Protestant

In the past month, Northern Ireland has seen scenes of disorder on the streets following anti-immigration demonstrations

Letter: Immigration is a catalyst for change

Both Union Jacks and Irish Tricolours were flown by anti-immigration protestors in Belfast city centre, who clashed with anti-racism protestors. Fireworks and other missiles were thrown. Photo by Declan Roughan / Press Eye- Pacemaker Press Eye

Letter: Whatever the issue, violence is never the answer

'Keeping the Faith' author Alf McCreary at the launch of the book at Queen's University in Belfast. Picture: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Book review - ‘Keeping the Faith’ offers ray of light in an often dark landscape

Orange Order members walking past Twaddle Avenue, close to the Ardoyne interface in Belfast. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Orange proposal an attempt to 'resolve outstanding differences' over parade

Wallace Thompson speaks during a pro-all Ireland group Ireland's Future event at the SSE Arena, Belfast on Saturday. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

DUP founder urges nationalists to engage with unionists in all Ireland debate

Bugler Andrew Carlisle at the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council lighting of the D Day 80 Beacon.Pic Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Northern Ireland honours D-Day with beacons and prayer

Labour’s NI spokesman Hilary Benn, seen above in Stormont, does not share the all Ireland views of his late father Tony. But even so, Labour is not a political movement that is instinctively sympathetic to unionism

Ben Lowry: Some unionists think that Labour will be better for NI, I doubt it

MSP Kate Forbes has spoken openly about her Christian faith. Perhaps it would be encouraging to see more politicians like Kate Forbes on this side of the Irish Sea, writes Thomas Keith

Letter: How can we reconcile the differing strands of unionism?

Wallace Thompson, the evangelical Christian, on BBC One's The View saying that a united Ireland is inevitable, during an interview with Mark Carruthers on Thursday. But why should we listen to him when, by his own logic, he has been wrong for decades?

Ben Lowry: Too much weight given to Wallace Thompson's view on end of UK

Ten men died as a result of the Kingsmill atrocity. The mass shooting took place on January 5, 1976 near the village of Whitecross in south County Armagh

Letter: Unionism must abandon powersharing

Letters to editor

Letter: The Protestant community has lost its self respect

DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley speaking about the murder of 10 protestant workmen by the IRA at Kingsmill.

Buckley: SF silent on ‘act of genocide’

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie says the Kingsmill inquest has not delivered for families.

Doug Beattie: Kingsmill inquest, which lasted eight years, was a failure

Ronnie Funston, shot dead at his farm in Pettigo, Fermanagh 40 years ago, March 1984. His brother Ken says that half-hearted apologies by O'Neill and McDonald for previous republican atrocities mean nothing

Letter: The Provos who murdered my brother are a nakedly sectarian organisation

A snapshot from west Cork, from the cover of Resting Places: On Wounds, War and the Irish Revolution by Ellen McWilliams

Ken Funston: A reminder of the necessity of dealing with a violent past

In the early 1920s Sir James Craig adopted a conciliatory approach as NI’s prime minister. He expressed delight that a Falls nationalist became high sheriff and wanted other members of the minority to take their part in public life. But by the 1930s unionist-nationalist relations had deteriorated

Brian Walker: Craig might in fact have welcomed a nationalist first minister
The election of Michelle O’Neill as the first nationalist/republican first minister of Northern Ireland has aroused a lot of interest.
Brian Walker

Catholic population set to dwarf Protestants in years ahead

An Evangelical Alliance survey found that 38% (160,000) of practicing Catholics consider themselves evangelical. For them, ‘evangelical’ would mean loving and living by Scripture as the Word of God, writes Paddy Monaghan

Letter: Hope for many bridges of friendship between Christians

Bloomfield Auctions managing director Karl Bennett with a17th century portrait of King William III. Photo: Darren Kidd/Press Eye

17th century portrait of King William III sold for £21,500 at Belfast auction

Very impressed with the staff and the care provided at the Southern Area Hospice (this is a general picture of a hospice, not one of Newry)

Letter: Newry hospice loses credibility by facilitating IRA memorial fundraiser

Letters to editor

Letters: With no vision or leaders, unionism is dying

Morning View

Editorial: The Middle East war is now a new political wedge in Northern Ireland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that having a referendum on an important matter that you may not win 'is fraught with risk'

Varadkar: Border poll not a good idea at the moment because it would be defeated

The Caleb Foundation has ‘lobbied extensively’ on the growth of Sunday marathons in Northern Ireland. The foundation works to defend of the sanctity of the Lord’s Day. Concerns are two-fold: the disruption to churches and, secondly, the rights of Christians who feel unable to compete on a Sunday

Wallace Thompson: 25 years of defending our priceless evangelical heritage

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Independent Orange Order founder was dubbed 'a Fenian Protestant'

