Churches

A Palestinian man sits in an armchair outside a destroyed building in Gaza City on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)

The Church of Ireland Bishops’ appeal provides Middle East aid

Floral tributes to victims of Manchester Arena bombing cover St Ann's Square, Manchester on in 2017, five days after the attack killed 22 people. A victim of the blast was Martyn Hett, whose name has been given to legislation to require social venues and local authorities to have preventative plans against possible terror attacks

Ian Ellis: Churches will need contingency plan for eventuality of terror attack

First Armagh Presbyterian church. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy's Churches: Theological differences over women in the pulpit

St Anne's Church of Ireland cathedral

Churches: St Anne's Church of Ireland cathedral set to mark milestone

Church of the Holy Trinity, Waringstown County Down. Photo: Michael Cousins

Northern Ireland churches are listed for UK awards

Letters to editor

Letter: Sport on the Sabbath is a breach of the fourth commandment

Churches should not simply leave sex education to teachers in the classroom, writes John Coulter, instead they should be prepared to have debates on Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in their Sunday schools, Bible classes and youth clubs

John Coulter: Churches should deliver their own sex education to children

£397,000 was given to help people displaced by the ongoing war in Ukraine

Churches: Huge response to Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal

Moneymore parish church, Co Londonderry Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy's Churches: Presbyterian witness beyond the boundaries in Ireland

The main Protestant churches in Northern Ireland say the Human Rights Commission’s sex education findings are 'paper based only'.

Churches reject Human Rights Commission’s sex education findings

Aghadowey Presbyterian church, Co Londonderry. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Scottish church opens up debate on euthanasia or assisted dying

: Members of the General Synod react after blessings for same-sex couples was approved in a vote by the General Synod at The Church House.

Church of England votes to offer blessings to same sex couples

The Most Reverend Eamon Martin, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland (seated left) says churches could play a role in legacy truth recovery. Also pictured other church leaders (left to right) Right Reverend Dr John Kirkpatrick, Presbyterian moderator, Right Rev Andrew Forster, President of the Irish Council of Churches, Rev David Nixon, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland. Seated (left) the Most Reverend John McDowell, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland

Churches right to seek legacy role but we can't say sorry for what we didn't do

Rev Dr William Morton

Thought for the Week: ‘Churches must be places of welcome, acceptance and inclus...

Letters to editor

Letter: Churches fail to criticise world governments' disobedience to God’s word

The leaders of the largest churches in Ireland issued a joint new year’s message for 2023, which will see the 25th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

Church leaders' concern at ‘fragile peace’
Irish church leaders have voiced their “great concern for the state of our fragile peace” on the island.

Innocent Victims United has made its position clear to Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris

Churches promote false narrative in legacy debate

Slavin Parish Church

Moves to restore normality in Northern Ireland churches after Covid pandemic

Letter to the editor

Churches and politicians must resist pagan values in Northern Ireland

Very Rev Dr Houston McKelvey. Picture By: Arthur Allison.

Churches must keep faith role in Northern Ireland schools

Model Laura Lacole and footballer Eunan O'Kane outside the High Court in Belfast in 2017 where they brought a landmark legal case to secure official recognition of their humanist wedding. Photo credit: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

NI marriage laws to be changed to fully recognise humanist weddings

St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.

Church services to mark incredible life of service of Queen

The Queen at Paddington station in London earlier this week to mark the completion of London's Crossrail project

Churches to embrace Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations

Letter to the editor

Quip on Derry Girls about Catholics in RUC was a disgraceful misrepresentation

Letter to the editor

It seems it is permissible to insult Jesus Christ but not the Prophet Mohammed

Before swear words reached the screen, the Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee, above, and her producers will have considered in detail their use

Churches have bigger fish to fry than worrying about swearing on Derry Girls

Chocolate Easter Eggs are a traditional gift at this time of year (photo: adobe)

