Promoting online safety Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, has remarked that “children and young people today are either asleep or online.” Added to this, statistics released by the NSPCC indicating a 26 per cent rise in online sexual offences in Northern Ireland over the last…

Mission possible? As eye-catching headlines go, it was certainly a good one. ‘Embrace missional challenge or close church doors Archbishop of Armagh tells General Synod’ was the front-page headline in The Church of Ireland Gazette on 15th May 2015. Jerry Greenfield is the co-founder of…

Global ecumenical initiative on health and healing Convening a range of international representatives and partners in Geneva on 24th May, the World Council of Churches reiterated its commitment to the ministry of health and healing for all people, taking new steps towards a new Global…

WCC delegation on two-day visit to Zimbabwe A delegation of Church leaders, led by World Council of Churches General Secretary the Revd Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, was recently received on a courtesy visit in Harare by Zimbabwe Vice-President Emmersom Mnangagwa and government of cials. The…

ICC officer visits refugees in Lampedusa and Sicily Damian Jackson Programme Officer for the Irish Council of Churches, recently co-led a delegation from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland to Italy, visiting the islands of Lampedusa and Sicily to meet meet with refugees on those…

CTBI not to proceed with bid to host the 2021 WCC General Assembly The annual general meeting of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), held last week at Luther King House in Manchester, a residential conference and study centre, decided not to proceed with…