There has been a call for an urgent meeting of Stormont’s party leaders to be called over the delay in delivering payments to Troubles victims. SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he has written to the leaders of Northern Ireland’s other major parties to work together to resolve the impasse over the victims payment scheme. Westminster... Read More
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The Northern Ireland Assembly’s vote to reject the imposition of abortion legislation which extends to abortion up to birth for all non-fatal disabilities, including Down Syndrome, sends a “strong message” to Westminster that this is a devolved matter, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have said. Earlier this week, the Northern Ireland Assembly voted... Read More
The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted in favour of a DUP motion rejecting the imposition of abortion legislation which extends to abortion up to birth for all non-fatal disabilities, including Down Syndrome. In total, 46 voted for the motion, with 40 against. A Sinn Fein amendment to the DUP motion was rejected. It’s... Read More
A campaigner with Down Syndrome has urged Stormont to reject “hurtful and offensive” British Government laws on abortion. A major change lifting restrictions on terminations in Northern Ireland was introduced in March. Ministers in Belfast have not introduced local provision after attorney general John Larkin QC raised legal points with Westminster’s intervention. Heidi Crowter, a... Read More
Pro-lifers have strongly criticised the UK Government’s decision to go ahead with imposing an extreme abortion regime on Northern Ireland, despite the return of Stormont earlier this year and the fact that the UK is currently dealing with the coronavirus crisis. Westminster has issued its new and extreme regulations on abortion services in Northern Ireland,... Read More
The Primate of All-Ireland has welcomed a new political agreement that restores the suspended democratic institutions set up as part of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The legislative assembly and governing executive – established on a cross-community power-sharing basis between parties representing both the Catholic and Protestant communities – collapsed more than three years... Read More
Church leaders in Northern Ireland have encouraged their political parties to quickly re-establish their self-governing institutions to stop the British government from imposing a liberal abortion law on the province. Leaders of the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian and other Protestant Churches said in a statement that they were also organising a weekend of prayer from... Read More
A Catholic peer is pleading with Northern Ireland’s MLAs that they “must kill” Westminster’s Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill, “not their future children”. Lord David Alton of Liverpool is also urging the people of Northern Ireland to assemble the biggest movement in the country’s history to uphold the sanctity of human life by demanding that... Read More
The Prince of Wales’ visit to Northern Ireland sends a clear message to dissident republicans that the country wants to move on, the Primate of All-Ireland has said. The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, joined Church of Ireland counterpart Richard Clarke in hosting Charles during a trip to the ecclesiastical capital of Armagh as part... Read More
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James Nesbitt has said it is “scandalous” so much money has been “wasted” on Brexit while special pensions for those left severely injured in The Troubles are still not guaranteed. The actor from Coleraine urged those in power to honour their “moral and social responsibility” in securing a degree of financial security for victims so... Read More
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