Trinity College Dublin will mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with a series of events across February 17 and 18, including two exhibitions and a two-day theological symposium.  Organised by the Lutheran Church in Ireland and the Confederal School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology, the symposium will deal with ‘The Legacy of the Reformation’…

About 10,000 people are expected to attend the annual Galway Solemn Novena which began this week and runs until Tuesday, February 21 at Galway Cathedral with a focus on ‘Mary, Icon of God’s Mercy’. Redemptorist Novena Director over the past six years Fr Brendan O’Rourke said many come to the novena “searching, maybe for meaning, or…

Pupils from Senior Infants in Guardian Angels’ N.S. in Blackrock, Dublin created a ‘classroom of love’ on St Valentine’s Day. Photo: Anne Collins

The St John Paul II Theological society in St Patrick’s College in Maynooth presents ‘Education in the Catholic Tradition: Maintaining the Ethos and Identity of Catholic Schools’, a lecture by Dr Leonardo Franchi of the University of Glasgow. Dr Franchi is a lecturer in Creativity, Culture and Faith and was head of the St Andrew’s…

St Martin’s Church, Old Bawn, Tallaght in Dublin is hosting a free event called Journey Into Freedom in March to explore what faith means in everyday life and to support people in developing a better relationship with God. The series starts on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm for six Tuesdays and each night a different…

Gráinne McElwee, who previously worked with the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in the diocese of Down and Connor, with her nephew Finn after becoming the newest postulant with the Adoration Sisters on Belfast’s Falls Road.

Stephen Rooney tries to catch snowfl akes on his tongue as he and fellow seminarians arrive for the installation Mass of Bishop John O. Barres as Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York. Photo: CNS

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the nation’s government to help with rebuilding churches across the north-eastern states after a report revealed that at least 900 Christian places of worship have been destroyed by Boko Haram since the group began its violent activities.  Having gathered for a meeting of its national executive…

Local curate Fr John Carroll gives a hand in the kitchen at a ‘pop up restaurant’ in the curacy of Barntown during a breakfast fundraiser for one of six Mayoral candidates running in the Wexford parish’s charity elections, intended to raise parish funds and involve parishioners more deeply in local Church and community life.

Students from the choir of St Mary’s College, Derry, singing at an ecumenical service at First Derry Presbyterian Church during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.