General Assembly

First Armagh Presbyterian church. Picture: Billy Maxwell

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

Larne were this season's Danske Bank Irish Premiership champions. Picture: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker.

Presbyterian Church welcomes rejection of Sunday football expansion in NI

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland needs to repent of its failure to fully accept into membership people with intellectual disabilities, a former moderator has said.

Presbyterians needs to repent on disability, says former moderator

Rev Trevor Gribben, Clerk of the General Assembly, told a press conference ahead of the General Assembly this week that the current number of 67 vacancies is a larger number than normal.

Why has Presbyterian Church vacancies for 67 ministers?

Right Rev Libby Lane pictured after she became first woman bishop in the Church of England. Ahead of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's General Assembly, John Coulter, a member of the church, writes that the numerous women elders and ministers he's met all fulfilled their roles with professionalism and dedication

John Coulter: Women ministers are dedicated and caring, so why the problem?

Trinity Presbyterian church, Ballymoney Picture: Billy Maxwell

Billy Kennedy's Churches: Presbyterian Church prepares for its General Assembly

Screengrab from the April 2023 BBC documentary series The House of Paisley. This scene shows trouble in East Bridge Street, on the edge of the Markets. It seems to have been filmed after Rev Paisley marched past. Rev Foster says a riot in Cromac Square was under way before the marchers ever left Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church

Rev Ivan Foster: I was at the 1966 Paisley march in Belfast, unlike our critic

News Letter editorial

It is pity that no US deal is in sight but it will be easier to rebuff pressure

A stained glass image of Christ on the cross

Northern Ireland’s biggest Protestant church voices concerns at Sunday football

The outgoing Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (left) Very Rev Dr David Bruce, shakes hands with his successor and Moderator of the all-Ireland denomination for 2022-2023, Right Reverend Dr John Kirkpatrick.

Presbyterians keep finances in good shape

Overseas partners with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at the 2022 General Assembly in Belfast. Left to rigt Prof Zoltan Literaty a minister in the Hungarian Reformed, Percy Patrick of the Gujarat Diocese of the Church of North India, Amon Chanika, Director of Scripture Union in Malawi with Rev Edwin and Anne Kibathi of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.

Presbyterians hear how £1.1m spent in Ukraine

Reverend John Kirkpatrick, Presbyterian Church Moderator

for 2022/23 at Assembly Buildings, Fisherwick Place, Belfast

Photography by Declan Roughan / Press Eye.

Incoming Presbyterian moderator’s theme for the year is 'grace'

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland's Clerk of the General Assembly and General Secretary, Rev Trevor Gribben, says the NI Protocol has unbalanced the Good Friday Agreement.

Church says Protocol has 'unbalanced delicate settlement' of GFA

Graeme Kennedy at Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian ministers: At your service ... and God's

The Rev Dr Samuel Hutchinson

Former Moderator ‘was a man of insight, determination and grace’

Letter to the editor

Lord Alderdice is in no place to lecture Presbyterians for adhering to doctrine
A letter from Ronnie Crawford:

With the easing of some Covid regulations and the opening up of society in general, ministers and elders from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s (PCI) 500-plus congregations met in person in Belfast today for the all-Ireland denomination’s General Assembly. PCI’s Clerk of the General Assembly and General Secretary, Rev Trevor Gribben (left), and the Church’s Moderator, Right Reverend Dr David Bruce, are pictured with some of the ‘Blue Book’, which contain all the Reports, and upwards of 80 resolutions, that will be discussed and debated by members over the next three days.

Presbyterian moderator reflects on how 2020 caused ‘breaking of mould’ for churc...

With social distancing rules next week’s general assembly can accomodate 350 people on the ground floor and 100 in the gallery

Watch: preview of Presbyterian Church's General Assembly

Rev Trevor Gribben.

Presbyterian leaders to meet in person again

Presbyterian ministers take part in refresher initiative

Linzi Stewart from Moneyrea YFC is pictured five from left with her Rural Youth Europe colleagues at a rally in England in 2019

Rural Youth Europe top post for Moneyrea’s Linzi Stewart

PCI Moderator 2020-2021 Rt Rev Dr David Bruce

Presbyterian Church select committee makes significant decisions as General Asse...

Very Rev Professor Stafford Carson, Principal of Union Theological College, said both institutions "have their own distinct confessional identities within a broad Christian ethos".

Presbyterian college to go into partnership with Catholic university after split...

Rev Stephen Dickinson. INLT 14-805-CON

Minister and elders removed from office at Cairnalbana church