This weekend’s Service on Sunday (8th February 2026) on RTÉ One television at 11.00am will be a Choral Eucharist for the Second Sunday before Lent from Belfast Cathedral.
With just under two weeks left don’t forget to get your 2026 Church of Ireland Census returns submitted.
A statement from leaders within the Porvoo Communion of Anglican and Lutheran Churches in Europe, expressing concern regarding the recent statements of the United States administration in relation to Greenland.
“What happens when it rains at your house, your school or your church?”
This question was posed by guest speaker Dr Gail Heffner, from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as she addressed delegates at the ‘Let Justice Flow Like Rivers’ conference in Newry on Saturday, 17th January.
Action to prevent pollution in Lough Neagh can be taken forward effectively and at a low cost, by containing water in shallow ditches (swales) and growing comfrey and willow to soak up nutrients which would otherwise flow towards the lough.
The 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which is running from Sunday, 18th January, to Sunday, 25th January, is being marked by Archbishops John McDowell and Eamon Martin, the Church of Ireland and Catholic Archbishops of Armagh and Primates of All Ireland, respectively, on the theme ‘One Body, One Spirit’.
A full–to–capacity conference of up to 200 people met on Saturday (17th January) in the Canal Court Hotel in Newry, having been organised by Ireland’s Church Leaders’ Group, the Irish Council of Churches and the Irish Inter–Church Meeting.
Archbishop Michael Jackson has expressed support for Ireland’s Jewish community following appearance of anti–Semitic graffiti on roadways earlier this week.
We trust that these will be encouraging for you as Christmas and the new year approach.
