Church

Mystery Hong Kong woman gives Irish church 100,000 euros

14 Apr 2013

You could call it manna from heaven, a parish priest in Ireland got the shock of his life last week when a mystery woman from Hong Kong appeared on the doorstep of his church and handed him a €100...

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Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

4 Mar 2013

In their ruthless pursuit of property development, some of our churches rival our developers. This is done with minimal consultation with neighbours and with the full connivance of government...

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Irish PM sorry for suffering of 'fallen women' at church-run laundries

7 Feb 2013

More than 10,000 women were sent to the Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996 where they worked for no pay while the religious orders ran the laundries as commercial bodies.

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Attackers kill 15 at Nigerian church

1 Jan 2013

Attackers have stormed a church service in an area of Nigeria’s volatile northeast and killed 15 people in the latest such violence targeting Christians in recent days, an official said on Monday...

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