Four Belfast Catholic families have been forced to flee their homes after sectarian threats. They have been living in a social housing project which is supposed to be a flagship cross-community development. People of various religions live there. One of those who fled said police had visited his home on Tuesday night, telling the family Read more
Using an abandoned church in Northern Ireland as a film festival venue to show horror movies like The Exorcist and The Omen is a “cheap stunt” as well as “cynical and crass”, says Belfast-based priest Fr. Patrick McCafferty. The former Holy Rosary Church which will host the movies has been closed since 1980 and is Read more
A Catholic church in Newtownabbey, Belfast, has been damaged in a petrol bomb attack while paint was thrown at St Mary’s Star of the Sea Church on Shore Road, reports said. Parish priest Anthony Alexander said it was the fifth incident in the last year. “I just can’t work out why it is happening – Read more
A Catholic bishop in Belfast has expressed dismay over the scheduled opening of the first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland. Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor, whose diocese includes Belfast, said he is dismayed that Marie Stopes International was scheduled to open a clinic in Belfast on October 18. “The opening of Read more