Good Friday News

Most people interviewed in a survey marking 15 years since the Good Friday Agreement referendum said they believe Northern Ireland is now a better place to live.

Conferences due to take place in Belfast will attempt to address how to move forward with the Northern Ireland peace process 15 years on from the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.

Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods - within a decade, officials said Thursday.

A loyalist trying to overturn his conviction for a sectarian murder is to challenge the decision to let a later killing feature in his trial.

Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods - within a decade, officials said Thursday.

A Dublin man charged with membership of the IRA has had his bail varied to allow him attend two weddings over the summer months.

Belfast-born David McKittrick has been reporting on Northern Ireland since 1971, He has written for the East Antrim Times, the Irish Times and was The Independent's Irish correspondent for many years.

Thousands of Orthodox Christians in Charlotte will mark Jesus' crucifixion Friday night with a Divine Liturgy service inside and a procession outside Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Dilworth.

More than the swank new eateries in the city center, more than the shops and nightclubs stripped of old bombproof security gates, it's the sight of visitors wheeling luggage that reminds him how much Northern Ireland's capital has changed in a decade and a half.

Police in El Paso, Texas say they will not investigate an abortion clinic after the dismembered remains of an aborted baby were found were in the clinic's parking lot.

Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit gives the Good Friday sermon during the Good Friday services at Most Blesses Sacrament Cathedral on Friday, April 6, 2012.