Eco–Congregation Ireland’s new chairperson, the Revd Andrew Orr, has issued the statement below following the publication on Friday 27 September 2013 of the latest IPCC report on climate change.
The Autumn issue of SEARCH – A Church of Ireland Journal will be out around October 11th, offering a wide range of articles on issues demanding attention in the world at large, the Churches and society in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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The Rt Revd John McDowell, Bishop of Clogher and President of the Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD), joined others in hurtling down a 100 metre high Zip Line near Dunluce Castle in support of the Christian Youth Festival ‘Summer Madness’.
On Sunday 22nd September a memorial to the late Canon F K Livingstone was dedicated in St Michael and All Angels’, Castlecaulfield, where Canon Livingstone was rector from 1983 until his retirement in 1992.
In a wide–ranging address to the Diocesan Synod meeting in St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, on Saturday 28th September, Bishop Patrick Rooke took as his theme ‘where we are now’
The Diocesan Synod for the Dioceses of Meath & Kildare took place on Saturday 28 September. The Archbishop of Dublin, The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, gave the Presidential Address.
Irish Church leaders have launched the ‘Irish Churches Peace Project’ aimed at promoting good relations, reconciliation and peace work at both strategic and grassroots levels across Northern Ireland and in the border counties. The £1.3M project is backed by the EU Peace III Programme.