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Pictured at the launch of the study were Mrs Diane McClelland ,research team member; Dr Peter Hamill, Church of Ireland; Dr Anita Gracie, lead researcher; Professor Noel Purdy, head of research, Stranmillis, and Dr Ken Gibson, team member

Stranmillis College study says churches must meet community and family needs

Presbyterian Moderator Rev Dr Richard Kerr

Presbyterian moderator to tour North Belfast churches this week

The Presbyterian CSW presented its report at the General Assembly, at their headquarters in Assembly Buildings, Belfast

Changing face of church's social services

Rt Rev Dr Richard Kerr (kneeling) during his installation service as Moderator by Dr Richard Murray. (Credit Matthew Audley).

Presbyterians hold close vote on climate change

Rev Dr David Allen, Acting Clerk of the General Assembly, was speaking as the church continues to be subject to a significant PSNI investigation following serious failings in central safeguarding functions for children and vulnerable adults from 2009 to 2022.

Presbyterian leaders to consider 'extraordinary times of our own making'

Letters to editor

Letter: Relief at fall of attempt to bring in law on assisted suicide

Worshippers gather for an inter-church dawn service on Easter Sunday 2023 at Mussenden Temple, Downhill (Michael Cooper)

Listed: Where Easter Sunday dawn services are taking place near you

Mission in Ireland Council secretary Rick Hill is encouraging support. Pic credit: Presbyterian Church in Ireland

PCI on mission across Ireland

There are 'high levels of bewilderment, distress and confusion' amongst Presbyterians about the safeguarding crisis, ex-moderator Rev Norman Hamilton said today. Photo: PA

'Bewilderment, distress and confusion' among Presbyterians

The Special General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland which met in Assembly Buildings, debated new management structures in the church. Date: 18-02-26. Photo: PCI/Chris Nelson.

Presbyterians in crisis debate modern management structure

Handout photo courtesy of Chris Nelson of the Special General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, which met in Assembly Buildings to receive updates on work concerning a raft of issues and related matters that stemmed from failings in the central administration of its safeguarding processes, which the Church announced in November of last year. Issue date: Wednesday February 18, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Chris Nelson/Presbyterian Church in Ireland/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Presbyterian Church hit by ‘ecclesiastical earthquake’ over safeguarding

Presbyterian Moderator Rev Dr Richard Murray was speaking at the second special meeting of the church, arranged to discuss major safeguarding failures in the church. Photo: PA.

Presbyterian safeguarding crisis is 'ecclesiastical earthquake' - Moderator

Rev Richard Kerr from Templepatrick has been elected as the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Latest Moderator apologises to safeguarding victims

Rev Dr Jonathan Curry, minister of First Magherafelt church, Co Londonderry

Four nominees for Presbyterian church moderatorship

Rev Dr Colin McClure has been appointed to the Education Authority. Photo: Belfast Cathedral

Well-known Presbyterian Church figure newest member of schools body

Concern has been voiced from Christian quarters about the potential impact of restrictions on preaching in Belfast city centre (Image: Getty)

Biggest Protestant church in Northern Ireland voices street preacher fears
Northern Ireland’s largest Protestant church has added its voice to concerns about the future shape of street preaching restrictions in Belfast.
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Dr Trevor Gribben, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, speaks to the media during a press conference for Presbyterian Church in Ireland, in the Weir Chapel of the Assembly Buildings in Belfast. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Presbyterian Church has ‘work to do’ to regain trust after safeguarding failures

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons is a member of the Presbyterian Church

Lack of clarity around Presbyterian Church safeguarding failures, says Lyons

Rev Dr David Allen, Acting Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, said officials are reluctant to define harm in the safeguarding crisis in order to keep doors open for people who want to come forward. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Presbyterian crisis: Church tight-lipped on exactly what harm was caused

Presbyterian Church in Ireland convener Rev Dr David Bruce today apologised to people hit by the safeguarding crisis, but admitted the church doesn't yet know how wide it could reach. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Presbyterian crisis: Full scale of safeguarding problems still not known

The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland Rev Trevor Gribben is to resign after an internal review found people within the Church have been harmed and placed at risk due to safeguarding failures.

Head of Presbyterian Church in Ireland to step down over safeguarding failures

Supermarkets may be full in the West, but millions face food poverty around the world

Ian Ellis: Churches reflect on how they can help tackle world hunger

Rev Dr Ivan Patterson, 76, served as moderator from 2011 to 2012, being elected moderator in 2011.