Traditions of Easter ... historical meaning and significance explained

Pint of beer

Easter pub opening hours: Churches express ‘regret’ over new rules

On Good Friday last year Christians carry a cross on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which they believe the site of Jesus’s crucifixion. But Colin Nevin says the day cannot be proven (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The observance of Good Friday obscures the day of the crucifixion

Rev Arthur Clarke of the Presbyterian Church

Churches: Faithfulness one of the homely graces of Christian life

Hoy trinity Church, Newmills

Billy Kennedy on Churches: Concern over acute cost of living crisis

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Churches: Christianity in Ukraine is noted for its strength and resolution

Kilskeery parish church, Co Fermanagh. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy on churches: Archbishop Welby reflects on church covid closures

Four nominees for Presbyterian moderator, clockwise from top left: Rev John Kirkpatrick; Rev Colin McClure; Rev Alastair McNeely and Rev Trevor McCormick.

Billy Kennedy on Churches: Four clergy seek to become Presbyterian moderator

Strangford DUP MP Jim Shannon, who broke down speaking about the death of his mother-in-law alone during the pandemic, is a member of Newtownards Baptist church, plays a leading part with other MPs at Westminster on matters of the Christian faith

Billy Kennedy: Churches were closed due to Covid, but those in power partied

Gregory Campbell has made a Westminster parliamentary call to ensure that the impact of anti-Semitism and religious discrimination is never forgotten

Churches: MP tables motion on religious genocide

St John’s parish church, Caledon, Co Tyrone. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Churches: Anglican bishop’s installation is cancelled due to Covid fears

St Andrew’s parish church, Killyman, Dungannon, Co Tyrone. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy on Churches: Congregations invited to seek aid from trust

News Letter editorial

As Michael Palin says, we should beware the threat to churches and their heritag

Letter to the editor

The churches should not be encouraging anyone to receive any kind of vaccination

Rev Jimmy Warburton at the 'manna table' of donated items in Holywood

No questions asked at Co Down church ‘manna table’

Letter to the editor

May I remind our chief constable that the Bible is the back bone of our society

European Commission building in Brussels. It may be easier for the EU to progress its desired path without UK dissent, yet British influence is missed. The Conference of European Churches will prepare a submission for the European Commission as a contribution to the Conference on the Future of Europe

Ian Ellis: Churches are seeking input into helping to shape the future of Europe

Pub laws: 'Lack of deference to Christianity'

Northern Ireland Education Minister Peter Weir

Church and civic groups clash over proposed sex education reforms

Doug Beattie in the Assembly on Tuesday, when he (along with fellow UUP man John Stewart) proposed the motion

We want better church care for LGBT people and protection for religious liberty

Church leaders in St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh. Pictured left to right are: Most Rev John McDowell, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, Rev Dr Thomas McKnight, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Rt Rev Dr David Bruce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Very Rev Dr Ivan Patterson, President of the Irish Council of Churches, and Most Rev Eamon Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland.

Churches: We plead with our political leaders to come together for common good

Keith and Kirstyn Getty

Gettys’ famous hymn ‘In Christ Alone’ was written on back of NIE bill in former ...

Churches will reopen for Easter but Dawn Services are not allowed.

Churches to reopen for Easter Services - denominations publish key dates

This is why people observe Ash Wednesday - and what the ashes mean

Funding boost for churches and chapels

Funding boost to keep churches and chapels in good repair

Belfast city centre earlier this month before shops reopened. Now shops will be closing again, including all shops after 8pm

NI today begins its toughest lockdown measures yet, including a curfew

Letter to the editor

I urge Rev Ivan Foster to reconsider his stance on Baptist church services

Hairdressing and beauty services in NI

Coronavirus NI: As tighter restrictions lift tonight this is what you are ALLOWE...

Tandragee Baptist Church, Co Armagh. Image: Google StreetView

Another church service was held at Tandragee Baptist church on Sunday