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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Primate voices concern in General Synod presidential address over domestic abuse In his presidential address at last week’s meeting of the General Synod, held at the South Court Hotel, Limerick from 4th-6th May, the Archbishop…

Ecumenical Patriarch visits the headquarters of the World Council of Churches in Geneva The Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, delivered a public address at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva last week as part of…

Tearfund Ireland’s Naimh Daly visits Syrian refugees in Jordan, says countries bordering Syria are doing most to help Niamh Daly, a staff member at Tearfund Ireland, returned this month from Jordan, which she had visited…

Bid to restore walls at Glendalough Diocese church, a ‘treasure of national and international significance’ The community of Hollywood, Diocese of Glendalough, is uniting for a new project at St Kevin’s church. The church and…