Former TV repair man became ‘wise and gifted’ moderator

Launching the 'Graciously Confident' podcast in Belfast this week are: left to right, journalist and broadcaster Will Leitch, who produced and hosted the podcast; Presbyterian moderator, Rev Dr Trevor Gribben; Presbyterian public affairs officer Dr Bex Stevenson, and convener of the Presbyterian council for public affairs; Rev Daniel Kane, showing the podcast on their mobile phones

Podcast series has gospel focus

Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Right Rev Trevor Gibben, has written to congregations in the Republic asking them to pray for Ireland's presidential candidates. Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Pray for Irish president candidates, says Presbyterian Church leader

Bernard Branagan screen shot from video

Grieving father-of-seven now wants to help others navigate the pain

As she launched her campaign to become Irish president, Fine Gael candidate Ms Humphreys spoke about her Protestant heritage and attending Orange Order parades as a child. She also told the event that her grandfather had signed the Ulster Covenant in 1912

Letter: Heather Humphreys is not a true Presbyterian
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Presbyterian Moderator Rev Trevor Gribben, on his recent tour of Derry and Donegal presbytery, spent much time with folk in the farming community

Farming community is 'backbone' of the Presbyterian Church

Sunday worshippers walk to the new £3million Buckna Presbyterian church near Broughshane in Co Antrim. Picture: Gary Millar

£3m church is officially opened

Rose Docherty being cuffed by police in Glasgow on February 19, 2025

NI anti-abortion voices react to axing of protest buffer zone case in Scotland

Presbyterian moderator the Rev Dr Trevor Gribben was at the event in Dundonald

Moderator praises those in charge of church care homes

Taoiseach Micheal Martin (centre) at the National Day of Commemoration 2025 at Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

Former Moderator represents Presbyterian Church at Irish Commemoration event

Presbyterian Union theological college acknowledged the achievements

Healthy intake of student ministers

Ex-Presbyterian moderator Rev Dr David Bruce says that membership, finances and trainee ministers are all in decline and there is less tolerance to its voice in society.

'Presbyterian members, finances and ministers all in decline'

Tandragee man Rev Dr Trevor Gribben, 64, will be the 179th person to serve as Moderator in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Picture by Jonathan Porter / PressEye

Incoming Moderator's 'hope for church in a strange land'

Dr Richard Murray was selected as moderator-designate by the 19 regional Presbyteries across Ireland in February 2024 and was installed as moderator at that June’s General Assembly

Presbyterian Moderator completes his year in office

The moderator, Rev Dr Richard Murray, will formally constitute the meeting in prayer and preach at a service of worship, before chairing debates until Wednesday afternoon

Preparations underway for General Assembly

Helen Waddell ‘ought to be remembered as a brilliant literary scholar, poet and letter writer and translator’

Presbyterian missionary’s daughter was a brilliant scholar and author

Pope Francis greeting cardinals during a surprise appearance at the end of the mass for Palm Sunday at St Peter's Square in the Vatican on April 13, 2025. Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images

Three main Protestant churches give their reaction to death of pope

Dawn services are to take place across Northern Ireland (and beyond) on Easter Sunday. Here the sun is pictured rising over Bushy Park, south west London (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Easter Sunday dawn services the Church of Ireland is hosting near you

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Isle of Man votes for assisted dying, but churches in opposition

Rev Richard Kerr was speaking on behalf of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland on planned cuts in aid spending by the UK government.

Presbyterians urge Starmer not to cut £6bn from UK aid

The next Presbyterian moderator, Rev Trevor Gribben, says the Secretary of State has a 'fatal flaw' in his logic when he claims Northern Ireland has all the funding it needs to deal with the crisis in public services. Photo: Press Eye

Next moderator critiques Benn’s logic on Northern Ireland funding

Rev Trevor Gribben, the Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), has been elected Moderator-Designate of the Church, and will serve as Moderator.

Moderator elect asks people not to judge Christ by church's faults

The two nominees will be considered by the church's 19 regional presbyteries embracing 550 congregations when they gather separately across Ireland to select one of the ministers as moderator-designate

Presbyterian Church moves to elect a new moderator

Local presbyteries now take instruction from the ‘curia’ at Assembly Buildings in Belfast, writes Steven Smyrl

Letter: Church has become dominated by fundamentalists

From left: the Revd Dr John Alderdice, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland; Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell, Catholic and Church of Ireland Primates of All Ireland; the Rt Revd Sarah Groves, President of the Irish Council of Churches; and the Rt Revd Dr Richard Murray, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

TUV attacks 'spin' from church leaders welcoming devolved government

The Rev Dr Richard Murray made a poignant journey to Auschwitz, which is not far from Kraków. With a keen personal interest in the history of the Second World War, the moderator said that nothing could really prepare one for the darkness and horror of the place

Planting churches in God's name

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks at a press conference in Cairo, Oct. 2, 2000. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Presbyterians slam Dublin academic for Assad comparison

Rev Dr Richard Murray will be hosted by, right, Rev Sashko Nezamutdinov, during his visit to Krakow

Presbyterian moderator in visit to Poland

Dublin Presbyterian Minister Rev Katherine Meyer has resigned from the church.

Resigned cleric was found 'at fault' by peers on LGBT events, says church

Presbyterian moderator the Rev Dr Richard Murray

Church makes appeal for Rwanda

The packed House of Commons today for the debate on assisted dying

NI's main Protestant church reacts to MPs voting in favour of assisted dying

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be debated in the House of Commons today. Lord Empey has expressed major concerns that the legislation has not been thought through, with no impact assessment carried out

Lord Empey: Why I'm against the assisted dying bill

Originally the vision of Presbyterian Women (PW), the organisation that supports the development of ministry among women across PCI, Friendship House has a small team with the project leader, a children’s worker, and a deaconess

Presbyterian outreach under the spotlight

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