the TRC met with the First Minister Rt Hon Peter D Robinson MP, MLA on Monday 16th November to express their concern regarding the future of Controlled schools in the administrative reform of Northern Ireland's education system.
The Leaders of NI's four largest Christian denominations have written to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to express their concern at present levels of violent crime and to highlight the need for a comprehensive response to this issue from community and political leaders.
Transcript of the sermon preached by the Rt Revd Trevor Williams, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe at the Remembrance Day Service at St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, 8th November 2009.
Following the IMC's Report of 4/11/09, the Archbishop of Armagh today issues a statement, saying, 'It is imperative that further progress now be made to build confidence in the stability and the efficacy of local political institutions.'