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Representatives of more than 200 charities came together in Belfast Cathedral on February 6th, 2022 for the annual Good Samaritans Service at which £150,000 raised by December’s Black Santa Sit-Out was formally distributed. Welcoming…

The 2021 Black Santa Sit-out for charities got underway on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Monday December 13, 2021.This is the fourth Christmas sit-out for the Very Rev Stephen Forde, Dean of Belfast, with last year’s event…

It is 44 years since Dean Sammy Crooks stood on the steps of Belfast Cathedral for the very first Cathedral Sit Out in 1976. Wrapped in his black clerical cloak, the press gave him the name which has stuck - Black Santa. Five different…

Belfast Cathedral has launched an initiative to commemorate those across Northern Ireland who have died from Covid-19 and from other causes this year, and to share personal stories from those impacted by the pandemic. Through Lives…

Report by Angela KerrA Service of Choral Evensong was held in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, in thanksgiving for church and cathedral organists, church musicians and the work of the Down, Dromore and Connor Organ Scholarship Board. Each…