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Tara was an Ulster loyalist movement in Northern Ireland that espoused a brand of evangelical Protestantism.Preaching a hard-line and somewhat esoteric brand of loyalism, Tara enjoyed some influence in the late 1960s before declining amid a high-profile sex abuse scandal involving its leader William McGrath.
Its remit covers institutions in Northern Ireland that provided residential care for children from 1922 to 1995, [3] but excludes most church-run schools. [ 4 ] On 11 March 2022 ministers from the five main political parties in Northern Ireland and six abusing institutions made statements of apology in the Northern Ireland Assembly .
The Iris Robinson scandal, also known as Irisgate, [1] [2] [3] was a political scandal in Northern Ireland involving Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson. She was a serving MP and MLA for the Democratic Unionist Party , representing Strangford in both legislatures.
The Lexington church at the center of a former pastor sex crime investigation was previously involved in another scandal roughly 10 years ago, according to previous reporting from the Herald-Leader.
A priest has resigned from the Soul Survivor church over his handling of an abuse scandal.. Rev Andy Croft said he needed to acknowledge that he has also been “deeply impacted” by the ...
When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the country’s senior ...
The accepted norm in the Irish Church was that its priesthood was celibate and chaste, and homosexuality was both a sin and a crime. [8] The Church forbade its members (the "faithful") to use artificial contraception, campaigned strongly against laws allowing abortion and divorce, and publicly disapproved of unmarried cohabiting couples and illegitimacy.
The Belfast Telegraph was entirely broadsheet until 19 February 2005, when the Saturday morning edition was introduced and all Saturday editions were converted to compact. [11] The weekday morning compact edition was launched on 22 March 2005. [12] In 2015, the Telegraph launched the magazine supplement Family Life. [13]