THREE days of tea and tray bake-fuelled debate and decision-making will take place in Belfast this week when the Presbyterian Church holds its General Assembly.
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Northern Ireland is rolling out new regulations making education on sexual and reproductive health and rights a compulsory component of the curriculum for adolescents. The new curriculum will include prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion in Northern Ireland.
At the centenary of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth in 1895, an assembly of a ‘clerical army’ consisting of a cardinal, three archbishops, 25 bishops, some 3,000 priests and 600 students gathered to articulate the triumphalist mood of the Irish Catholic Church at the time.