Diocese of Down & Dromore

Archbishop Charles Brown, Papal Nuncio to Ireland, to Preach at two Church of Ireland Cathedrals during Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will run from the 18 to the 25 January. Among the various services and events taking place to mark the week this year, Archbishop Charles...

Handover number four!

It started in Bishop Harold’s keeping but now the prayer scroll has been handed over for the 4th time. Pictured below, Revd Chris Bennett (part–time Bishop’s Curate in St...

St Clements takes the prayer scroll

Ballymacarrett has handed over the prayer scroll to St Clement’s, Templemore Avenue. This is the third leg of Down and Dromore’s Year of 24–7 Prayer which began in the Dock...

Recollections of South Sudan – a nation in crisis

As civil conflict stalks South Sudan, David Bainbridge, Tearfund’s International Director, recalls his personal experience of a region in the grip of crisis:

BACI Lenten Bible Study Resource to launch on 20 January in Belfast

For the past three years the Biblical Association for the Church of Ireland (BACI) has provided a Lenten Bible Study Resource linked to the Anglican Communion’s ‘Bible in the...

Some beautiful feedback from the Ballymacarrett Prayer Room

C S Lewis wrote once about being surprised by joy, and in Ballymacarrett, a place he would have known well, we have been surprised by that same joy. 

How to start a year…with 24–7 Prayer

Do you want/need encouragement about our year of 24–7 Prayer around the diocese? Just watch the video below put together by The Dock at Titanic, the first to hold the prayer...

Vacancies closing 10 January