Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

A new database recording stained glass windows in Church of Ireland churches will be launched at the Irish Architectural Archive at 6.00pm on Monday 28th April.

Named Gloine (glass), the new database will allow users to search for windows by church or architect's name, geographical location, names of stained glass artists and studios, dates, religious subject-matter and other categories besides.

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The Most Reverend Alan Harper - The Archbishop of Armagh

Those of us who live in Northern Ireland approach the season of Easter having passed through the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of 1998. Although the complete outworking of that agreement is not yet achieved, the progress that we have seen in the establishment of durable community structures and renewed opportunities for community harmony seem little short of miraculous.

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The Most Revd John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin

As the Anglican Communion has developed into a worldwide communion of Churches, it has embraced a rich variety of cultures, languages and local identity. Each Church has usually expressed, as a vital part of that identity, its communion with either the Church of England or the See of Canterbury. This communion has been given visible expression since the nineteenth century by the Lambeth Conference of Bishops, called by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Buckingham Palace has announced that the Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, is to distribute the Royal Maundy in St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, on Thursday 20 March. This is the first time the Office for the Royal Maundy is being held outside England and Wales. In fact, only once was it held in Wales, in St David’s Cathedral in 1982.

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http://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/Information/Submissions/ac_resp1107.pdf

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Cathedrals and parish churches in Ireland will ring their bells at 2 o'clock on Saturday, 8 December, to mark the Global Day of Action on Climate Change.

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Director of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute

The House of Bishops of the Church of Ireland today announced that the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott is to be the new Director of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute.

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Archbishop Alan Harper today said:

"I welcome the announcement by the UDA that the UFF is to stand down and that weaponry will be put beyond use. I believe that this is an important step in the process of the normalisation of society in loyalist areas.

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Preaching on the Church of Ireland’s ‘Hard Gospel Sunday' (9th September) in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette, Canon Ian Ellis, will say that there must be a renewed determination in the international community to protect religious freedom around the world.

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Teenagers from Ballyholme parish in Bangor, Co Down, gave up a week of their holidays to run a programme of activities for children in Ballysillan, north Belfast.

The new Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Abernethy, dropped in on July 25 to join the fun and meet a few old friends. The Bishop was rector of Ballyholme parish for 17 years before his consecration in Connor Diocese in June.

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It was announced today that the Church of Ireland Bishops Appeal has approved an emergency grant of 20,000 Euro for relief work in Darfur.

The region of Darfur in Western Sudan has been suffering over four years of conflict leading to the displacement of over two million people. The latest research published in September 2006 in the journal Science puts the numbers of deaths at ‘no fewer than 200,000’.

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House of Bishops meetings are normally held in Dublin, but in response to an invitation from the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Right Revd Ken Good, their three day meeting will take place in Derry on this occasion, where in the course of a busy schedule they will meet the Mayor, Councillor Helen Quigley, senior clergy including Bishop Hegarty and Bishop Boyce, and many of the local MLAs.

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Annually the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic bishops of Clogher host an open air service which is cross-community. They do so in the conviction that Pentecost marks the birth of the Christian Church as well as heralding the divine gift of the Holy Spirit to the world. This year’s Service is held in Aghalurcher Old Graveyard, near Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh. Worship is led by young people and adults from across the traditions.

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Former Archbishop of Armagh and Church of Ireland Primate of All-Ireland, The Rt Revd Dr Robin Eames, received Tipperary International Peace Award this afternoon in Tipperary Town saying that he did so in the names of parochial clergy of the Church of Ireland and the clergy of all the denominations on the island.

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USPG is both the oldest and the newest mission agency in the Church of Ireland, having been here for 300 years and yet having been re-formed as USPG Ireland. The new Irish organisation will have more autonomy to work with church partners and government agencies, to help develop links between the Church of Ireland, both North and South, and the world church.

USPG is one of the major Anglican mission agencies with 300 years experience in world mission. Working in partnership with Anglican and United churches in more than 50 countries, USPG seeks to enable people to grow spiritually, to thrive physically and to have a voice in an unjust world.

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The House of Bishops of the Church of Ireland, meeting today in Dublin, appointed the Reverend Canon Alan Abernethy as the new Bishop of Connor to succeed the Most Reverend Alan Harper, who was elected Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in January 2007.

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Following the announcement by Armagh City Council this week that former Archbishop, the Rt Reverend The Lord Eames and his wife, Lady Eames are to become the first individuals to be awarded the Freedom of Armagh City, Archbishop Alan Harper issued the following response:

‘It gives me particular pleasure to welcome the action of Armagh City Council in awarding the Freedom of the City of Armagh to my distinguished predecessor, Lord Eames and to his wife, Christine.

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Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland

The Easter message of the triumph of life over death and hope over despair is reinforced for all of us in Ireland this year. We may not have put behind us all of the legacy of a troubled past, but so much has happened that promises new beginnings and a future liberated from the chains of the past, that we are surely right to celebrate with additional joy and conviction.

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The announcements from the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and the President of Sinn Féin represent an important and welcome development in the search for a stable future for Northern Ireland.

Along with many others, our Churches have long encouraged local politicians to work towards a devolved government for Northern Ireland and we trust that this is now to be realised.

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I want to speak of the single most important issue for all of us here, in this island of Ireland, today. I want to speak of forgiveness and reconciliation

I begin - and I shall end – with these words:

I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and for anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to anyone who begs from you; and, if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you.

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