Diocesan News
Clergymen raise over £5,000 for refugee charities by thinking ‘inside the box’
A pre–Christmas ‘Container Sit–out’ by three Eglinton clergymen has raised more than five thousand pounds for two refugee charities.
A pre–Christmas ‘Container Sit–out’ by three Eglinton clergymen has raised more than five thousand pounds for two refugee charities.
Reconciliation is the theme for the sixth series of Lenten Bible studies offered to the Church by the Biblical Association for the Church of Ireland.
Belfast’s Black Santa took up his position on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral as the 39th annual Sit–out for charities got underway at 9am on Wednesday December 16.
As Christmas fast approaches, many families will be anticipating the joy of opening presents together on Christmas Day. For younger family members, this will undoubtedly include the unveiling of long anticipated gifts – a source of great excitement when they are finally revealed.
Since 2012 and the launch of its Archive of the Month initiative, the RCB Library has been proactive in digitising and promoting lantern slides or ‘magic lanterns’. These slides consist of images from glass plates, where the photographic positive was fixed between two pieces of glass and then projected by using a lamp.
The Rt Revd Ken Good, Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, and the Rt Revd Patrick Rooke, Bishop of Tuam, Killala & Achonry, outline the Church of Ireland’s response to the refugee crisis.