NIFL CEO Gerard Lawlor. Photo: Phil Magown/Press Eye

Switch to summer football wouldn't affect parading season: NIFL chief

Letters to editor

Letter: Making sense of changing attitudes towards religion
A letter from Dr Matthew Gault:
Letters

Micheal Martin said everybody 'is entitled to have their perspectives on the future constitutional position of Northern Ireland'

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin 'surprised' at NI Secretary's comments

Ian Sproule

Dublin urged to help inquest into the murder by the Provisional IRA find answers

Letters to editor

Letter: We Ulster Protestants have no shortage of people who have sold out

Letters to editor

Letter: Behaviour at parade a disgrace

Letters to editor

Letter: The great need of the hour is for the Protestant people to return to God

Thousands of spectators attend the annual Sham Fight and Royal Black Preceptory parade last year on July 13. Scarva has much to teach us if we listen to the Biblical message. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com

Letter: Scarva is rapidly becoming a carnival, a Protestant Mardi Gras

Girdwood facility in north Belfast. Photo from Google.

Football teams from Protestant areas intimidated out of 'shared space' facility

Letters to editor

Letter: Can families expect Mr Finucane to attend Teebane and Kingsmill?

Morning View

Editorial: Integrated and shared schooling is not the same thing

Findings show young people in NI believe integrated education is the way forward

A peace wall in west Belfast – most young people surveyed say they live in segregated areas

Majority of NI youth in survey want more shared or integrated education

Letters to editor

Letter: Who will read Irish signs in Olympia Leisure Centre?

An image of the development area with city to scale, and right in close up

Major expansion of Londonderry city's Waterside district mooted

Letters to editor

Letter: We have been betrayed by Britain, and failed by unionism

Ballot boxes being opened at the recent council election count in Northern Ireland. The non-voting issue is a societal problem, but particularly a unionist one. It feels like we are clutching in the darkness struggling to know who we are

Letter: A crisis in Protestant identity and faith is behind non voting

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionism needs to be pluralist, not turn voters away from it

Thousands of runners at the start of the Belfast City Marathon last Sunday. The promoters of the marathon, who politely listened to, but then dismissed, evangelical representations against the change from Monday to Sunday, will be delighted that so many Christians are participating and that some churches are openly encouraging the runners as they pass by. Picture By: Arthur Allison/ Pacemaker Press.

Wallace Thompson: Sunday race a reminder that we live amid spiritual weakness

Letters to editor

Letter: I look forward to the BBC reinstating its live coverage of the Twelfth

Eavann Mallon in Belfast, who was born on 14th April 1998, the same month the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Ms Mallon grew up near Dungannon, Co Tyrone, and went to a Catholic primary and secondary school. Eavann said she realised there was still division in Northern Ireland when her primary school took part in an outreach scheme where they met with children from the local Protestant school

Division still present in ceasefire generation, say women born in April 1998

Linfield lift the League Cup trophy after the final at Windsor Park that was played last Sunday. While society is becoming increasingly secular, it is particularly sad to note the extent to which those from the loyalist community have repudiated their rich evangelical Protestant heritage. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Letters: Cup final is a reminder that respect for Lord’s Day has evaporated

Actor Liam Neeson has said he thinks a united Ireland “will happen” if all sides are appeased

Liam Neeson: A united Ireland will happen if everyone is appeased

Some of the groups involved in the St Patrick's Day parades of 2023

St Patrick's Day 2023: The list of flute band parades happening

Tanya Williams-Powell, grand daughter of Thomas Niedermayer who was murdered by the IRA, speaking at Stormont during a European Victims of Terrorism Day event on March 7. Victims feel frustration at the efforts to rehabilitate terrorists. But have gullible church leaders placed ‘jailhouse conversions’ on a pedestal?

Letter: Protestant churches are naive about ex terrorists

Letters to editor

Letter: Protestant churches fail to speak out on how legacy is justifying IRA

The bullet riddled minibus in which the murdered workers were travelling stands at the side of the lonely country road where the massacre occurred at Kingsmill outside Whitecross. Ten protestant work men were shot dead by the Provisional IRA.

Kingsmills shows how the Irish government continues to be evasive on legacy

Letters to editor

Letter: Past religious education seemed to be about rote learning

Kingsmills Primary School Principal Gemma Harrison (in green dress, far right) along with, parents and pupils, who are giving a 'thumbs down' to plans by The Education Authority to close the school in August.

'Closure of primary would impact minority Protestant community’

Principal Gemma Harrison Parents and pupils as The Education Authority (EA) plans to shut Kingsmill’s Primary school in County Armagh in August due to the falling number of pupils and a rising financial deficit.

Kingsmills Primary School: Education Authority plans to close in August