Press Releases
Retirement of the Bishop of Limerick
The Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the Right Reverend Michael Mayes, is to retire at the end of March after forty-three years in the ordained ministry.
The Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the Right Reverend Michael Mayes, is to retire at the end of March after forty-three years in the ordained ministry.
Church in Society Ecological and Environmental Panel environmental magazine Greening the Church Issue 3, is now available for download
The Epiphany edition of the Irish Ecumenical News is now available.
This edition gives details of services being held around the island to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
People in Britain spend over £2.4 billion on flowers and plant gifts for Mothering Sunday: a staggering amount.
‘Hated without a cause’ exhibition
A visit to former Nazi concentration camps has allowed teenagers from north Belfast to witness at first hand the horrors hatred can unleash.
Agherton Parish was the venue for the recent launch of a book entitled 'A Short Catechism of Basic Church Teaching.'
“The Body of Christ has AIDS” – the 2008 Bishops’ Appeal Lenten campaign – was launched at services in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh and St George's and St Thomas' Church, Dublin on Epiphany Sunday, 6th January 2008.
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, went on a tour of Belfast’s Shankill Road recently at the invitation of the Shankill Community Council.
The Archbishop of Armagh, Most Revd Alan Harper and the Archbishop of Dublin, Most Revd Dr John Neill, will be keynote speakers at the Hard Gospel Conference on Immigration, entitled ‘A Pilgrim People’, taking place on 18th and 19th January 2008, in the Emmaus Retreat Centre, Swords, Co Dublin.